her life in the second sheet, the word out in the third, and the words a diamond mourning ring of the value of 20 guineas in the fourth sheet being first interlined, and the word each in such fourth sheet first struck out, and the word such in the first sheet, and the word arise in the second sheet, and the words or names Mr William John in the fourth sheet being first wrote on erasures.
Before I signed the within will I read the same, and which is according to my direction, as witness my hand this 2 November 1769.
Proved at London, 29 November 1769, by Peter Romilly, Walter Bench, and Fenwick Lyddal, the executors named in the will.
Additional Note as to the Ouvry family. — Francisca Ingram Ouvry, whose beautiful Huguenot tales I have named in my vol. ii., page 261, has just published (1873) a third, named “Hubert Montreuil, or the Huguenot and the Dragoon.” To the tale is prefixed this inscription:— “To the memory of Louis de Marolles and Isaac Le Fevre, the comrades in the noble band of French martyrs who died for their faith in the reign of Louis XIV., this book is dedicated, as a chaplet twined by unskilled but reverent hands, and laid on their nameless graves.”
Chapter XXIV. (pp. 262-271).
The Raboteau Group of Families.
Most of the families of this group wore connected with the handsome and heroic Raboteau family, which is now represented in female lines only. (See the Sunday at Home, the volume for 1862.)
Page 267. The Du Bedat family descends from Matthieu Du Bedat, Advocate in the Parliament of Paris, an illustrious Huguenot, whose draft-memorial to Louis XIV. in behalf of the Protestants still exists in manuscript, and is among the treasures of the Royal Dublin Society. A translation of this document, with an imprint of the original, is given in my volume second, pp. 263-267.
Page 268. The family of Chaigneau descends from Chaigneau de Labellonière, near St Jean d’Angely.
Page 269. The ancestors of the famous Colonel Barré, M.P. and Privy Councillor, came from Pont-Gibaud.
Page 269. The family of Le Fanu descends from a Huguenot nobleman.
Page 270. From Esther and Marie Raboteau have descended families bearing the surnames of Phipps, Holmes, and Elwood.
Page 271. The refugee Raboteau is represented collaterally by families bearing the surnames of D’Arcy and Smythe.
Page 272. The Tardy family represent the Huguenot family of Tardy of La Tremblade in Saintonge.
Notes.
The above-mentioned Du Bedat M.S. is endorsed by one of the Vice-Presidents of the Royal Dublin Society, thus:—
“I received this Draft of a Petition from Willm. Dubedat, Bank of Ireland, 16 December 1834.
“Presented to the Royal Dublin Society on the 18 December 1834.I. B., V.P.”
It was through the Rev. Elias Tardy that I received a copy of the lithographed facsimile of the MS., with a view to its being printed in this work.
As to the Lefanu family, Mr Smiles gives the following account of their refugee ancestor. Etienne Le Fanu of Caen having, in 1657, married a Roman Catholic lady, her relatives demanded that the children should be brought up as Romanists. Le Fanu nevertheless had three of them baptized by Protestant ministers; the fourth was seized and baptized by the
