The Rev. William Trollope, in his life of the author, prefixed to a new edition of Dr Jortin’s “Remarks on Ecclesiastical History,” informs us that he left, in writing, the following directions:—
“Bury me in a private manner, by daylight, at Kensington, in the church, or rather in the new churchyard, and lay a flat stone over the grave. Let the inscription be only thus:—
Joannes Jortin,
mortalis esse desiit,
anno salutis . . . .
setatis . . . .”
The Rev. T. B. Murray, rector of St Dunstan’s, supposed that the thought expressed in this epitaph was suggested by the conclusion of an old epitaph in the chancel of the church, dated 1697, on Francis March, a Turkey merchant:—
Ineluctabili morbo cessit, et mortalitati non vitas valedixit.
(8.) Page 277. Balthazar Regis, D.D., Canon of Windsor, who died in 1757, is supposed to have been of French Protestant ancestry.
(9.) Page 277. Rev. John Hudel was the son of a Huguenot named Udel.
(10.) Page 277. Rev. Jacob Bourdillon, born in 1804, was the son of a refugee.
(11.) Page 277. Rev. Jean Pierre Stehelin, F.R.S. (born 1688, died 1753), was a French pasteur, and a renowned linguist.
Notes.
I omitted to mention Stehelin’s rare volumes, valued by the booksellers at £3, 10s., entitled, “Rabbinical Literature, or the Traditions of the Jews contained in their Talmud and other mystical wTitings; likewise the opinions of that people concerning the Messiah, and the time and manner of His Appearing; with an enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of those Traditions,” two vols, 1748. I applied to an unfailing source — the Rev. A. B. Grosart’s library — and found that a very nice copy is there. The fortunate possessor describes the work as a collection of the quaintly absurd yet not altogether unmeaning usages of the ritualistic Jews, well put together, evidencing extensive reading, and occasionally introducing a pathetic legend.
The surname, Stehelin, is connected with the military service. In 1790 Colonel Stehelin was Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Military Academy. In 1818 Major-General Edward Stehelin, of the Royal Artillery, wrote to John Mackintosh, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon, recalling “the great zeal and attention paid by you in the execution of your duty as a medical officer under my command in the West Indies,” and, “a series of almost continued heavy rains while the operations were carrying on against the island of Martinique in the year 1809.” In the Times, August 1846, an advertisement appeared:— “The next of kin of the undermentioned will hear of something to their advantage by applying to Brundrett, Randall, Simmons, and Brown, 10 King’s Bench Walk, Temple, London, agents for the Registrar of the Supreme Court, Madras, namely, Captain E. B. Stehelin, H.M. 41st regiment Foot, 1827.”
(12.) Page 278. Rev. James Rouquet, curate in Bristol, and chaplain to the Earl of Deloraine (born 1730, died 1776), was the son of a refugee gentleman and martyr.
(13.) Page 279. Rev. William Romaine, M.A. (born 1714, died 1795), the justly celebrated London clergyman, was the son of a refugee merchant and corn-dealer, settled in Hartlepool. He was rector of the united parishes of St Andrew by the Wardrobe, and St Ann’s, Blackfriars.
Notes.
An interesting “Life of Romaine,” by Rev. Thomas Haweis, LL.B. and M.D., rector of All Saints, Aldwinkle, and chaplain to the late Countess of Huntingdon (London, 1797), contains graphic details, some of which I now quote.
