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make anything like a Pillar ; but having a small piece of 

 Vellom which may last as long as Brass, if 'twas kept in the 

 Vial I have spoke of, I made a Draught of a Pillar after my 

 Way ; on the top I plac'd the Cross and Thorns of our 

 Tribulations, wrote our Names^ on one side, and these words 



on the other : 



" We are some of those 

 Hundreds of Thoiisauds 

 To whom Wings have been given 

 To 

 Escape the furious Dragoons- 

 country into Egypt, and finding no room there, went on into Africa, 

 where they built many cities and possessed it all unto the Pillars of 

 Hercules, and to this day contiuue there, using the Phoenician language. 

 " In Numidia they built a castle where now is the citie of Tigisis. In 

 which stand two pillars near the great conduit, with these words 

 engraven in the Phoenician language : We are they u-ho fled lefore 

 Joshua the chiefs the son of Nun." (Holcroft's translation of Procopius' 

 history, 1653 ; The Vandal Wars^ p. 36.) 



1 The names appear as folloMS : — Franciscus Leguat ; Paulus 

 Be***le ; Jacobus de la Case ; Joannes Testard ; Isaacus Boyer : 

 Joannes de la Haye ; Robertus Anselin ; Petrus Thomas ; Isaacus 

 Boyer Mundo Valedicens Ad Celestem Patriam abiit Maj. D. 8 A. 

 1693. 



2 "The following inscription'' (writes Max. Misson, dating from 

 Strasburg, July 22, 1688) " was lately placed over the Gate of the 

 ATanufactory Hall, at Bern, the capital city of the most potent Canton 

 among the Swiss : — 



" ' Tempore quo crassa Clericorum ignorantia, cum gratia &. privilegio 

 Begis in verum Dei cultum fureret, atque Draconuh opera nos quos 

 Huguenotos vocant, ferro flamma, & omnis generis cruce e regno 

 pelleret, siij^remus Magistratus cruderibus Cinobii, olim Prsedicatorium 

 has sedes exstruxit, ut pietatem simul & artem Gallic exulantes 

 hospitalibus tectis exciperat ; Fanit Deus T. O. M. ut charitatis hoc 

 Opificium situri cremeuto patriae.' 



" This Inscription being, as I am informed, remov'd from thence in 

 1692" [this is a subsequent addition by Max. Misson in his translation 

 of the original letters] " at the request of the French Ambassadour, I 

 can't omit to give you a translation of it : 



•' ' 'V^'hen the blind Ignorance of the Clergy, supported by the King's 

 Favour and Authority, did exert its Rage against the true Worship of 

 God, and by the force of Dragoons with fire and sword and all manner 



