and David, born after his arrival in England. He, finding a number of refugees in Canterbury, and induced by the convenience of the French church, resolved to fix there.”
P. 118. The correct account of Pierre Du Moulin’s escape from the massacre may be found in Bates’s Vitae.
The following is from Geeves’ Status Ecclesiae Gallicanae:—
“In the year 1615 King James sent by Sir Theodore Mayerne to invite Du Moulin into England, to confer with him about a method of uniting all the reformed churches of Christendom, to which he had been often solicited by Monsieur Du Plessis. The issue of which voyage was, that King James resolved to send letters to all Protestant princes to invite them to union, and desired the French churches to frame a confession, gathered out of all those of other reformed churches, in the which unnecessary points might be left out, as the means of begetting discord and dissension. Two months before Du Moulin’s coming into England, Du Perron had made an oration in the States assembled at Blois, where he had used the king very ill, and had mentioned that the Pope had power to depose kings; and having published it in print, he sent it to his Majesty. To answer that oration. King James made use of Du Moulin’s service for the French language; and it was printed the first time in French, while Du Moulin was in England, in that year 1615, before it was printed in English. The king, going to Cambridge, carried Du Moulin along with him, and made him take the degree of Doctor.”
P. 125. Waldo, line 30, For “this second son,” read “their second son.”
Elizabeth, eighth child of Daniel Waldo, a sister of Sir Edward, is represented by Rear-Admiral Sir William Saltonshall Wiseman, 8th Bart, and K.C.B. Her husband was Sir Edward Wiseman, knight, younger brother of the second baronet, but her great-grandson became the sixth baronet, on the failure of the senior line.
Waldo on the Liturgy was introduced with an Epistle Dedicatory, dated 9th March 1772, to Charles Jenkinson, Esq., one of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury. Sir Timothy Waldo, a kinsman of the author, left an only child, Jane, wife (from 1762 to 1797), of George Medley, M.P., in whose hands wealth accumulated to the amount of £180,000; she died in 1829. There was an affinity between the families of Medley and Jenkinson (Earl of Liverpool), and Mrs Medley’s large property was inherited by the late Earl’s daughters.
P. 117. Howie. — The Latin motto on the Howie gravestone being (as appears by the copy which I received) unfinished, I read it conjecturally. The result was a blunder. I have since learned that it is an old jingle, copied from an epitaph in St Olave’s, Hart Street, London:—
| Qu os H |
A nguis Sa |
D irus M |
T risti Ch |
D ulcedine M |
P avit L |
(Scots Magazine, vol. 71, p. 728.)
P. 147. Earl of Galway, § 2. The following evidence of his lordship’s residence in Greenwich, after his father’s death, is in the Parish Register.
1690-1, March 18. Henrietta Maria, daughter of John De Stalleur alias Dequestebrune, Esq., and Magdalena, his wife, born the 16th, and baptised 18th Mch. in the French Congregation, by Mr John Severin, minister. Mons. Le Marquess De Rovigny, godfather, and Mlle Dorvall, godmother. (Col. Chester’s MSS.)
P. 156. Robethon. — The full title of the pamphlet mentioned at the close of Robethon’s life was, “An Argument proving that the design of employing and enobling foreigners is a treasonable conspiracy against the Constitution, dangerous to the kingdom, an affront to the nobility of Scotland in particular, and dishonourable to the Peerage of Britain in general. With an Appendix, wherein an insolent pamphlet intituled. The Anatomy of Great Britain, is anatomized, and its design and authors detected and exposed. The Third Edition. London : Printed for the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1717.”
P. 157. De Moivre. — Sir Isaac Newton often said to De Moivre, that if he were not so
