Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 23 - Canon Heurtley
Canon Heurtley. — The Huguenot refugees, bearing the ancient name of Heurteleu, retained their surname unchanged for a long time, but their descendants have anglicized it. Canon Heurtley has in his possession a passport, dated 16th July 1613 (signed by Turenne, father of the Marshal), granted to M. Heurteleu, Sieur du Creux, control leur de la maison de Monsieur le Prince. The refugee’s name was Abel Heurteleu; he was of the Province of Brittany, in or near Rennes; a letter, which is still preserved, dated in 1728, from the Marquis de Bordage, shows that the writer had been an intimate friend. (The Marquis had abjured Protestantism under severe pressure, and afterwards suffered for attempting to escape from France, with his father, mother, and sister. See Vauirigand’s Histoire des Eglises Reformées.) The date of M. Heurteleu’s arrival in England has not been ascertained. He had a daughter, Madame Vidal de Gosné; two letters from her are preserved, from Rennes, dated in 1752 and 1754. The refugee resided in London in Red Lion Square, and was alive in 1728. His son, Captain Abel Heurteleu or Heurtley (son of Abel and Catherine), was born in London on 10th September 1707; he served in Scotland against the Pretender in 1745-46, was taken prisoner and confined in the Castle of Inverness, but escaped by bribing the sentinel. He had a son, Charles Abel Heurtley (born 1740, died 1806), father of the Rev. Charles Abel Heurtley. This eminent divine was educated at Oxford, and became B.A. in 1827 with first class honours in mathematics, and was Ellerton Theological Prizeman in 1828; he was Fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1832 to 1841 , and Select Preacher at Oxford in 1834, 1838, and 1851. He became Rector of Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, in 1840, and Bampton Lecturer in 1845. He was made an Honorary Canon of Worcester in 1848, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Margaret Professor of Divinity in that University in 1853; the last two honours he still enjoys and adorns. Canon Heurtley’s publications are numerous and valuable, namely:—
1. Plain Words about Prayer, 1833.
2. Manuals for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, namely, Instruction for Adult Candidates for Baptism, Family Prayers, Tractate on Public Worship, Answers to Objections about godfathers and godmothers.
3. Sermons and Tracts for Christian Seasons.
4. University Sermons, 1837.
5. On the Union between Christ and His People, 1842; 2nd ed., 1851.
6. Bampton Lecture on Justification, 1845.
7. Parochial Sermons, four series, 1849, 1850, 1852, and 1868.
8. Mutual Dependence, the Link of Society, 1857.
9. The Repentance of Judas, 1858.
10. Harmonia Symbolica, a collection of creeds belonging to the ancient Western Church, 1858.
11. Essay on Miracles, in reply to Essays and Reviews, 1862.
12. The Form of Sound Words and other Sermons, 1864.
13. De Fide et Symbolo, tractatus tres, 1864.
14. The Doctrine of the Eucharist, 1867.
15. The Doctrine of the Church of England touching the real Objective Presence, 1867.
16. Documenta, necnon aliquorum SS. Patrum tractatus, de Fide et Symbolo, 1869; 3rd ed., 1884.
17. Sermons on some subjects of recent controversy, 1871.
18. The Athanasian Creed — reasons for rejecting Mr. Ffoulkes' theory as to its age and author, 1872.
19. The Resurrection of our Lord in its relation to supernatural religion, 1875.
20. Two Sermons on the Future of the Ungodly and on Eternal Life, 1878.
21. Translation of St. Leo’s Epistle to Flavian, 1885.