The Palatine Emigration. 



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sand. I think it is probable that a considerable number 

 remained in England, until they found employment in 

 various towns. This may be inferred from an entry in 

 Thoresby's diary of Sunday, June, 1712 : " On my return 

 (from Kensington and Hyde Park), I saw a number of the 

 Palatines, the most poor, ragged creatures that I ever saw, 

 and great objects of charity, if real exiles for religion." 



