Boyne was, according to the old style, on the 1st July (though now celebrated on July 12th), and two days after, Dublin felt the results. “How did we see the Protestants (writes Mr Bonnell) on the great day of our Revolution, Thursday the Third of July .... congratulate and embrace one another as they met, like persons alive from the dead!” Mr Bonnell soon formed a firm resolution to become a clergyman, and after long negociations he agreed with a gentleman to be his successor in his office under government. In the end of 1693 he married Jane, daughter of Sir Albert Conyngham, by whom he had two sons, Albert and Samuel (who predeceased him) and one daughter. His feeble health did not permit him to receive holy orders, and a malignant epidemic fever was the cause of his early death, (i.e. in the 46th year of his age), on the 28th April 1699. Now (said he), must I stand or fall before my great Judge. It was answered that no doubt he would stand firm before Him, through the merits of our crucified Saviour. His reply was, It’s in that I trust. He knows it’s in that I trust. He was buried in St John’s Church, Dublin, and his epitaph was contributed by Bishop King (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin).[1]
P. M. D.
JACOBI BONNELII, ARMIGERI,
Cujus exuviae unà cum Patris et duorum filionmi Alberti et Samuelis juxta sitae sunt.
Regibus Carolo IIdo Jacobo IIdo. et Gulielmo IIIio.
Erat a rationibus generalibus, in Hiberniâ, temporibus licet incertis, fidus —
ab omni factione immunis, nemini suspectus, omnibus charus.
Natus est Novembris 14o. 1653.
Patre Samuele, qui, propter suppetias Regiae Familiae exulanti largiter exhibitas,
Officio Computatoris-Generalis Fisci Hibernici, Ano Dom. 1661 unà cum filio remuneratus est —
Avo Daniele —
Proavo Thomâ qui sub Duce Albano, Religionis ergo, Flandriâ patriâ suâ exul, Norvicum in Angliâ profugit, ubi mox civis, et demùm praetor.
Pietate avitâ et penè congenitâ, imò primaevâ et Apostolicâ,
Eruditione, prudentiâ, probitate, comitate, et morum simplicitate conspicuus —
Mansuetudine, patientiâ, et (super omnia) charitate insignis —
Urbem hanc, exemplo et praeceptis meliorem, morte maestam, reliquit.
Obiit Aprilis 28, 1699.
Monimentum hoc ingentis doloris publici,
proesertim sui, exiguum pro meritis, posuit conjux moestissinia
Jana e Coninghamorum gente.
Another eminent refugee from Ypres was Francis La Motte, son of Baldwin La Motte. Francis La Motte and Mary his wife fled from “the great persecution in the Low Countries under the bloody and cruel Duke of Alva.” They had hesitated whether their place of refuge should be Frankendale in the Palatinate or England, and providentially choosing the latter country they, in the fourth year of our Queen Elizabeth, settled at Colchester, having made “piety their chiefest and greatest interest, and the free exercise of religion their best purchase.” This phraseology I copy from the life of their son, John, included in Clark’s Lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age (London 1683), a life abridged from a separate memoir. To
- ↑ His funeral sermon was preached by Bishop Wetenhall. The Bonnell motto was Terris peregrinus et Hospes.
