NOTES.
The “Scots Magazine,” Vol. 35, contains the following inscription on Miss Drummond’s Monument:—
To Abigail Drummond, daughter of Robert, Archbishop of York, who lived, alas! only sixteen years this last duty is paid by her afflicted parents:
Here sleeps what once was beauty, once was grace,
Grace that with tenderness and sense combin’d
To form that harmony of soul and face.
Where beauty shines, the mirror of the mind.
Such was the maid who in the bloom of youth.
In virgin innocence, in nature’s pride,
Bless’d with each art that owes its charm to truth.
Sank in her father’s fond embrace — and died.
He weeps! O venerate the holy tear;
Faith lends her aid to bear affliction’s load;
The father mourns his child upon her bier.
The Christian yields an angel to his God.
How soon, alas, their bosoms bleed again!
See Charlotte in the dawn of life expire!
Another daughter lost renews their pain,
Another angel joins the heavenly choir.
With softest smiles of tenderness and love
She late could soothe a father’s manly breast,
And all a mother’s tender softness move;
Then smil’d a fond farewell! and dropp’d to rest.
Escap’d from present ills, from future care.
And many a pang that meets us here below.
She’s called thus early to yon brighter sphere —
With native sweetness smiles a cherub now.
A correspondent obligingly informs me that I was not correct in my conjecture as to the motive of James Auriol’s choice of Lisbon for his residence. It is probable he went there to join the house of Pratviel. The Pratviels were French Protestant exiles, said to have taken refuge on an island in the Mediterranean, but residing in Lisbon in 1727, the first year of the publication of the Factory Register. David Pratviel in his will, dated at Lisbon in 1742, and proved in London in 1759, names as his executor “my cousin and partner Mr Peter Auriol, merchant, at present in London.” Sarah Pratviel (daughter of David, who visited London in 1755) was married to Sir Charles Asgill, Bart., and was the mother of General Sir Charles Asgill, Bart., at whose death, in 1823, that baronetcy expired. Her daughter Amelia was the wife of Robert Colvile, Esq., whose eldest son. Sir Charles Henry Colvile, was the father of Charles Robert Colvile, Esq. of Lullington, late M.P. for South Derbyshire.
(6.) Montolieu de Sainte-Hippolite (pp. 173-176). This old family of Huguenot soldiers and martyrs was represented among British refugees by General David Montolieu, Baron de Saint-Hippolite. He served in our army, and was sent by Queen Anne’s government to serve under the Duke of Savoy in Piedmont. He returned among us at the Peace, rose to the rank of General, and died, aged 93. He is represented in the female line.
