| [Rev.] Nicolas Basnage, of Norwich and Carentan | |||||||
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| Timothée = a daughter of | Tite = Tite | Benjamin = pasteur of Sainte-Mère-Eglise, born 1580; died 1652. | |||||
| Adrien Languelair. |
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| Anne, born 1610. |
Benjamin, born 1618. |
Tite, born 1636. |
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| Antoine, born 1610; died 1691. Refugee in Holland in 1685; pasteur of Zutphen. |
Henri, born 1615; died 1695. Advocate in the Parliament of Rouen. | ||||||
| Samuel, born, 1638; died, 1731. Also a refuge preacher at Zutphen; Author of “Annales Politico-Ecclesiastici a Caesare Augusto usque ad Phocam,” 3 vols, folio, 1706. [In reply to the twelve folio volumes of Baronius.] |
Jacques,[1] born, 1653; died, 1723. Pasteur of the Hague from 1709; Author of “Histoire de la Religion des Eglises Reformers,” 2 vols. 12mo., 1690. [in reply to Bossuet]; “Lettres pastorales sur le renouvellement de la persecution,” 1698; “Annales Histoire de l’Eglise depuis Jesus Christ jusqu’ a present,” 2 vols, folio, 1699; “Histoire des Juifs,” 5 vols. 12mo., 1706, translated into English as “Basnage’s History of the Jews,” folio, 1708. |
Henri, born, 1656; died, 1710. An advocate, and a refugee in Holland, Author of “Traite de la tolerance des religions,” 1684, and “L’histoire des ouvrages des savants,” 24 vols., 1687-1709. | |||||
Chapter IV.
THE EARLIEST REFUGEES IN SCOTLAND.
Pierre de Marsilliers is the earliest name of a French Protestant in Scotland, probably an exile. He was Master in the Greek school of Montrose, founded by John Erskine of Dun, and had Andrew Melville as his scholar in 1557 and 1558.
No account of the reception of refugees from the St. Bartholomew massacre can be found. There is a blank in the extant Minutes of the Town Council of Edinburgh from 4th June 1571 to 13th November 1573, and in the City Treasurer’s Accounts from 1567 to 1579. The Town Council had an interview on 13th November 1579 with John de la Mothe, Frenchman. The Minute indicates that some Huguenots in “the Rochelle” had been in Scotland as refugees, and that while there, a Scotch-man had borrowed money from them and had not yet paid them; there was a lawsuit on this matter in the Scotch Courts against Paytrik Tournett, the debtor, and Peter Tournett, burgess of Edinburgh, his father, as the son’s surety. De la Mothe, as the creditors’ procurator, asked and obtained the needful arrestments.
The baptismal register of Aberdeen begins in 1563, and when we come to the year 1572, we find evidence of the interest taken by Scottish Protestants in the Huguenots of France. In that year Mr John Craig was minister, and Mr Walter Cullen was reader, in the kirk of Aberdeen. The latter acted as registrar, and on hearing the news of the massacre on St. Bartholomew’s Day, he wrote the following entry, with the rubric, “cullen admerall of france” in the register-book:—
- ↑ See what appears to be his promise of marriage in my “Gleanings from Old Registers,” in the Historical Introduction to this volume, date 9th march 1684 (new style), register of Canterbury French Church.
