Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion .. 1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France ... . Five persons starved to death. Page Burning of Protestants. Page 433. i FRENCH PERSECUTIONS—1814 to 1820. 577 This will oc
Book of martyrs, or, A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths of the primitive as well as Protestant martyrs : from the commencement of Christianity, to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution : to which is added, an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre, in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacre in the Irish rebellion .. 1641, and the recent persecutions of the Protestants in the south of France ... . Five persons starved to death. Page Burning of Protestants. Page 433. i FRENCH PERSECUTIONS—1814 to 1820. 577 This will occasion numerous conversions if you take care that it isrigorously executed, and that in all the distributions and passage oftroops, by far the greatest number are quartered on the rich protestants. His majesty particularly enjoins, that your orders on this sub-ject, either by yourself or your sub-delegates, be given by word ofmouth to the mayors and sheriffs, without letting them know that hismajesty intends by these means to force to become converts, and onlyexplaining to them, that you give these orders on the information youhave received, that in these places the rich are excepted by their in-fluence, to the prejudice of the poor. The merciless treatment of the women in this persecution at Nismeswas such as would have disgraced any savages ever heard of. Thewidows Rivet and Bernard were forced to sacrifice enormous sums ;and the house of Mrs. Lecointe was ravaged, and her goods destroy-ed. Mrs.
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