# Extract From The Fourth Letter, Dated November 2d, 1671.

17th century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: EXTRACT FROM THE FOURTH LETTER, DATED NOVEMBER 2D, 1671.

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Concerning our Swiss friends, they are now coming
this way in large parties, so that there have
already arrived over two hundred persons, and
among them are many old, gray headed people, both
men and women, that have reached seventy, eighty,
yea, ninety years; also a number that are crippled
and lame; carrying their bundles on their backs,
with children on their arms, some of good cheer,
some also with tearful eyes, particularly the old and
feeble persons, who now in their great age are compelled
to wander about in misery, and go to strange
countries, and many of them having nothing on
which to sleep by night, so that I and others with
me, have now for about two weeks had to make it
our regular work, to provide shelter and other
necessaries for them.

We are also in daily expectation of still more, so
that we hope, that when the people have mostly
left the country, the prisoners also will be released.
Farewell.

The sequel was, that continually more and more
of the expelled fugitives came down from Switzerland
into the Palatinate, in all nearly seven hundred
persons, old and young, among whom were families
of eight, ten, and as many as twelve children, who
had scarcely been able to bring with them enough
for their traveling expenses, as appears from the
following extract:





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