"About 1700 there were 35 French churches in London and suburbs, 11 of these in Spitalfields. The French church in Threadneedle Street was the oldest in London and the one to which refugees reported for recognition. Threadneedle Church received the Huguenot Calvinists while the French Episcopal Church in Savoy received Protestents of the Lutheran persuasion. New settlements required new churches such as Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Stonehouse, Dartmouth, Barnstable, and Thorpe-le-Soken. In many of these congregations the refugees were seafaring people: captains, masters, and sailors from Nantes, Saumur, Saintonge, and La Rochelle." SOURCE: Reaman, C. Elmore , The Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the United States, South Africa and Canada, p. 81