Extract from the Fourth Letter, Dated November 2, 1671

Concerning our Swiss friends, they are now coming this way in large parties, so that over two hundred people have already arrived, and among them are many old, gray-headed people, both men and women, who have reached seventy, eighty, indeed ninety years; also a number who are crippled and lame; carrying their bundles on their backs, with children on their arms, some of good cheer, some also with tearful eyes, especially the old and feeble people, who now in their great age are forced to wander about in misery, and go to strange countries, and many of them having nothing to sleep on at night, so that I and others with me have now for about two weeks had to make it our regular work to provide shelter and other necessities for them.

We are also expecting still more every day, so that we hope that when most of the people have left the country, the prisoners will be released as well. Farewell.

What followed was that more and more of the banished fugitives kept coming down from Switzerland into the Palatinate, nearly seven hundred people in all, old and young, among whom were families with eight, ten, and as many as twelve children, who had scarcely been able to bring enough with them for their traveling expenses, as appears from the following extract