The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

Chap.
164 QUOTATIONS AND DEDUCTIONS.
I I. drew their swords and ran to meet each other and
Letter offaught hand to hand till the armies were so thinned
Rev.jno.^]^^^ One or the other of them gave way. You may
know that the carnage was exceeding great.
At the expiration of 14 years my grandfather left
the army and went home to pass a retired life. He
had money enough to settle himself comfortably,
bought a vineyard for fifty pounds and married a
wife.
In 1685 his most Christian Majesty, Louis XIV,
revoked the Edict of Nantes which afforded toleration
to the Protestants. His Majesty would have
no heretics in his dominions, all his subjects must
be Christians and every person must be a Roman
Catholic or die. Inquisitors were appointed to go
from house to house, to enquire whether people
would turn— if they refused they were immediately
apprehended, and if they continued impenitent
were forthwith put to death. The manner of the
death of some of them was as follows:— A cask
was armed with short nails driven through the
staves, and the culprit or rather the victim was put
in the cask, headed, and rolled to and fro to punish
him for his obstinacy, till they had tortured him
sufficiently for his rebellion, when the cask was
rolled into the river and let go adrift. Another
mode was this—
they had pinchers to pluck out
the finger nails and the toe-nails in order to make
them say, "I will turn," and if the culprit continued
obstinate one of his arms were broken and a
pail of coal water poured on it to increase the pain
and after an hour the other arm was treated in like
manner and then the legs. After a lapse of four
to the breast which
hours a red hot iron was put
gave the finishing stroke. Sometimes they used
the iron-boot to press the leg with screws to compel
them to say, "I will turn," and sometimes they
would pardon them and sometimes put them to
death instantly, unless they should apostatize.
Some were burned and some were drowned. Thus