HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION in France, AND OF THE Reformed CHURCHES in that Kingdom. FROM The First Beginnings of the REFORMATION, TO THE Repealing of the Edict of NANTZ. WITH An ACCOUNT of the late Perfecution of the French Proteftants under Lewis XIV. Extracted out of the beft Authorities. A WORK never before Published. Wherein the many Falfifications of the Jefuit Daniel, Author of the Hiftory of France, in Matters relating to Religion, are set forth in their full Light, and proved by his own Quotations. By the Reverend STEPHEN ABEL LAVAL, One of the Minifters of the United Chapels of Caftle-freet and Berwick-street. In THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed by H. WOODFALL, for the AUTHOR, and fold at his Houfe in Hollen's-ftreet, near Wardour-Street, Soho. MDCCXXXVII, 110. j. 80. To the Right Reverend FATHER in GOD, HENRY, Lord Bishop of Dromore. My LORD, Y hearty and unfeigned Zeal for the Religion of my Forefathers, and the profound Refpect I bear to the Memory of those who firft planted it in their Country, have been the chief Reasons that moved me to write the Hiftory, which I here take the liberty to dedicate to your Lordship. REFORMATION has been reprefented as odious in all Parts of the World, and the Emiffaries of Rome have left no Stone unturned, to give its Motives a criminal cast, and render its Maxims hateful and abominable in the eyes of the People, in order to A 2 make |