In 1693 he opposed the Naturalisation Bill which aimed to grant English citizenship to foreign Protestants resident in England.

The effect of the Act was that all foreign Protestants could be naturalised provided they swore allegiance to the government and received sacrament in any Protestant church.

Thus, a plan was developed to aggressively recruit foreign Protestants.

Most of the foreign Protestants settled along the South Shore between Liverpool and Halifax.

Initial settlement of the area was largely between 1730 and 1766 when the South Carolina government offered incentives for foreign Protestants to settle what was then the backcountry.

Beginning in 1550, the Duchess helped establish Stranger churches for foreign Protestants, principally Dutch, who were fleeing religious persecution on the Continent.

He regarded Necker, a foreign Protestant, as a dangerous innovator and secret republican and was wary of his Anglophile views.

He supported the Act for naturalising foreign Protestants in 1708, voted for the impeachment of Henry Sacheverell, and generally acted with the Whigs.

In 1740, foreign Protestants after a residence of seven years could become naturalized on swearing an oath of allegiance.

She offered very limited aid to foreign Protestants and failed to provide her commanders with the funds to make a difference abroad.