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Emigration* and its Causes 



Rumania, and Germany. Unfortunately these were 

 mainly of the destitute class and settled in the East 

 End of London. 



The Flemings, a most admirable body of aliens, 

 settled in England in Plantagenet times and introduced 

 the woollen industry ; and the Huguenots, from France, 

 in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries brought 



Italian Quarter, Hatton Garden, London 



over the silk industry to enrich our country. In 

 Tudor times skilled Italian artisans came to England 

 and did much to improve the decoration of our public 

 buildings. The Dutch sent us their engineers in 

 Stuart times to embank our sea-coasts and drain our 

 fens ; and during the closing years of the eighteenth 

 century many of the French fugitives sought our 



