 West part whereof, being spacious and lightsome, for many years hath been the strangers' church : A congregation for the most part of distressed Exiles, grown so great, and yet daily multiplying, that the place in short time is likely to prove a Hive...  Archaeologia Cantiana - Page 5441880Full view - About this book
 | William Gostling - 1825 - 490 pages
...not so numerous. distressed exiles, grown so great, and yet daily multiplying, that the place in a short time is likely to prove a hive too little to contain such a swarm." It is under the west part of the choir, as observed in Chap. X. where I have given my opinion in regard... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 508 pages
...many years hath been the strangers' church : A congregation for the most part of distressed Exiles, grown so great, and yet daily multiplying, that the...to prove a Hive too little to contain such a Swarm. So great an alteration is there since the time the first of the Tribe came hither, the number of them... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 594 pages
...strangers' church : A congregation for the most part of distressed Exiles, grown so great, and jfet daily multiplying, that the place in short time is...to prove a Hive too little to contain such a Swarm. So great an alteration is there since the time the first of the Tribe came hither, the number of them... | |
 | 1877 - 606 pages
...many years hath been the strangers' church : a congregation for the most part of distressed exiles, grown so great, and yet daily multiplying, that the...prove a hive too little to contain such a swarm.' - Would that we could say that the Huguenots had been absolutely free from religious persecution even... | |
 | William Archibald Scott Robertson - 1880 - 204 pages
...Canterbury, shews the exact area which they occupied, when their numbers were very considerable. Somner, whose book was printed in AD 1640, speaks of the congregation...families. It would seem that, in this crypt, not only was Divine Service performed, in French, by their first Pastor, Hector Hamon ; but their children were... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 520 pages
...many years hath been the strangers' chui-ch : a congregation for the most part of distressed exiles, grown so great, and yet daily multiplying, that the...prove a hive too little to contain such a swarm." The Huguenot exiles remained unmolested in the exercise of their •worship until the advent of Charles... | |
 | British Archaeological Association - 1884 - 542 pages
...ycares hath beene the ' Strangers Church.' A congregation for the most part of distressed exiles, growne so great and yet daily multiplying, that the place...short time is likely to prove a hive too little to containe such a swarrne. So great an alteration is there since the time the first of the tribe came... | |
 | John Yonge Akerman, Sir John Evans, William Sandys Wright Vaux, Frederic William Madden, Barclay Vincent Head, Herbert Appold Grueber, Edward James Rapson, Oliver Codrington, Sir George Francis Hill, George Cyril Brooke - 1863 - 386 pages
...the most part of distressed exiles, grown so great, and yet daily multiplying, that the place in a short time is likely to prove a hive too little to contain such a swarm." This prediction in a few years was verified, for after the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685,... | |
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