ABSTRACT
The Entring Book is centred around the 1680s, and is arguably the single most important source available to historians for the reign of James II. The same decade and the same reign were central to the arrival of French Protestant, or ‘Huguenot’, refugees in England. Morrice was a Staffordshire man with no family connections to France. He never set out with any particular intention to reflect on the Huguenots, but his massive ‘Historical Register of Occurrences’ is an important source for an understanding of the exiles: well-informed, accurate, and with a revealing wealth of supporting detail.
