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by the decay ef the worfied manufaGure, 
which was now at fo low an ebb that 
many were forced to leave their houfes 
and go into the country to get their 
bread,’’ the mayor, fheriffs, &c, waited 
on the Duke of Norfolk then at his palace . 
in the city, for the purpele of coniulting 
with him, how they might remove it, 
‘They witely refolved ** to invite divers 
firangers ofthe Low Countries which were 
now come to London ana Sandwich.’—I 
am uling the words of Blomieid—* for re- 
fuge from the perfecution then raifed 
againit. them by the power of the Duke 
of Alva, principal tor the king of Spain ; 
which flrangers had obtained licence from 
the queen* te exercife the making of Fian- 
ders commodities of wool in her ma- 
jefty’s dominions.”” The coniequence oi 
this application was, that letters patent 
were granted, “for the placing of 30 
maiter workmen, each of them to have 
to fervants, being in all 330 Dutch and 
Wallconst who came to Norwich and 
fet upthe making of bayes, fayes, arras, 
mockades, and fuch. like, which 
im- 
bog Eo cu cidint ODDEN SEMhY, 
and country grewirich {.°> The Dutch 
coneregation had the choir of the Fiters 
i + x a 7 : 
preaccers, church afiigned them ier their 
religious affemblies: they ufed it by. 
leave till the year 1519 and then it wes 
leafed to them at fix fhillings and eight- 
pence per annum. : Dutch cen- 
gregation hada renewal of their leate en 
the 15th of June 1713, for'20e years, on 
the fame terms as before. ‘The French 
church, like the Dutch, was, tll the ge- 
neral dificlution ef monaferies by Henry 
the eighth, the property cfaconvent. 
‘The French congrega muft, no 
5 
doubt, have encreafed. verz confider- 
soars . 1° } f c. : 7 >UT 
ably, immediately after Lonis XIV. 
ai 2 ia oe f eee 
revoked the edi€t or Nantz; but notwith- 
fianding that memorabie event is of” 
mecdern cate, the families which emigrated 
the defcent of them is only 
by their patronymics. 
-formed in beth thefe- churches by the 
Ido hate, Mr. Editor, to hear fuch 
*Elizabeth. 4 a 
+ *S Norwich Roll.” q 
}The flrangers encreafed fo rapidly, that 
in the yeay 1572 the number of themin th 
ity Was 3« 
Bion. eld, 
jj Phe Church of 
i 
the Monat 

i << St. Mary the Lefs, at 
ery gates,” 
Sketch of ihe State of Society in Norwich, 
= =- 
[May 
charaéters as thofe of Philip, and Duke 
Alva, vilified and infuited by the tame 
tender-hearted politicians of this day, 
Short-fighted beings! do they not know 
that almoft all the European manuiactories 
received a moft extenfive diffulion from 
the meafures which thefe very men, 
prompted, nodoubt, by the keenelt wifdom 
and the nobleft policy, purfued ?. -Philip 
inherited from his father, Charles the 
Fifth, an implacable antipathy againft 
the Lutherans; and to extirpate the 
proteftant religion from his dominions 
was the object of his moft ardent ambi 
tion. But religion and its profeflors muft 
ftand and fall together: during the firft 
year only ot Alva’s vigorous, ‘* juft, and 
neceflary’’ adminiltration in the Nether- 
lands, upwards of a hundred thoufand 
be 
, under the fagacious aufpices of 
Elizabeth: hither they imported their 
fuperior {kill and indufiry m the woclen 
manutactories ; “thofe fine ones of Wilt- 
ment of thefe, now become unrivalled, 
introduced varicus coliateral branches 
mere or lefs conne€ted with them*. If 
I were difpoted to digreis ftill farther 
y enlarging on the beneficial confequences 
cf whatitis the faihion to call perfecu- 
tion, I could tell thefe timid politicians, 
that when Louis the fourteenth revoked the 
edigt of Nantz, about half a million of 
fubje&is deferted France and carried their 
arts and manufactories imto various 
countries which kaye been enriched by 
them: Engiand is indebted to the revo- 
cation ef that ediét for its Spitalfields 
colgny. 
As it is with manufattories, fo it is 
empire in the eait, many of the learned 
Greeks fought fhelter under the aufpices of 
Cofmo de” Medici, and became prefeffors 
of that languagein Florence. A {fpirit of 
emulation was excited between them and 
the Italian proteffors, and thus the efforts 
of each contributed to diffufe the {ciencef. 
Can there be any doubt but that the 

*Millar on the Englifh Government, B. ii, 
ch. viii. 
qT Rofcoe’s Life of Lorenzo de? Medici. 
: French 
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