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  Edinburgh Review, vol. 99, page 455:— “The refugees who settled in England waited long for a history of their fortunes, but they at length found a chronicler in Mr Southerden Burn, who having been appointed in 1843 secretary to the commission for collecting the non-parochial registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, undertook the work of extricating, from the papers committed to his hands, all the profitable matter they could yield. He has thence drawn an authentic sketch of the French, Walloon, Dutch, and other foreign Protestant congregations harboured in England since the reign of Henry VIII., in the form of a catalogue raisonneé of those curious archives, full of particulars, dates, family names, and quotations ; being rather well-arranged materials of a book than the book itself.” 