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Verneuil the Scots, rejoining Fairfax near Newport Pagnell in June. Just before the battle of Naseby he obtained leave to go to Holland on urgent private matters (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1644–5 passim; Hist. MSS. Comm. 6th Rep. App. pp. 57, 65; Lords' Journals, vii. 452, 456, 463;, v. 282; , Gods Ark, p. 42; , Anglia Rediviva, 1854, pp. 23, 29, 32; , Civil War, ii. 211, 237).

[Vermuyden's Discourse, 1642; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1619–56 passim; Lansd. MSS. 205 art. 24, 899 ff. 53 sqq.; Rawlinson MS. A. 12, ff. 109, 119; Hist. MSS. Comm. 9th Rep. App. p. 398, 11th Rep. pt. v. pp. 3, 6, 12th Rep. App. pt. iii. vol. i. p. 457, ii. 17, 20, 29, iii. 149; Commons' Journals; Thurloe's State Papers; Rushworth's Collection; Ludlow's Mem. ed. Firth, i. 120; Baillie's Journals (Bannatyne Club), ii. 276; Diary of Abraham de la Pryme (Surtees Soc.); Sir W. Dugdale's Hist. of Imbanking, 1662, pp. 82, 145; Samuel Wells's Hist. of the Drainage of Bedford Level, 1830, i. 92–289; Hunter's South Yorkshire, i, 160; Stonehouse's Hist. of Axholme, 1830; Carlyle's Letters of Cromwell, i. 217; Masson's Milton, iii. 327, 334; Markham's Life of Fairfax, pp. 120, 201, 205, 207; Van der Aa's Biographisch Woordenboek der Nederlanden; Smiles's Lives of the Engineers, ed. 1874, i. 19–45; Clarke's ‘Agriculture and the House of Russell’ in Journ. Roy. Agric. Soc. 3rd ser. ii. 124–6; Wiffen's Mem. of the House of Russell; J. S. Burn's Foreign Refugees, p. 101; Cunningham's Alien Immigrants, 1898, pp. 208–11; Gardiner's Hist. of England, Civil War, and Commonwealth and Protectorate, passim; Chambers's Journal, x. 213; Visitation of London (Harl. Soc.), ii. 310; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. iv. 21, 4th ser. i. 484, 5th ser. vii. 429, 6th ser. ii. 55, 99, 8th ser. iii. 429, 478, iv. 152, 297; Notes supplied by Mr. C. H. Firth.] 

VERNEUIL, JOHN (1583?–1647), sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library, was born at Bordeaux about 1583, and was educated at the protestant university of Montauban, where he graduated M.A. He is said by Haag (La France Protestante) to have become a refugee in England on account of his religion, but when admitted as a reader in the Bodleian Library his object in coming to this country is described as having been the furtherance of his studies. The entry in the register was as follows: ‘Jan. 31, 1608. Joh. Vernulius, A.M. in partibus transmarinis, et in Angliam in majorem bonarum artium profectum adventus’ (Wood MS. E. 5, Bodl. Libr.). He was at first (as we learn from the dedication to Sir Thomas, first baron Leigh, and his wife, of the translation of J. Cameron's tract, infra) ‘refreshed’ in England with a ‘liberal maintenance’ by Sir Thomas Leigh of Stoneleigh, and for some years ‘belonged,’ he says, to his grandson, the above-named first Lord Leigh. Wood tells us that he was afterwards assisted at Oxford by the authorities (among others) of Magdalen College. He was matriculated at Magdalen College at the age of twenty-five on 4 Nov. 1608, but did not proceed in the regular course of graduation, being at length only incorporated as M.A. from his native university on 13 Dec. 1625. He was appointed sub-librarian of the Bodleian in 1618, in which year entries are first found in his handwriting in the library registers (not, as stated by an evident misprint in the Annals of the Bodleian Libr., in 1647, which was the year of his death). In 1644 he was ill (apparently of the plague) for fourteen weeks. His death took place at his house at the Eastgate in Oxford, at the end of September 1647; he was buried on the 30th of that month in the church of St. Peter-in-the-East, ‘at which time,’ says Wood, ‘our public library lost an honest and useful servant, and his children a good father.’ Of his children, a son Peter paid over some money on his father's account to the library after his death. Verneuil was succeeded as sub-librarian of the Bodleian by John Berry, M.A., of Exeter College.

His publications were: 1. ‘A Sermon preached before the King's Maiesty at Greenwich, the 15th of Iune, 1615, by Master Peter du Moulin, newly translated out of French into English by I.V.,’ Oxford, 1620, 4to; dedicated to the curators of the Bodleian. 2. ‘A Tract of the Soveraigne Judge of Controversies in matters of Religion; by John Cameron … Divinity Professor in the Academie of Montauban; translated into English by John Vernevil, M.A.,’ Oxford, 1628, 4to. 3. ‘La descouverte de la cautelle du cœur de l'Homme, par Daniel Dyke; trad. de l'Anglois par Jean Vernueil’ (sic), Geneva, 1634, 12mo; dedicated to Charles Herbert, son of Philip, earl of Pembroke, on his leaving Oxford, which was at the age of fifteen. 4. ‘Catalogus interpretum S. Scripturæ … in bibl. Bodleiana; accessit elenchus auctorum … in libros Sententiarum, Aquinatis Summas,’ &c.; appended, anonymously, to John Rouse's ‘Appendix ad Catalogum Librorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana,’ Oxford, 4to, 1635. 5. ‘A nomenclator of such Tracts and Sermons as have beene printed or translated into English upon any place of Holy Scripture,’ Oxford, 1637, 12mo; 2nd edit., entitled ‘A nomenclator [&c.] now to be had in the most famous and publique Library of Sir Thomas Bodley in Oxford,’ Oxford, 1642, 12mo; dedicated ‘to the faithfull ministers of the Gospel.’