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# Proclamation 7239

Delivered on 8 October 1999.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
Although Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the New World took place more than 500 years ago, the momentous changes it brought about still resonate today. His journey triggered a historic encounter between Europe and the native peoples of the New World; helped open new continents to exploration, trade, and development; established a reliable route to the Americas; and was a major milestone in the inexorable trend toward expansion and globalization.
Columbus could not have imagined the full impact of his arrival in 1492 or how his journey would shape human history. The zeal for trade that motivated the Spanish crown to fund Columbus' voyages still exists today as we work to strengthen our commercial ties with other nations and to compete in an increasingly global economy. Columbus' own passion for adventure survives as an integral part of our national character and heritage, reflected in our explorations of the oceans' depths and the outer reaches of our solar system. A son of Italy, Columbus opened the door to the New World for millions of people from across the globe who have followed their dreams to America. Today, Americans of Italian and Spanish descent can take special pride, not only in Columbus' historic achievements, but also in their own immeasurable contributions to our national life. From business to the arts, from government to academia, they have played an important part in advancing the peace and prosperity our country enjoys today.
We are about to embark on our own journey into a new millennium of unknown challenges and possibilities. As we ponder that future, Columbus' courage and daring still capture the American imagination, inspiring us to look to the horizon, as he did, and see, not a daunting boundary, but a new world full of opportunity.
In tribute to Columbus' many achievements, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934 (48 Stat. 657), and an Act of June 28, 1968 (82 Stat. 250), has requested the President to proclaim the second Monday in October of each year as "Columbus Day."
Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 11, 1999, as Columbus Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of Christopher Columbus.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., October 13, 1999]
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# Proclamation 7241

Delivered on 15 October 1999.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
From our earliest days as a Nation, America's forests have played a vital role in fostering our country's economic strength and enhancing the quality of our lives. American Indians and European settlers alike found in our forests the fuel and material for shelter to sustain their families and communities. From those same forests came timber for our fleets of sailing ships and the ties for our railroads that span the continent. Whether working in lumber mills or paper mills, for furniture manufacturers or the building industry, generations of Americans have earned their livelihood from the bounty of our forests.
Forests bring more, however, to our lives than economic prosperity. They provide invaluable habitat for a variety of plants and animals, help to keep our air and water clean, and promote soil stability. They also renew our spirits by offering us a place to experience the beauty, peace, and diversity of the natural world.
As our Nation has grown and developed, so too have our demands on our forests. We can be grateful that, despite decades of exploitation, forests still comprise as much as one-third of our country's land area today. Thanks to innovative management techniques, individual and corporate commitment to recycling, and close cooperation between Federal, State, and private land owners, we are succeeding in sustaining the health and productivity of these precious natural resources. Through continued wise stewardship, we can ensure that future generations of Americans will have the same opportunities to share the beauty and bounty of our forests as we enjoy today.
To recognize the importance of our forests in ensuring the long-term welfare of our Nation, the Congress, by Public Law 86-753 (36 U.S.C. 123), has designated the week beginning on the third Sunday in October of each year as "National Forest Products Week" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this week.
Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 17 through October 23, 1999, as National Forest Products Week. I call upon all Americans to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:04 a.m., October 18, 1999]
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).
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# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Jolivet

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Jolivet.
Evert Jolivet was naturalised at Westminster on 4th April 1688 (see List xi.). The only fact preserved concerning him is that he published, in 1708, some sacred poetry composed by his late father, whom he calls “Everte Jollyvet, avocat au parlement d’Orleans.” Prefixed to the “Poesies Chretiennes” is a brief life of the father, who was also the author of publications on the Annals of Sweden, both in prose and verse. He was born at Orleans in 1600, and became an ancien of the Reformed Church, eminent for his knowledge of the Scriptures and of theology, a deputy to the Provincial Synod, and Secretary to that ecclesiastical court. He died at Orleans on 20th July 1662, aged sixty-two. The filial editor says nothing about himself.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Jaumard

