Huguenots and Palatines

• Who were the Huguenots

  French Protstants
• Why did the Huguenots migrate

  • Saw England as safe, because it was Protestant due to the Reformation
  • They couldn't work at trade businesses because of their religion
• How many Huguenots migrated

  50,000 from 1670-1710
• What status were Huguenot migrants given

  denizen status
• Who helped Huguenots settle

  churches
• Why were Huguenots more accepted

  • Weavers
  • Richer
• When and what was the Foreign Protestants Naturalisation Act

  • 1709
  • Protestants could migrate to Britain and receive full civil rights
  • Attracted wealthy entrepreneurs from France and Holland
• Why did Palatines to migrate

  • 1709 Foreign Protestants Naturalisation Act
  • Fleeing from bad harvests in Palatinate (Germany)
• Why weren't Palatines as accepted

  • They were mainly unneeded agricultural workers
  • They were poor: not much to offer
• Where did some Palatines want to go

  America, advertised by the British Carolina Company
• How many Palatines and German Protestant migrated to england

  almost 12,000 from May - June 1709
• What was set up for the Palatines?

  huge refugee camp on outskirts of London
• How did the Palatines' reception change of time

  • Initially welcomed: Londoner's raise £20,000 to help them
  • They started to get fed up
• Why did Palatine support slacken

  • government weren't funding migration to America
  • charitable support decreased
• How was Palatines' experience

  Bad
• Why was the Palatines' experience bad

  • They were poor
  • Weren't getting much support
  • Deportation
• STATS of Palatine Deportation

  • September 1709: 3,000 deported to Ireland, to farm the land
  • Land quality was bad so they were still poor
  • Irish Catholics were unwelcoming, they thought they were strengthening English Protestantism
• How many of the Palatine deportees came back

  two thirds
• of the two thirds of Palatines that came back, who helped settle them

  • Sir Thomas Southwell
  • 1714: he had settled 130 families
• How were the Huguenots experience?

  Good
• Why was the huguenot experience good

  • range of skills to find work:
  • financial
  • developing expensive goods like leather and tapestries
  • spinning and weaving silk
  • selling/making soaps, vinegar, glass, paper, swords, knives, guns, clocks
• Bad aspects of Huguenot experience

  some took to crime (few)
• Impact of Huguenot migrants

  • New weaving techniques; 1600-1700, 20 times more sales
  • Used silk for dresses boosting fashion industry
  • Iron worker helped steel and paper industry
  • better economy: provided 10% of Bank of England's capital
  • New churches built for them; society was (to an extent more open)