MORELL

MORELL. " The sreat grandfathers of Dr. Morell LLD., who died at Bath in 1 810 both paternally and maternally were Huguenots, who resided in the province of Champagne, in France. At tlie memorable era of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, these confessors were imprisoned, their goods confiscated, and there is reason to believe that they eventually suffered martyrdom. Of one of them it is related, that during his impi'isonment he was the means of coufirming the faith of his fellow-i)risoners by his discourses, and that he was accustomed to preach to the inhabitants of the town in which he was immured through the grating of his dungeon. Each of these admirable men left an infant son, whose respective names were Daniel Morel and Stephen Conte, and who, as it will presently appear, wei'e the great-grandfathers of Dr. Morell. During a dreadful day of persecution, when blood was streaming in the streets, and the Protestants were fleeing from the sword, two soldiei's entered a liouse, and after having killed some of the inmates, seeing an infant lying in the cradle, one of them, with his sword, pierced it, and the blood gushed forth. — its life, Iiowever, was saved ; it was snatched up by some one, who remarked that The hale at least was not a Protestant, and it was taken and

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