This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... The Mauzy Family From 1685. O far as we know, all the Mauzys of this country have descended from a single an cestor, Henry Mauzy, a French Protestant or Huguenot, who, to escape Catholic persecution, fled from France shortly after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and he descended from a noble ancestry, as is evidenced by the Coat-of-arms of the family, an armorial device, which was embroidered and worn on the coat outside of the armor by the knights and great barons of the Middle Ages. Originally, the term, "Coat-of-arms," embraced the coat as well as the device, but in modern heraldry it means the armorial device simply, and that embroidered on satin pillow-cases, (the work and gift of his mother) and a silver cup, an heirloom in the family, and his bible, he took with him when he made his escape to England concealed in a hogshead in the hold of the vessel. The immediate family of which he was a member was one of prominence and of zealous protestantism, and was consequently under vigilant espionage, and hence had a trap-door in the floor under which they concealed their bible when not in use. Whilst one would read the bible in their daily devotions, another would watch to annonuce the approach of any one, and in such event the bible was instantly put beneath the trap-door. In Foote's History of the Huguenots, pages 577 and 578, in speaking of the Mauzy family, he says: "Henry Mauzy fled from France in 1685. Tradition has preserved too little concerning the condition and residence of his ancestors. It is known, however, that a Huguenot minister by the name of Mauzy left France in the same vessel that conveyed James Fountaine to England. It is also known that the parents of Henry Mauzy were accustomed to read the bible daily...