Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Rye
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Rye.
A communion flagon of the parish church of Rye has this inscription —
“This flagon, used at the celebration of the Lord’s Supper by the minister of the Protestant Refugees, who found an asylum at Rye after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 22nd October 1685, was presented for the use of the Church to the Vicar and Church Wardens of Rye by William Holloway, and Sarah, his wife, formerly Sarah Meryon, a descendant of one of the refugees, 5th May 1860.”
The original refugee surname was probably Merignan. (See Naturalisations, List iv.)