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Jaumard.
Jean Jaumard was a refugee from Talmont, in Lower Poitou. I am not informed on the question whether he was a pasteur of the French Reformed Church, but he was ordained to the ministry of the Church of England, and was known as the Rev. John Jaumard, Vicar of Arundel from 1686 to 1694. He married Susanne Jousseaume, of Niort, and his third child was Samuel Jaumard. Samuel, junior, married Sophie, daughter of Elie Detandebaratz, a refugee from La Rochelle, and was the father of a third Samuel, styled “Esq. of Marylebone.” Samuel Jaumard, Esq., was born on 2nd July 1733; he married, first, Mary, daughter of Rev. John Peter Bernard, second, Margaret, widow of Alexander Lafon (who died in 1799), and daughter of Francis Chassereau and Anne Johannot. Mr Jaumard died in 1827, and left five sons and three daughters by his first wife.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Le Quesne

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Le Quesne.
The family of Le Quesne, in Jersey, is said to be of pre-reformation descent, the Channel Islands being ours as a remnant of the Norman dominions of William the Conqueror; and this family, like most of the neighbouring gentlemen, claims to be old Norman, and does not wish to be thought a refugee family. This I do not dispute; but I do dispute their claim to two persons whom I am about to name. John Le Quesne and David Le Quesne were naturalised in 1700 (see List xxiv.); if they had been Jersey-men, naturalisation would not have been requisite. There died in London, in 1741, Sir John Le Quesne, and in 1753 David Le Quesne, Esq., brother of the late Sir John (see Gentleman’s Magazine). Sir John, who was an Alderman in 1735, was knighted in 1737; in 1738 he married Miss Knight, of Hampshire, with £20,000; he was Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1739-40; he was a subscriber to Laval’s “History of the Reformed Church of France,” and a Director of the French Hospital. In 1676 there resided at Rouen Jacques Lequesne, avocat, whose daughter (Catherine), by Elisabeth Delavoye, his wife, was married in that year. (See my volume i., book i., chapter xv.)
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Longevity

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Longevity.
The longevity of many of the refugees and their descendants (as my readers must have remarked) was remarkable. With regard to families originally planted in Barnstaple, Mr. Burn mentions the surnames Servantes and Roche. With regard to the former, he says, two ladies of this family now (1846) reside in Exeter, the one is upwards of ninety, and the other upwards of eighty. Monnier Roche used to say. “My grandfather was drowned when he was one hundred and eleven, and if he had not been drowned, he might have been alive now.” In the Scots Magazine there are two announcements — 13th December 1770, died at Rumsey, in Hampshire, aged one hundred and ten, Mr. Cordelon, a native of France; and in the number for January 1772, the death is announced, as having occurred at Rumsey in the previous month, of “Mr. Cordelon, a French refugee, aged one hundred and seven.” In the Dublin Freeman’s Journal for 15th October 1765, there was this announcement:— “Died a few days ago, Captain Lolamong, aged one hundred and twelve years; he was an ​officer in King William’s army and behaved with considerable courage.” [Query, Lalemant? or L’Allemagne?]
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Mercier

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Mercier.
The surname of Mercier often occurs in memoirs. Jean Le Mercier, known to the learned as Joannes Mercerus, was a famous Hebrew scholar and critic; though a layman of good family, born at Usez in Languedoc. He married one of the Morell family, a native of Embrun, and died in the prime of life in the year 1570, leaving a worthy son Josias Le Mercier, whom Colomiés honours as the father-in-law of Claudius Salmasius (see Gallia Orientalis by Colomiés). In or about 1685 refugees from Saumur came to London, named Le Mercier. In 1691 Martha, daughter of René Bertheau, D.D., and sister of Rev. Charles Bertheau, was married in London to Lieutenant Claude Mercier, and left a son. There were Huguenot refugees of the name in Prussia, and one of the family removed to England — viz., Philip Mercier, born at Berlin in 1689, a painter praised by Horace Walpole, his departments of the art being portraits, and interiors of houses. After acquiring a considerable reputation in Germany, he accepted an invitation from Frederick Prince of Wales, and continued to reside in England till his death on 18th July 1760 (see Haag). Louis Mercier became pastor of the City of London French Church, in 1784; his death is recorded in the New Annual Register for 1811:— Died, “July 18, Rev. Lewis Mercier, pastor of a French Church in London, and a very eloquent preacher.” Some of the refugees of the Revocation period bore the title of Le Mercier de la Perrière; they came from Alençon.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Laforey

