ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the abandonment of that policy, when James published his Declaration of Indulgence in the spring of 1687, was crucial in encouraging more Huguenots to pour across the Channel. Outside London, new Huguenot churches were indeed founded at exeter, Greenwich, Bristol and Stonehouse, as Fabienne Chamayou suggests. The location of French congregations in England, and in most cases when they were established, has been clearly evidenced for many years, so this part of the paper is not reporting new work. Rather it draws attention to firmly established conclusions which seem to have escaped notice. The English government had long been concerned about the mushrooming growth of the capital. By the end of the century it numbered some half a million inhabitants, was over twenty times the size of the next English city, and housed one in every nine or ten Englishmen.
