Quoted by Browning in his History of the Huguenots.
** Browning, [William Shergold]: History of the Huguenots.
London: Whittaker and Co.

1840.

p.256.

Of the Refugees from France, Hume says, "near fifty thousand passed over into England;" and Voltaire writes that "one of the suburbs of London was entirely peopled with French workers of silk." [W.

S.Browning was uncle to the poet, Robert Browning.
A.L., 1996.] America, the new world, was naturally a land of refuge, and soon received her share of these unhappy fugitives.