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The Palatine Emigration. 



They still continued to come to the middle of October, 

 although the orders to Mr. Dayrolle to hinder their coming 

 were often repeated. And the states-general of Holland 

 was applied to, to send similar instructions to hinder the 

 coming of any more of the elector Palatine's subjects in 

 this manner, who was highly offended at their desertion 

 of his territory. 



Upon this, Mr. Dayrolle wrote that these people were 

 encouraged to come by somebody in England, that since 

 the prohibition, a gentleman from England with his ser- 

 vant, whose name he had in vain endeavored to learn, had 

 gone among the Palatines at the Brill near Kotterdam, and 

 distributed money and printed-tickets among them to en- 

 courage them to come over. But the committee found 

 that Mr. Henry Torne, a Quaker at Rotterdam (who in all 

 this matter acted under Mr. Dayrolle), forced a great many 

 to embark for England, after they had provided themselves 

 a passage to go back to their own country. The preced- 

 ing paragraphs are chiefly a condensation from the report. 



Having come to England, they must be provided for. 

 Fourteen hundred were accommodated in the warehouses 

 of Sir Charles Cox for some months gratis, some were 

 lodged in private houses, others were allowed to lodge 

 in barns, till midsummer, when the barns would be needed 

 for the crops. The queen ordered, therefore, a thousand 

 tents from the Tower of London for their use, but for a 

 long time no place could be found to pitch them. They 

 were finally encamped at Blackheath near Greenwich south 

 of the Thames, and at Camberwell, and temporary provi- 

 sion was made for their daily sustenance. 



Besides feeding and sheltering them the English showed 

 great interest in their religious character and welfare, some, 

 lest if they should stay in England they might increase the 

 dissenting interest, and others, for the sake of additions 

 to the established church. Many of the Catholics, being 



