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This paper aims at giving a poster-sketch of the life of the strangers in the metropolis, 1558–1640, during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period when the political, economic and social position was undergoing a fundamental change which in some senses meant consolidation and in others disintegration; when the concepts and policies established even in the Elizabethan period itself were altered, often radically modified by the early Stuarts and even by the Elizabethan government itself. It was an uneasy period in which to live and especially difficult for the strangers unfamiliar with the language and customs of the land of their settlement.
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J. Stow, A Survey of London Reprinted from the Text of 1603, edited by C. L. Kingsford, (Oxford, 1908) vol. II, pp. 199–200.
See R. Smith, The Archives of the French Protestant Church of London: A Handlist, Huguenot Society of London Quarto Series, (1972) vol. 50
J. H. Hessels, Ecclesiae Londino — Batavae Archivum, (Canterbury, 1887–97) vols. II and III in two parts, an analysis of letters and other documents in the archives of the Dutch Church in London. The archives of the French Church are deposited in the French Protestant Church of London, and those of the Dutch Church in the Manuscript Department, Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London.
Scouloudi (1985) pp. 96–7. The story of this corporation is told in detail by N. G. Brett-James, The Growth of Stuart London (London: Allen & Unwin, 1935) pp.228ff.
Quoted D. S. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World (Harvard University Press, 1984).
During the subsequent discussion Professor Sutherland said that the term Huguenot does not appear to have come into general usage before about 1560 at the time of the Conspiracy of Amboise when it was generally an appellation for a French political military group. A little later it was applied to French Calvinists. See also Tollin ‘Concerning the name “Huguenot”’, Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London, 6 (1902) pp. 327 ff.
L. Stone, An Elizabethan: Sir Horatio Pallavicino (Oxford, 1956) gives a lively and scholarly description of the activities and importance of this outstanding Elizabethan merchant.
R. Finlay, Population and the Metropolis: Demography of London 1580–1650 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981) p. 68; Scouloudi (1985) p. 76.
A.B. Beaven, The Alderman of the City of London, (London, 1908) vol. I, p. 140.
Also F. N. L. Poynter, Gideon de Laune and his family circle: The Gideon de Laune lecture, 1964 (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965).
R. H. Tawney and E. Power, Tudor Economic Documents, (London, 1924) vol. I, p. 349.
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Scouloudi, I. (1987). The Stranger Community in the Metropolis 1558–1640. In: Scouloudi, I. (eds) Huguenots in Britain and their French Background, 1550–1800. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08176-9_3
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