David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Writers, if they are of liberal politics, when they narrate persecuting deeds done by Roman Catholics, think that they ought to insert a single comment, here and there, in order to propitiate Roman Catholic readers. ”

“ Accordingly, the above writer fixes on the horror of parents at a daughter being carried off to a convent; and he says sneeringly, “A convent to the Huguenot’s excited prejudices implied a place of dissolute morals as well as of idolatrous doctrine.” Surely this writer is a bachelor, who thinks that parents should cheerfully give away their own children to Mother-Church or to any applicant, if the house to which it is proposed to transport them be a comfortable one.
In the London French Church registers, Olivier Migault is described as a native of Mauzé in Poitou. ”

“ Her father, the Marquis d’Olbreuse, had been one of the Protestant noblesse of Poitou; her brother was his worthy successor; and she herself had been baptized in the Protestant temple of Mauzé. It was not till the 23rd September 1685 that the dragoons invaded and occupied Mauzé. But at that date its Protestant inhabitants were finally scattered. Migault was a wanderer for nearly three years, frequently visiting La Rochelle, and constantly planning the escape of himself and his children from France. ”