indication of his occupations for more than thirty years after the above date, yet he had evidently proved himself to be an able and accomplished man, and had obtained the approbation and esteem of the Earl of Sunderland. This led to his appointment by King George I., as tutor to his lordship’s nephews. In the Patent Rolls, under date 17th March 1715, His Majesty declares, “We are graciously pleased to allow for and towards the maintenance of the late Countess of Clancarty’s children and for their education in the Protestant religion, the annuity or yearly pension of £1000, and the same shall be paid to the hand of our trusty and well-beloved Peter Flournois, Esq., as from last Christmas, during pleasure.” At a later date he received the office of Clerk of the Robes and Wardrobes to His Majesty. Died, 1719.
(7). De l’ Hermitage (p. 149), was a literary man in Saint-Evremond’s circle, and said by Weiss to be “nearly related to Gourville,” and a French Protestant Refugee. A Monsieur de l’Hermitage appears as an English secretary in Robethon’s correspondence. He was probably the same as St. Evremond’s friend, and as the pensioner on the Irish establishment of 1715, as to whom there is the following entry:— “Renatus de Saumier d’Hermitage, residing in England, £500.”
NOTE.
Gourville was a French political agent and diplomatist, as to whom see Grimblot’s Letters of William III. and Louis XIV., Vol. I., Appendix I. His names and title were Jean Herault, Sieur de Gourville, (born 1625, died 1703).
(8). Henri Justel (pp. 149-150), born at Paris in 1620, was Secretary and Councillor to Louis XIV., and had a high place in the confidence of that king. As a great scholar and man of letters he was of the same reputation as his father, Christophe Justel (who died in 1649). He was the chieftain of Protestant controversalists, though his position at court compelled him to shelter among the anonymous. His “Answer to the Bishop of Condom’s [Bossuet]” Book, entituled, An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church upon matters of “controversie,” was translated and printed at Dublin in 1676. Dr Wake was much indebted to this remarkable book, in his later Reply to Bossuet. Justel was created D.C.L. of Oxford in 1675. It was in 1681 that he became a refugee in England. He was made Keeper of our King’s Library at St James’ Palace, with an annual salary of £200. Madame Justel (née Charlotte de Lorme), accompanied him. He died in 1693, and was buried at Eton.
NOTES.
Justel left a son and namesake, who became B.A. of Oxford in 1700, and M.A. in 1701. He appears on 14th May 1721, as Rector of Clewer in Berkshire, when he married Charlotte Francoise de la Croix, in the French Chapel Royal, St. James’ (Burn’s History, p. 158.) Mr Burn having accidentally allowed the name to appear as “Henry Tustel,” I wrote to the present rector on the subject, and received the following kind reply:— “Clewer, June 14th, 1872. Sir, In reply to your letter of the 12th, I have to say, after investigation, that the name of the Rector of this parish in 1721 was Justele, as evidenced by the entries of the baptisms of his children in 1721 and 1723. I remain, etc., Sydney M. Scroggs.”
Dr William Wake (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury), was well qualified to answer Bossuet, from personal acquaintance with French Protestants, and from having made researches in France regarding both them and their opponents. He possessed the gratitude of the French Protestant church for his long series of controversial pamphlets. A learned correspondent informs me that in the archives of Christ-Church, Oxford, there are thirty-one volumes of Wake’s correspondence, containing the originals of letters received by him and drafts of his replies. The French Church and its ministers being scattered at the date of his elevation to the see of Canterbury, their congratulations had to proceed from Switzerland — one address received by him was signed by Benedict Pictet of Geneva (1715) — another by Joh. Frid. Ostervald of Neufchatel (1716).
