Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 15 - L’Ernoult (or Lernoult)
L’Ernoult (or Lernoult).
This surname appears at Sandwich in 1571 in the French congregation, many of the members of which, and their families, had been suffering from sickness and poverty. Baltazar Ernoult made a journey on horseback with the minister in order to excite an interest in these poor members among the inhabitants of Dover; the hire of the two horses was 2s. 4d. He heads a list of subscribers with is.; Christofle Ernoult also gives is., and Jacques Lernoult 6d. This family afterwards settled at Canterbury, and became so well known that genealogists might find materials for a pedigree in the church registers.
In Nichols’ “Literary Anecdotes,” we are informed that Rev. Mr. Lernoult, of Wadham College, Oxford, and a young lady, Miss Anne Lernoult, his sister, were living on 10th October 1758.