David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ He has thence drawn an authentic sketch of the French, Walloon, Dutch, and other foreign Protestant congregations harboured in England since the reign of Henry VIII., in the form of a catalogue raisonneé of those curious archives, full of particulars, dates, family names, and quotations ; being rather well-arranged materials of a book than the book itself. ”

“ The refugees who settled in England waited long for a history of their fortunes, but they at length found a chronicler in Mr Southerden Burn, who having been appointed in 1843 secretary to the commission for collecting the non-parochial registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, undertook the work of extricating, from the papers committed to his hands, all the profitable matter they could yield. ”