old, he would like to have another pull at the moon. Maty’s Memoire sur la vie et sur les Ecrits de Mr Abraham De Moivre, p. 30. See my Volume II., p. 85.
P. 157. Durand. — Rev. David Durand wrote to M. Francois Durand, Docteur en Droit, Advocate at Leyden, supposed to be a relative, that at that date, January 1740, he could not assist his son in obtaining a pastoral charge in England; he speaks of the gradual falling off of the refugee congregations, and the difficulty of keeping them up. (See the Guernsey Magazine for 1873.)
P. 160. Dubuisson. Refugees of this family prospered in Britain, and are still represented. One representative is among Walford’s County Families. “William Du Buisson, Esq., eldest son of the late William Du Buisson, Esq. of Glynhir, by Caroline, daughter of James Henckell, Esq. of Wandsworth, Surrey. Born, 1818. Succeeded, 1828. Married, 1863, Mary, daughter of John Lawford, Esq. of Tottenham, Middlesex. Educated at Winchester and Oriel Coll. Oxford; is a J.P. and Deputy-Lieutenant for Carmarthenshire. Seat, Glinhyr, Llandilo.”
P. 164. Colomies. — A copy of the Will of Colomies is printed in Notes and Queries, second series, Vol. I., page 5; from it the following additional particulars are derived. He was Rector of Einsford in Kent, and left five guineas to the poor of that parish; but he lived in London. During his last illness, which was of six weeks’ duration, he sold his library. His executor and residuary legatee was Pierre Hamelot, son of his deceased cousin-german, Jerome Hamelot; other relatives were Elie Hamelot and the refugee pasteur, Rene Cheneau, cousins; also Marie Bouquet. His friends were, Pasteur Charles de Seines, and Jacques Arnaud or Arnaudin, surgeon, his medical attendant and host. The witnesses to his Will, which is dated 2d Jan. 1691-2, were Messrs Braguier and Paul Vaillant. His property seems to have amounted to about £100 sterling. None of the scepticism with which he has been charged appears in this last deed. On the contrary, this is his preamble:—
“Moy Paul Colomiés, Rector d’ Einsford en la Province de Kent, demeurant dans la ville de Londres, paroisse de S. Martin-in-the Fields, sain d’esprit par la grace de Dieu, declare icy à tous mes frères que je meurs dans la foy de J. Chr. mon Sauveur qui m'a aime et s'est donne soi-mesme pour moy, et dans l’esperance que Dieu me fera misericorde, recevant mon ame dans son Paradis, et ressuscitant mon corps au dernier jour pour me faire jouir de la felicité eternelle que mon Sauveur J. Chr. m’ a promise de sa part.”
P. 173. Dutry. Denis Dutry of London was created a baronet, 18th May17 16. — Historical Register.
P. 181. One of the officers in the service of Britain, killed at Piedmont, was Monsieur Brutel de la Rivière, son of Noble Gedeon Brutel de la Rivière, and Demoiselle D’ Audeniar, his wife, residents in Montpeliier (the father became a refugee in Lausanne), and brother of the Pasteur Jean Brutel de la Rivière, refugee in Holland.
P. 209. Barbauld. — L’ Honnéte Criminel was written by Fenouillot de Falbaire. The fact, on which it is founded, is the filial devotion of Jean Fabre (born at Nismes 1729). Although the self-devoted substitute of his father, he was awarded no mild sentence, but was sent to the galleys for life on March 11, 1756. M. de Mirepoix, minister of marine, obtained his release on May 22, 1762, after six years’ servitude. See Freville’s Beaux Exemples, Paris, 1817.
P. 212. Tryon. — This family ought to have been included in The Radnor Group. The following is from Smiles:— “ Peter Tryon, a wealthy refugee from Flanders, driven out by the persecutions of the Duke of Alva, succeeded in bringing with him into England as large a sum as £60,000. The family made many alliances with English families of importance. The son of the refugee, Samuel, of Lower Marney in Essex, was in 1621 made a baronet. The baronetcy expired in 1724.”
In Chapter XXVII. the following names occur:—
- P. 290. Waddington.
- P. 292. Porteus, Button, De Moivre.
- P. 293. Whitaker, Cobbett, Donisemount, Pooler, Webster, Polhill, Glover, Martin.
- P. 294. Fellowes, Frend, Earl of Sandwich, Lord Barrington, D’Oyley, Sir Philip Francis, Taylor, Wilson, Bradshaw, Dr Samuel Johnson, Goldsmith, Junius.
