and John Aubries of the Church of Bolloyne, exiled with others of the Gospel. [Strangers that go to the English Church : Mr Anthonie, preacher, of the city of Jeane.] Stephen De Grasse, an old French preacher, and his wife, go to the French Church. St Olyffe and Alhallows Staining : James Deroche, preacher, Frenchman, and Mary, his wife, Eastcheap : Peter Hayes, born in Rone [Rouen], goes to the French Church, and dwelleth with his son, the minister of St Buttolph. Tower Ward in St Dunstan’s Parish in the East : John Vouche, John Marny, John Bowthand, and Robert Philip, all ministers, being Frenchmen; Stephen Marvey, minister, and his wife. St Olyff and Alhallows Staining : James De Raché, preacher, and Mary, his wife. Blackfriars : Mr Cossyn, Frenchman, minister, and Preugen, his wife, come for religion, with three boys, with two wenches, which go to school, and are of the French Church. In St Martins-le-Grand : Peter Banks and Ursin, ministers of the French Church. And Olyver Rowland and Bustein, ministers of the French Church. And Nove Banet, Frenchman, minister.
1618. Bishopgate Ward : Abraham Aurelius, minister of the Fr. congreg. in London, b. in London. Charles Lebon, preacher, b. in Sandwich.
1621. Dovor : Mr Moyses Cartanet [Castanet?], minister and preacher of Godes word. Mr Aaron Blondell, minister and preacher of the word of God.
IV. — A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP.
Genealogists have succeeded in individualising the far-famed Peter Waldo, and have put on record that he died in Bohemia in 1179 — that he was unmarried — but that he had a married brother, Thomas Waldo,[1] whose children retired from their native town, Lyons, and settled in the Netherlands, where they were represented in the reign of our Queen Elizabeth. One of their name fled from the Duke of Alvas persecutions in 1568, and founded families in England; among them the tradition is that his name was Peter; at all events he was a Waldo, was twice married, and had eight children, of whom Lawrence and Robert left descendants. Robert Waldo founded a family at Deptford. The noteworthy persons of the Waldo stock descended from Lawrence Waldo, citizen and grocer, of the parish of Allhallows, Bread Street, London, who died in 1602. He had fifteen children, of whom the twelfth was Daniel Waldo (born 1600, died 1661), citizen and cloth-worker. From him and Anne Claxton, his wife, the persons of whom I have to speak, sprang. This second son was Sir Edward Waldo (born 1632, died 1707); he had a splendid town mansion, which, on occasions of public pomp and civic pageantry, was the resort of members of the Royal family, and where he received the honour of knighthood from Charles II. on 29th October 1677. Sir Edward was married three times, and is represented in the female line through the descendants of his first wife (Elizabeth Potter, an heiress) by Calmady Pollexfen Hamlyn, Esq., and Vincent Pollexfen Calmady, Esq. By his third wife he had one daughter, Grace, whose first husband was Sir Nicholas Wolstenholme, Bart., and who was married secondly to the eighth Lord Hunsdon. Sir Edwards maternal grandfather was a proprietor in Harrow-on-the Hill, and thus the Waldos took root in that classical region. In Harrow Church a marble monument stands with this inscription:—
Here lyeth ye body of
SR EDWARD WALDO, knight,
a kind and faithful husband, a tender and provident father,
a constant and hearty friend, a regular and sincere Christian,
eminently distinguished by an uninterrupt’d course of
charity and humility,
- ↑ I am enabled to give this memoir of the Waldo family through the kindness of Morris Charles Jones, Esq., who gave me copies of his privately-printed pamphlets concerning that family.
