XXU INTRODUCTION-. 



streaming over to Britain, and it is interesting to 

 hear what a friend of Leguat, writing at this period 

 (1697-1698), says on this subject. M. Henri de 

 Valbourg Misson (not Maximilien Misson, whose 

 connection with Leguat will afterwards be discussed) 

 writes : 



" The French Protestants that fled into England are so 

 spread over the whole Country, that it is impossible to be 

 certain or so much as guess at their Number. Besides the 

 eleven Eegiments which are wholly made up of them, there are 

 some in all the other Troops. A vast many of both Sexes 

 are gone into Service in various English Families ; so that 

 there is scarce any considerable House, where you may not 

 find some of our ISTation. Many have set up Manufactures 

 in the Country and Churches at the same time : Abundance 

 went to Scotland and Ireland, to Jersey and Garnsey. At 

 l^resent there are Two and twenty French Churches in 

 London, aud about a Hundred Ministers, that are in the Pay 

 of the State, without reckoning those that are arriv'd at other 

 Means of subsisting." (M, Misson's Memoirs and Observations 

 in his Travels over England (1697-98), Written originally in 

 French, and translated by Mr. Ozell, 1719.) 



Among others of his compatriots Leguat now 

 migrated from Holland to England, where he seems 

 to have settled for the remainder of hiy life. He 

 was about sixty years old, but it was not until 1708, 

 when he was a septuagenarian, that the manuscript 

 of his Relation was printed and published in London, 

 in French and English simultaneously, whilst a 

 French edition was published in Amsterdam,^ and 



1 Original French Title : — " Voyages et aventures de Fran9ois 

 Leguat et de ses compagnons en deux isles desertes des Indes 

 Orientales. Avec la relation des choses les plus remarqnables 

 qn'ils out observecs dans I'isle Maurice, u Batavia, au Cap dc 



