“These Bibles my honoured grandfather, Mr John Bauman, brought with him from Germany, his native country, when he fled on foot from the persecution there on account of the Protestant rehgion. ‘For he had respect to the recompense of the reward,’ (Heb. xi. 26.) ‘The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver,’ (Ps. cxix. 72.) ‘Be ye followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises,’ (Heb. vi. 12.)”
The following names occur in this chapter:— Wentworth (p. 193), Duke of Cumberland (pp. 194, 195, 197), Marshal Saxe (p. 196), Wade (p. 196, see also Vol. I. p. 183), Wolfe (p. 197).
Page 198. Marquis of Granby, Colonel Desaguliers, Lord Howe, Sir George Saville, Sir William Boothby, Earl of Eglinton, Professor Thomas Simpson, Earl of Chesterfield, J. F. Moore.
Lord George Sackville (p. 200), Marquis of Granby (p. 200), Alfieri (p. 201), Viscountess Wentworth (p. 201), Brunton (p. 202), Earl of Carhampton (p. 201).
Page 202, line 19. For 1778 read 1798.
Chapter XIX. (pp. 202-208).
The Caumont and Layard Group of Families.
Page 202. The Ducs Caumont de la Force were descended from Francois de Caumont, Seigneur de Castelnauth, who was killed in the St. Bartholomew Massacre. His son was the first duke, and the family was true to Protestantism until the persecution of 1685, when the fourth duke apostatized. The only refugee at the Revocation period was his wife, the Duchesse de la Force, née Susanne Beringhen, the mother of the fifth and sixth dukes. She died in London in 1731.
NOTES.
The Beringhen family were warmly admired for their constancy under persecution. The father (who was an Elder of Charenton), the mother, sons, married daughters, and daughters marriageable, all were severely tried.
Members of the La Force family had settled in England at earlier dates. In Chelsea there is the following epitaph:[1]—
D. O. M. S.
Elizabethae,
equitis Theodori de Mayerne Baronis Albona; filial,
Marchionis de Cugnac,
patre
Henrico de Caumont, Marchionis de Castel Nauth
et avo
Jacobo Nompar de Caumont, Duce de La Force
(primo Francipe Marescalo, regiorum exercituum
longum imperatore fortissimo fortunatissimo invictissimo),
nati,
Uxori dulcissimce lectissimse charissimre
XVP" post nuptias mense acerbo erejUre fato.
Conjux in amoris inconcussi et irruptre fidei monumentum
mocrens possuit.
Obiit Xmo Julii MDCLIII in pago Chelsey juxtâ Londinum.
Vixit annos XX., menses VL, dies III.
The lamented young marchioness was, as the reader has observed, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Theodore de Mayerne. Her sister, Adriana, was afterwards married to Armand de Caumont, Marquis de Mompouillan, another member of the Castelnauth De la Force family, probably a brother of De Cugnac. In the register of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, the intended
- ↑ Faulkner’s Chelsea, Vol. I., p. 210.
