Engraving after Dodd, entitled ‘Engraved for the Reverend Dr Southwell’s New Book of Martyrs’, 1765. The caption below the image reads: View of the Dreadful Massacre of the Protestants in Paris on St Bartholomew’s Day, 1572.’ Wellcome collections, reference: 43147i.
[A more famous work of history of the Protestant martyrs by John Foxe was earlier published in 1563. It was called ‘The Actes and Monuments’, or ‘ Foxe’s Book of Martyrs’.]
- What is happening in the picture?
- Can you infer, from the title of engraving, why this source was produced?
- Can you find out more about the St Bartholomew’s Eve Massacre 1572?
- What does this event infer about the reasons for migration of Huguenots to England from 1572?
- Find out about the following:
- Migrations from France in the 1680s during the reign King Louis XIV.
- The Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act of 1708 passed by King Charles II.