In Canterbury in the year 1567 we have encountered a Jean de la Forterie. In the same year another of the same name (disguised by the official enumerator of 1571) came to London:— “Tower Ward, St Dunstan’s Parish. Nicholas Furtrye, of Thile, merchant, came into this relme iiii. yeres past for religion; Margeret his wif; Margarett & Samuell, childeren; Michaell his servant; & haith in his house Gilam Jefrye, of Thile, who came ii. monethes past for religion; Elizabeth his wif; Elizabeth and Antonetta his children.”
The last name in my list is Jaques Tuillier, minister, with his wife and two children. Whether he was a Le Thuieullier, and whether this entry contradicts the received statement that that no Lethieullier took refuge in England at this period, I am not able to decide.
Having singled out the surnames of which I seem to know something, I proceed to give an abridged account of other members of the French Church as described in the “Searche” for 1571, where they are arranged according to the parishes within which they were then residing. I here arrange them according to the years of their arrival in England. The reader must not suppose that only those “came for religion” whom I have thus described. I might have copied this description of a very large proportion of the individuals, but for brevity’s sake I have omitted it, except for an occasional special reason. (I have not copied mispelt baptismal names as I did in the list of denizens, neither have I thought it necessary to copy the favourite letter Y when used for I, unless when I am copying verbatim and between inverted commas.
1558.
1559.
William Brunnam, Frenchman, embroiderer, and Denise, his wife — “came hither for the persecutions’ sake in France” (resident in 1571 within the tenement of Master Mathew du Quester).
John Sharfe, born in Rouen, goldsmith.
Charles Chartes [Chartres?] born at Dieppe in Normandy, servant to Francis Derickson in 1571.
John Millome [Milhomme?], Burgundian, silk-weaver, and his wife.
Giles Wier, Frenchman, silk-weaver, and his wife.
Nicolas Remy, born at Mouse in Henego, silk-weaver, and Marie, his wife.
Peter Philater, born in Normandy, liveth by silk-working.
Giles de Milcam, born at Newfeld, by Ricell in Flanders, silk-weaver, and Clare, his wife; she came in 1561. John Mountaine, their servant, born in Brussels; came in 1571 for religion. Their other servant, Symonde Bewfatt, in the same year, “cam to seeke his father and mother, who now be deade, and he remayneth servant as aforesaide.”
Peter Shatelyn [Chatelain?], born in Artois, silk-weaver; Magdalen, his wife, and Daniel and Esaie, his sons. (In 1571 he was an ancien of the French Church.)1560.
William Yollone, Frenchman, joiner.
Nicolas Byshowe [Bichôt?], born in Burgundy, silk-weaver, and Catherine, his wife.
Jane Carrey [Carre?], widow, mother-in-law of Nicolas Bistowe.
Peter Foye; of Tournay, silk-weaver, Jane, his wife, and five children.1561.
Nicolas Formoise, born in Lusiers in France, cutler, and Thomasine, his wife. (John Norishier, his servant, born in Paris, came in 1571 and joined the French Church.) Peronne Kirton, widow, born in “Luke’s” in Flanders.
Romaine Mainmora, born in Rouen, and Frances, his wife (she came in 1564; he became servant to Mr Daye, printer).
Margaret Delavais, liveth by making silk lace.
- ↑ Where I have materials, I have made the accounts of a wife or children to apply to the year of a refugee’s arrival in England; but in this case, and in most cases, the state of the family in 1571 is all that I know.
