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three couditious with respect to religion : 1, To believe 

 that there is a God ; 2. That He is to be worshipped ; 

 and 3. That it is lawful and the duty of every man when 

 called upon by those in authority, to bear witness to the 

 truth. Without acknowledging this no man was per- 

 mitted to be a freeman, or to have any estate or habita- 

 tion in Carolina. But persecution for observing different 

 modes and ways of worship was ex^jressly forbidden ; 

 and every man was to be left full liberty of conscience, 

 and might worehip God in that manner which he thought 

 most conformable to the divine will and revealed word. 

 Eamsay, whose history of South Carolina was written 

 at the beginning of the last century (published 1808), and a Medley 

 who renders due credit to the French, says the early emi- 

 grants were a medley of different nations and principles. 

 Every year brought new adventurers. From England 

 there came both Cavaliers and Puritans, and many a severe 

 clash they had. A colony of Dutch settlers came from 

 New Amsterdam, after the English had taken it and made 

 New York of it, and these newcomers settled Johnstown, 

 but subsequently spread themselves over the country. It 1679 , 

 was in 1679, the year before Charleston was founded on its Established 

 present site, that the French refugees reached Carolina to 

 stay. King Charles II was the direct means of their 

 coming. He saw the value of skilled labour to the 

 new colonies, and ordered two small vessels to be 

 provided at his own expense to transport to Carolina 

 a company of the foreign Protestants, who had found ref- 

 uge in his realm, who proposed to raise wine, oil, silk, 

 and other products of the south. " Though they did not 

 succeed in enriching the country with these valuable 

 commodities," says the historian, ''their descendants 

 form a part of the present inhabitants." 



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Then came the Eevocation of the Edict of Nantes, 

 fifteen years after the settlement of Carolina, and this be- 