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Laforey.
The Marquis de la Forêt, a French refugee from Poitou, commanded the Danish Auxiliaries under King William III., but did not settle in Britain. The pedigree of the Laforey family states that his brother, Louis de la Forêt, was a refugee in England in 1688, and was the father of Colonel John Laforey, Governor of Pendennis Castle, who died in 1753. The latter, who married Mary, daughter of Lieut-General Jasper Clayton, had an only son, born in 1729, of whom Beatson says:— “Admiral Sir John Laforey, Bart., greatly distinguished himself at the siege of Louisburg, in 1758, by boarding and taking the French ship the Prudent of seventy-four guns; in 1779 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Navy, resigning which, in 1789, he was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral of the White, and created a Baronet of Great Britain.” In his patent he is styled “of the Island of Antigua and of Stock-Dammerel in Devonshire.” Lady Laforey was Elinor, daughter of Francis Farley, Esq., one of the Judges of the Island of Antigua. Sir John died on the 14th June 1796, and was succeeded by his only surviving son, Admiral Sir Francis Laforey, Bart, K.C.B. (born 1767, died 1835), at whose death the title became extinct.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Mignard and Parr

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Mignard and Parr.
Pierre Mignard, a soldier in the French army, had two sons who became celebrated painters, (1) Pierre Mignard, surnamed the Roman; (2) Nicolas Mignard, called Mignard of Avignon, who died at Paris in 1668. Two of the sons of the latter came to England, and are reckoned among French Protestants, viz.:—
| Paul Mignard, portrait-painter in London (painted the Countess of Meath, and Ladies Henrietta and Anne Churchill, daughters of the Duke of Marlborough). | | Leonard Mignard, surgeon and apothecary, Harrow-on-the-Hill. | Leonard Mignard, surgeon and apothecary, Harrow-on-the-Hill. | Leonard Mignard, surgeon and apothecary, Harrow-on-the-Hill. | Leonard Mignard, surgeon and apothecary, Harrow-on-the-Hill. | Leonard Mignard, surgeon and apothecary, Harrow-on-the-Hill. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | = | = | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Elizabeth Bates, of Stamford, Lincolnshire. |
| | Anne Mignard, died 5th Nov. 1762. | Anne Mignard, died 5th Nov. 1762. | $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ | = | = | $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ | Samuel Parr, surgeon and apothecary (successor to Mignard at Harrow), died 23rd January 1766. | Samuel Parr, surgeon and apothecary (successor to Mignard at Harrow), died 23rd January 1766. | Samuel Parr, surgeon and apothecary (successor to Mignard at Harrow), died 23rd January 1766. | Samuel Parr, surgeon and apothecary (successor to Mignard at Harrow), died 23rd January 1766. | Samuel Parr, surgeon and apothecary (successor to Mignard at Harrow), died 23rd January 1766. |
| | | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D., | |
| born at Harrow, 15-26 January 1747 (n.s.); Assistant Master of Harrow School, 1767 to 1771; set up a private school at Stanmore, 1771; Master of the school at Colchester, 1777 to 1779; Master of the school at Norwich, 1779 to 1786; was made LL.D. of Cambridge in 1781; he had served as a minister of the Church of England at various places from 1769. In 1783 he became Perpetual Curate of Hatton, and Prebendary of St. Paul’s. He resided at Hatton from 1786 till his death on 6th March 1825. (See his Collected Works.) ||||||||||||
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Morell

