It is enough that one of the first and most obvious measures by which to keep their promise to the king, was to dispossess the proscribed subjects of their worldly goods and chattels.

By this measure a two-fold object was secured.

While the heretic was made to suffer, the faithful were sure of their reward.

It was a principle faithfully kept in view; and the refugees brought with them into exile, little beyond the liberties and the virtues for which they had endured so much.

But these were possessions, as their subsequent history has shown, beyond all price.
* Dalcho, in his Church History, says, "upwards of one hundred families." Our humble community along the Santee had suffered the worst privations of their times and people.