David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ And in the Charter whereby a man is made Denison, there is commonly contained some one clause or other, that abridges him of that full benefit which natural subjects do injoy. Now, when a man is thus infranchised he is said to be under the king’s protection; before which time he can enjoy nothing in England, nay, he and his goods might be seized to the king’s use.
The observations of M. Miége on the difference between English and French ideas and ways are serviceable, and often amusing. ”

“ C’est un Degré de Naturalization en usage en Angleterre.
☞ A Denison signifies in law an alien infranchised in England by the King’s Charter, and inabled almost in all respects to do as native subjects, namely, to purchase, and possess lands, to be capable of any office or dignity. Yet it is short of Naturalization, because a stranger naturalized may inherit lands by descent, which a man made only a Denizen cannot. ”

“ It appears that in Miége’s time the word refugee had not been coined by the English, nor had its French participial root refugié been brought into use as a noun (in fact the French do not seem to have ever coined such a noun, for François refugiés ought to be translated “sheltered Frenchmen”) . (Professor Weiss called the world-wide community of Huguenot refugees le refuge, but added that such is not pure French, “nous le savons bien.”) Neither had the word stranger or straunger been then applied to refugees. ”