action, that they may see that there is not merely an expenditure of words but by an alliance of hearts for impending action. I pray that God give to you, who are in no lack of counsel, that mind that knows how to reap the fruit of consultation, and that He may preserve you, my Lord, long to be the counsellor of your realm. — Your Lordship’s most faithful and affectionate.
“September 1572.”
The Queen showed the most marked compassion for her old friend, the Vidame. In the beginning of November several servants of his household landed at Rye. It is said, however, that he hastened to join the remarkable Huguenot rally, and succeeded in entering La Rochelle and placing himself under the command of La Noue. (There is a French memoir of the Vidame de Chartres by the Comte de la Ferrière-Percy, but I have failed to obtain a copy.)
The surname of Papillon is of great antiquity in France, in England under the Norman dynasty, and again in France at the era of the Protestant Reformation. In the London Lists of Strangers in 1618, under the heading Broad Street, there is this entry:— “David Papillion, born in the city of Paris in France, free denizen, in London 30 years.” His great-grandfather was Antoine Papillon (died 1525), an influential Huguenot, a correspondent of Erasmus, and a protegé of Marguerite de Valois, sister of Francis I., in whose Court he held an appointment. David’s grandfather was also a staunch Protestant, and one of the victims of the St Bartholomew massacre, 1572. David’s father was Thomas Papillon, gentleman of the bedchamber to Henri IV., and thrice his ambassador to Venice, but voluntarily retired into private life when the King abjured Protestantism; he had married on 12th August 1572 (the time of the festivities that preceded the massacre) Jane Vieue De la Pierre, and died 20th November 1608. David Papillon had a brother Thomas (born in 1578), Counsellor of the Parliament of Paris, and, in 1620, scribe to the Synod of Aries, who had a son, David, described as “a good and learned man who was banished from Paris, and was imprisoned for three years at Avranches in Normandy, as an obstinate Huguenot,” and then allowed to retire to England, where he died in 1693; he, of course, was the nephew of our David Papillon who founded the English family. David Papillon, of Broad Street (born 1579, died 1659) was also of Lubenham in Leicestershire; at the date of 1618, when we first met him, he was married to his second wife. His first wife, Mary Castel, to whom he was married in 1611, had died in 1614; her son died in infancy, but a daughter Mary survived, and was afterwards the wife of Peter Fontaine. Mr Papillon married, secondly, on 4th July 1615, Anne Mary Calandrini; “she was of a family famous through many generations at Lucca in Italy,” being daughter of Jean Calandrini, and granddaughter of Juliano Calandrini (Pope Nicholas V.’s brother), “who adopted the Reformed religion, and had to leave his possessions at Lucca and to take refuge in France.” A memorial of this Mr Papillon is Papillon Hall, the house which he built at Lubenham, and which is now the property of the Earl of Hopetoun. He was also celebrated as a military engineer, having been employed by Cromwell to fortify Northampton, Gloucester, and other towns. He was the author of the following publications:— (i) A Practical Abstract of the Arts of Fortification and Assailing, containing Foure different Methods of Fortifications, with approved rules to set out in the Field all manner of Superficies, Intrenchments, and Approaches, by the demy Circle, or with Lines and Stakes. Written for the benefit of such as delight in the Practice of these Noble Arts. By David Papillon, Gent. I have diligently perused this Abstract, and do approve it well worthie of the Publick view. Imprimatur, Io. Booker. London : Printed by R. Austin, and are to be sold at the south side of the Exchange and in Pope’s head Alley, 1645. [Dedicated “To His Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax, Generalissime of the Forces of the honorable houses of Parlement,” signed “your Excellencies most humble and devoted servant, David Papillon, Aetatis suae 65,” and dated “London, January 1st, 1645.”] (2) “The Vanity of the Lives and Passions of Men. Written by D. Papillon, Gent.:— Eccles. i. 2. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. April 9, 1651, Imprimatur, John Downame. London, Printed by Robert White, 1651.22 [Dedicated “To my beloved sister,
