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Subject: [Fwd: Early Flemish [Walloon] Protestants at Glastonbury]
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:58:58 -0700 (PDT)

Hello All:

I'm in the Arizona desert but it's raining so we went to the local LDS
library and I found in the book entitled "The Trail of the Huguenots..."
by G. Elmore REAMAN the following:

"The only refugee congregation outside London in King Edward's reign was
established at Glastonbury in Somerset unlikely as that western situation
may seem. The buildings and land were vacant, when the Protestant Duke of
Somerset received them from King Edward - the congregation founded there
by a colony of Flemish and Protestant weavers."
"The settlers were a compact group of refugees, Flemish & French who had
gathered at Strasbourg under John Calvin himself and now had to move
again.
Forty six families to whom 30 houses were allotted and they were
encouraged to pasture their cattle in the park of the Abbey, some of whose
buildings were used for their weaving industry...They held their Calvinist
services in the parish church and a special liturgy in Latin was printed
for them in London in 1551. On Queen Mary's accession they migrated to
Frankfurt."

I've checked my research notes as well as I can from a distance but have
no reference to any French parish register at Glastonbury nor does the
LDS.

Carol

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