Baird, Henry M., HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE HUGUENOTS OF FRANCE, New York: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1879. 1st ed. dark green cloth hardcovers w/gilt tiling to spine only, 8vo (8.750 x 5.875?), Good / n.a., v.1: 577 pp.; v.2: 681pp. Two fold-out maps. General rubbing to boards, head and tail of spine chipped and worn, corners bumped and rubbed, light age-toning to edges of text. The Huguenots are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants first labeled in the 16th century, but with roots long before that, who were severely persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church. Persecution drive them to the four corners of the earth. Thousands were slain in the Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 and tens of thousands in coming years. They were again severely persecuted in 1685 under Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau. Many French Huguenots (Protestants), fleeing religious persecution in France, emigrated to America via England, which granted them tracts of frontier land to settle. One such settlement was Manakin Town in Virginia, created in 1700 on the James River near present-day Richmond. These two wonderful little tomes tell their story ? quite the distinctive duo of Captured Tyme!