ABSTRACT
The government's policy towards Huguenots in Ireland makes it evident that, to attract French Protestants to come to that 'popish' country and to settle those who had helped William of Orange to the throne, in 1662 and in 1692 the legislature was willing to grant privileges that enabled French Calvinists to become naturalized citizens in Ireland. Both acts have to be considered to be direct responses to bellicose situations. The Act of 1704 divided the corps de refuge in Ireland which had already consisted of conforming and dissenting churches. Ministers such as Jacques Abbadie, now Dean of Killaloe, who had conformed to the Church of Ireland, tried to convince their brethren to conform, too, to the Church of Ireland. He feared nothing more than schism which, in the end, could have separated refugees from the Crown's financial support.