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Morell.
At a village in Champagne (says Mr. Smiles), during a dreadful day of persecution, when blood was streaming in the streets, two soldiers entered the house of a Protestant, and after killing some of the inmates, one of them, seeing an infant in a cradle, rushed at it with his drawn sword and stabbed it, but not fatally. The child was snatched up and saved by a bystander, who exclaimed, “At least the babe is not a Protestant.” The child proved to be a boy, and was given to a Protestant woman to nurse, who had a male child of her own at the breast. The boys, Daniel Morell and Stephen Conté, grew up together. When old enough they emigrated into Holland together, entered the army of the Prince of Orange, accompanied him to England, and fought in Ireland together. There they settled and married, and Morell’s son married Conté’s daughter. Such were the ancestors of the Morell family, which has produced so many distinguished ministers of religion and men of science in England.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Lautour

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Lautour.
Joseph Francis Lautour of Devonshire Place, Marylebone, late of Fort George in the East Indies, Free Merchant, descended from a respectable family of the city of Strasburg in Alsace, was living in 1807. Maria Frances Gcslip, his second daughter, was married, in 1809, to Robert Townsend Farquhar, Esq., created a baronet in 1821, and was the mother of the second and third baronets. Georgiana, his third daughter, was married, in 1808, to Edward Marjoribanks, Esq., and was the mother of Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Lord Tweedmouth. There died at Cheltenham, on 26th November 1862, Edward de Lautour, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, late a judge in the High Court of Calcutta. Major Edward Joseph de Lautour (born 10th March 1842) is a distinguished officer of artillery, and wears two medals with clasps for active services in India.
# Queen Moo's Talisman; the Fall of the Maya Empire/VII

VII.
here flows the river Nile, the Queen found rest; There once again her days with peace were blest. Upon that soil where welcome frank was found, Did Móo a giant Sphinx from out the ground Cause to arise, and thus Coh's fame renew? Did she immortalize her consort true?
As child of Can the natives called her Queen; Their ancestors Cans' subjects all had been. Móo reigned again, and many a year she dwelt In Chem, the Land of Boats. There too she felt Her call to liberty, and passed away, Rejoiced at last the summons to obey.
"Now cometh bliss! the flesh doth loose its hold; Death's tender kiss will leave it still and cold. Upon my weary brow the veil of Night Descends; my soul leaps forth to joyous flight! ​O touch my heart with thy all-healing balm Oblivion sweet! now lull me in thy calm," Móo yearned for this. Then fell upon her ear A voice—"Blessèd are they who know not fear! The Heart of Heaven e'er radiates love's light, And soul released finds nothing to affright Save visions false of terror, bred by creeds, And deep remorse that gnaws at evil deeds."
Soul stirred, awoke and saw! Herself Móo found. Was this the law, tho' not to body bound, To still live on? What time in nothingness Had fled? Since she besought unconsciousness Had ages sped? And now appeared her guide, Cay, whom long she mourned when he had died. His clear calm eyes again she searched amazed; Their power thrilled and drew her as she gazed.
Then murmured she—"If this be happy dream Let me dream on." O Light! thy wondrous beam Throughout creation glows, now and for aye, If Will Omnipotent ordaineth day. Thy rays are harmonies, celestial Light! Because thou art, there is no endless night. Earth's weary children long for deep repose; But from the glorious light all music flows. As night and day forever alternate, In darkest silence life doth germinate. ​No mortal can conceive th' entrancing sounds That greet the spirit freed from terrene bounds. Could love's effulgence from supernal spheres But reach the mortal eye bedimmed with tears, A solace sweet as rain on sun-parched leaf Would fall on those bereft and bowed with grief. No more would Death a bitter foe appear; Kind Hope and Faith would banish Doubt and Fear.
To Móo awaked another rapture flowed— Coh's eyes with love unquenched before her's glowed. O Love! thou art the power of life, the force That lifts the soul; Divinity thy source. Ignoble things thy presence doth redeem, Sweet breath of God! most holy and supreme! Eternal thou, throughout the boundless space; Thy purity no act can e'er abase. Deep passion broods pent up, in matter dark; Death comes, and there upon his gliding bark Reality appears; soul finds its own— Pure Love released, unmasked, stands forth alone.
By man has time been made the gauge of Earth. What cares the soul in realm of spirit birth How oft around spin globes above, below? Of happiness do beings weary grow? Must they return—again to feel the throes Of matter's strife—from passionless repose?
# Queen Moo's Talisman; the Fall of the Maya Empire/Pronunciation and Definition of Maya Proper Names

