The Palatine Emigration. 



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delivered them ; and on the 24th of February the com- 

 mittee made the report in question. 1 On the 14th day of 

 April, 1711, the commons proceeded to take into consi- 

 deration the report from the committee on the petition of 

 the parish of St. Olaves. 



The substance of the report was that it appeared from 

 testimony and documents, and from examination of many 

 of the Palatines, that the motives which induced them to 

 leave their native country were books and papers dispersed 

 among them, with the queen's picture before the books 

 and the title page in letters of gold, to encourage them to 

 come to England in order to be sent to Carolina or other 

 her majesty's plantations, to be settleS there. 



In 1709, great numbers of them came down the Rhine 

 to Rotterdam ; upon their first arrival there they were sub- 

 sisted by the charity of Rotterdam, but afterwards at the 

 queen's expense, and transports and other ships were pro- 

 vided at her majesty's charge to bring them to England ; 

 and all sorts of necessaries. As by June, 1709, the number 

 had reached over ten thousand, Mr. Secretary Boyle sent 

 orders to hinder any more being sent, till those already 

 come should have been provided for and dispersed, with 

 due care for their future maintenance, so that the success 

 of the whole matter might happen thereby to be disap- 

 pointed. And accordingly advertisements were published 

 in the Dutch Gazettes that no more of them should be trans- 

 ported for England. 



Still, after this, Mr. Dayrolle, her majesty's secretary at 

 the Hague, sent near three thousand ; and others were em- 

 barked and provided with necessaries by the people of 

 Rotterdam, the magistrates of that town not suffering them 

 to come into it; by which means they were reduced to 

 great misery. 



1 Journals of House of Common*, 1711. 

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