RELIGION AND INDUSTRY
I Ji is curious how religion—religious j disunion more particularly—lias ereatled llie staple trades in England. An l intolerant king drove the Jews out of - France. They passed over to England, and many of them drifted up north and set their looms whirring. Eater, another monarch, quite as fanar.ictU and far more bigoted, harried and persecuted the most industrious portion of his Flemish subjects until their only chance of life was to leave their coun?l :y for England. The cloili trade 1 grew, and the villages grew, and the industry in Britain again received a . certain impetus from the third influx of | the fugitive —the Huguenots.
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Otaki Mail, 11 April 1923, Page 4
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