| AAC | (Ak, as in dark.) | Name of a prince. |
| BALAM | (Bä́-läm, a as in far.) | God of agriculture. |
| CAN | (Kän, a as in far.) | Title of kings. |
| CAY | (Kä́-ee.) | Name of a high priest. |
| CHICĦEN | (Chee-chen, chec as in cheek.) | Name of a city. |
| COH | (Kō.) | Name of a prince consort. |
| HOMEN | (Hō-men, o as in no.) | God of volcanic forces. |
| KU | (Koo, oo as in moon.) | The Supreme Intelligence. |
| MAYA | (Mä́-yä, a as in far.) | Name of a nation. |
| MÓO | (Mō, o as in no.) | Name of a queen. |
| MU | (Moo, oo as in moon.) | Name of a country. |
| NICTÉ | (Ník-tay.) | Name of a princess. |
| YUM CIMIL | (Yoom Keémil.) | God of death. |
| ZOƆ | (Zōdz.) | Name of a queen. |
# Queen Moo's Talisman; the Fall of the Maya Empire/Sequel, II

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antastic thought cut loose from reason cool Are dreams wherein the wisest play the fool. Can dreams be memories? Are some portents? Who knows? His ignorance man still laments.
The woman dreamed among the Ruins gray, Where moon shines in at night and sun by day On crumbling floors where powdered bones thick lie And glistening serpents glide with gleaming eye.
Now as she seemed to roam in palace drear, A man in rich and strange attire drew near, Bemoaning thus: "May every wind and leaf Re-echo now my wail of hopeless grief! In mercy shine upon my endless woe, Great Sun! from whom all life and light outflow. ​Here crouches Aac, alone from age to age— Absorb me now, my wretchedness assuage! Remorse, to thee I said, 'Return no more'— Thou shalt not stay to goad me as before! O Light Eternal! bid this mem'ry die While penitent upon the ground I lie. Tho' long the years of anguish I have spent, The worm gnaws on as if 'twould ne'er relent." He prayed and wept. Response came from above— A woman's voice replied with pitying love.
Up started he—"Hush! hush! thou knowest not, But I know who thou art. O bitter lot! To jealous frenzy I became a slave And vilely slew my brother true and brave, Thus casting o'er my sister's life a blight. Still mad with rage and lost to sense of right, I crushed my elder brother in my wrath; Tho' Pontiff he, I swept him from my path."
"My vicious mood led many where they fell; I lied to them that they might serve me well. No fiery couch was lit for heroes slain; Now I could crawl o'er moldering bones, and fain Would lick their dust—so low my haughty head— I, lord of all! for whom their blood was shed. A tyrant harsh, imbittered I became; Nor could my soul's rebuke awaken shame. ​O Mother! drop thy tears; accurst for aye Am I! the drouth of this, my land, allay. Send down thy light, Great Sun!" he cried aloud, "Let me forget! with mortal form endowed."
To her he turned again: "Forgive! forgive! Earth-born thro' thee, ah! let me once more live. My crimes and victories, my soul's defeat, My anguish and remorse, wilt thou repeat; For thus alone new life may dawn for me— In solitude I've long awaited thee."
A falling tear the sighing dreamer woke: No mem'ry of the past could she evoke.