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those who have extended courtesies in the obtaining of 

 material, and aid in other ways, the author expresses his 

 grateful appreciation. He acknowledges special obliga- 

 tions to Professor Howard B. Grose, for services both in 

 reseai-ch and in preparing the volume for the press. 



The author's earnest desire is that this work may be a 

 means to promote patriotism, quicken appreciation of 

 civil and religious liberty, and heighten in the Americans 

 of to-day a sense of their responsibility to preserve those 

 rights and blessings which, as this record reveals, it cost 

 the Huguenots so dearly to claim and defend in France, 

 and which they helped the English Protestants to estab- 

 lish firmly on our shores. As it was in the seventeenth 

 century the mission of Protestant Christianity to found, 

 so is it its mission in this twentieth century still further 

 to develop and perpetuate, a free Eepublic in America ; 

 and in this glorious mission the French Protestants have 

 their full share. 



L. J. F. 



Boston, January, 1906, 



