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From: "Carol J. Markillie" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] Sandtoft Huguenots
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 07:28:00 -0800
References: <20031116123334.9360.h018.c001.wm@mail.leroy.ws.criticalpath.net>

Hi Peter and Others:

The colony of Walloons at Sandtoft were employed by Cornelius Vermuyden, who
had worked with them before in the Netherlands, to emigrate to Lincolnshire
and take part (do the work, more like) in the draining of Hatfield Chase,
one of the King's hunting grounds. These people were not religious refugees
per se, although they had been about sixty years previously when they were
sentenced to permanent exile from France (in large part) and made their way
from Artois and nearby areas up to the Netherlands.

Regards -
Carol

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