Going with the FDR theme, they promised an abortion in every pot.
After about 50 years of intense study in the history of the time I finally found half the ancestors fleeing Brittany to Sweden, and the other half fleeing Brittany to Spain, both for the same reason!
Although Protestant they'd bet on the wrong guy.
Plus they had cousins abroad.
Folks who think times are tough now would be aghast at the 1500s ~