to their grandfitther's mansion, Bedford House, in the Strand,
and then to Wobum. Having done this, she returned to
London to minister consolation to her sorrowing tmde and
his wife, and to take, as she believed, a last farewell of them,
before their departure from England.
Her uncle, who, to use her own words, was ''as kind a
relation, and as zealous, tender a friend as ever anybody had,"
had, during his stay in London, been assiduous in interceding
with the lord-treasurer * and the chamberlain to the queen,'
for the removal of Lord Bussell's attainder; but, from the
obduracy of the king, all his efforts were unavailing. He
returned to France without accomplishing his object. Ou
his departure. Lady Kussell lefb London for Wobum, to re-
join her children. Here she remained with Lord Bedford
till the Christmas following.
At the time of the perfidious revocation of the edict (^
Kantes by the French king, Louis XIV.,* Lady Bussell'a
letters display the kind of feeling which, from her Christian
character and sentiments, might have been expected — hornar
at the tidings which every day was bringing of the savage
cruelty with which the Huguenots were persecuted; sym-
pathy with the sufferers, whose only crime was, that th^
would not abandon their faith for Popery; and contempt
for the folly, not less than detestation at the wickedness, of
the French monarch in his ferocious attempts to exterminate
from the soil of France the most virtuous, industrious, and
deserving of his subjects.
