The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

OLD LETTEORS. 165
see "The tender mercies of the wicked are Chap, ii.
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One day the Priest came to my grandfather's ^^^•
house with six men. He drew (his sword) and Dupuy.
told them to stand off. The Priest told him that 1814.
he must be taken and if need be he could get more
men. My grandfather told him that he wanted only
a little time to consider and take advice and then
he would surrender himself. The Priest said that
his request was reasonable and that he would
grant it cheerfully, so they parted good friends.
Immediately my grandfather went across the street
to a tailor's shop and told the tailor to make a suit
of men's clothes for his wife, to have them done in
six hours and keep the secret. At midnight the
clothes were done. She put them on and passed for
his Servitor. They immediately started, my
grandfather wearing his military dress and sword
and passed for a captain of the army, he having
often traveled the country in that garb on the recruiting
service. They traveled either 14 or 18
days before they got out of France, were stopped
every day to give an account of themselves, for
there were guards at every crossing place ;
but they
escaped by his saying that he was the King's oflBcer.
He had many narrow escapes but at last got
over the line and sat down and sang the praises of
God in the 40th Psalm.
Germany rejoiced to see their Protestant brethren
who had escaped out of the jaws of the lion and
mourned that so many were massacred. It fired
the souls of the protestants; their ministers were
burning and shining lights; the praises of the Redeemer
resounded through the land as it did in
Virginia in the time of the great revival. Thousands
escaped by one strategy or other and thousands
were put to the most barbarous deaths.
The refugees remained in Germany about 14
years. By this time the King of England in order
to strengthen his Kingdom, made encouraging proposals
for them to repair to England. Numbers