On being relieved of his tutorship, he settled in Holland. Here he wrote his History of England, by which he is still so honourably remembered. He also published a “Dissertation sur les Whigs et les Torys,” 1717. Born, 1661. Died, 1725.
There is a splendid Memoir of “Rapin Thoyras sa famille, sa vie et ses oeuvres,” by Raoul de Cazenove, published in 1866, of which I gave a summary in my Volume II. But I must have failed to read the Proof carefully, for I have to apologize for the following errata:—
Page 157, line 13, and in many other places — for Chandane read Chaudane.
Page 157, line 13 — for correir read corrier.
Page 157, line 23 — for slendid read splendid.
Page 157, note — for familie read famille.
Page 157, note — for Rasul read Raoul.
Page 158, line 51 — for Maria de Richard read Marie de Pichard.
Page 159, line 5 — for Belcastle read Belcastel.
Page 15, line 30 — for, he became, read, to become.
Page 259, line 48 — for Mounsieur read Monsieur.
NOTES.
The following sentences, translated from Rapin’s History, well express his just abhorrence of persecution. (He treats of the reign of Elizabeth):—
“This is not the only time, nor England the only state, where disobedience in point of religion has been confounded with rebellion against the sovereign. There is scarcely a Christian state, where the prevailing sect will suffer the least division, or the least swerving from the established opinions — no, not even in private. Shall I venture to say that it is the clergy chiefly, who support this strange principle of non-toleration, so. little agreeable to Christian charity? The severity, which from this time began to be exercised upon the non-conformists in England, produced terrible effects in the following reigns, and occasioned troubles and factions which remain to this day.”
This celebrated refugee must not be confounded with his less known refugee kinsmen, who were the sons of Jean, Baron de Mauvers; that baron’s sons, by his wife Marie de Pichard, were Paul (Baron de Mauvers), Daniel, Francois, and Jean — the last three being refugees. Colonel Daniel Rapin (born 1649, died 1729) was the first French officer of the refugees who offered his sword to Holland; he served King William in Ireland as a captain, and became a colonel in the British army in 1700; in 1709, owing to some misunderstanding, he finally emigrated to Utrecht. Captain Francis Rapin was killed before the Castle of Charlemont in 1690, in which year his brother Major John Rapin of Belcastel’s regiment was also slain in fight.
(13.) Monsieur de Souligné (pp. 161, 162), who styled himself grandson of Du Plessis Mornay, was the author of two tractates: “The Desolation of France Demonstrated,” and “The Political Mischiefs of Popery.”
The following names occur in this Chapter: Conrart (pp. 141, 149), Earl of Galway (pp. 142, 147, 162), Loquet (p. 143), De Petigny (p. 144), De la Roche (p. 144), John Evelyn (pp. 144, 145, 146, 150), Sir Joseph Hoskins (p. 145), Sir Christopher Wren (p. 143), Henri Arnaud (p. 146), Parry (p. 147), Dean Wirkart (p. 147), Rev. Thomas Harmer (p. 147), Dr Adam Clarke (p. 148).
Page 148. Le Clerc, Lord Muskerry, Mr Justin Maccarty, Lord Spenser, Veillier, Clagett, Walker, De Noyer, Gamier, De la Combe de Clusell, Mesnard.
John Locke (p. 149), Rev. Dr Hickes (p. 149), Professor Weiss (p. 150), Des Maizeaux (pp. 153, 155), De la Baslide (p. 154), Misson (p. 155), Sir James Mackintosh (p. 156), Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (p. 156), Pelisson (pp. 159, 160), D’Allonne (p. 161), William Duncombe (p. 161), Archbishop Herring (p. 161), Earl of Portland (p. 162).
Page 148, line 37. For “OEdes” read “AEdes;” the dipthongs ae and oe in manuscript are hardly distinguishable, and in the proof sheets have occasionally been interchanged without correction.
