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 In 1589 most of these returned to France. The following names afterwards occur. Jacques Guyneau (died 1592). George Chappelain (died 1592). Dominique Sicard (1592). Jean De la Vallée (1592). Samuel Loulmeau (1592). Daniel Dolbel (1596). Jeremie Valpy (1597). Nicolas Baudoin (recalled to Guernsey and reinstated in the Town Parish in 1599; died 1613, aged 87). Thomas Millet (1602). Samuèl De la Place (1603). Pierre Painsec (.604).  

Raoul (for Rodolphe) Le Chevalier has somewhat perplexed genealogists by having, unlike the refugees in general, assumed another surname during his wanderings. In the lists of 156S, he appears in London, as Anthonie Rodulphs, Professor of the Gospel in the house of Mr Sherrington; and further on, he is again noticed as “Mr Anthonie.” Some authors, ambitious of great accuracy, have therefore styled him carefully “Antoine Rodolphe Le Chevalier;” but, in fact, Antoine was not his name at all. He is usually spoken of as Rodolphus Cavallerius. He appears to have been Hebrew Reader in the University of Cambridge during the reign of King Edward VI., and Hebrew Tutor to the Princess Elizabeth (afterwards Queen). Flying from Bloody Queen Mary, he seems to have exercised his talents as pastor and professor in various places; we find his name associated with the Academy of Geneva and with the Reformed Church at Caen. From King Edward VI, he had received a patent, dated at Waltham, August 7, 1552, granting to him naturalization, and also committing in trust to Sir Anthony Cook, knight, and George Medle, Esq., that he should have the next prebend that should fall vacant in Christ’s Church, Canterbury. In 1568, he was again in England. In May 1569, Sir Anthony Cooke and Secretary Sir William Cecil (Chancellor of the university) had secured for him the appointment of Professor of the Hebrew Language and Learning in the University of Cambridge, and he went down with good letters of introduction. Secretary Cecil undertook to obtain a safe conduct into England for his wife and children. The following was a joint letter from Archbishop Parker and Bishop Sandys, “To our loving friends, Mr Vicechancellor of Cambridge, and to the Heads of the same”:— “Understanding of the good and godly affection that divers of your University bear to the knowledge of the Hebrew tongue wherein originally, for the more part, was wrytten the word of God. To the gratifying of the same, as we have in our former letters commended our Trustie and Welbeloved Rodolphus Cevallerius, otherwise called Mr Anthony, so we now send him unto you — a man, whom we have aforetime not only known in the same university,, but also have seen good testimony of his learning in the said tongue, and having more experience of his good zeal to exercise his said talent towards all such as be desirous to be partakers of the same. Whereupon this is to pray and require you to accept him as his worthiness for his learning and diligence (as we trust) shall deserve. Whereby you shall not onely your selves receive the fruit to your own commendations, but also give us occasion to devise for your further comnioditie as Almighty God shal move us, and our hability upon any occasion shal hereafter serve. And thus wishing to you the grace of God to direct your studies to His glory, and to the profit oi the Commonwealth, we bid you al heartily wel to fare : from Lambith this 20th of May. — Your loving friends,

On 27th January 1569-70, he was presented to his long-expected Prebend of Canterbury — Le Neve calls him Ralph Caveler — he was (says Strype) “admitted to the Seventh Prebend in that Church.” The latter writer (in his life of Parker) gives an abstract of his Will from which it appears that his wife (who survived him as his widow) was by name Elizabeth Le Grimecieux; she was (according to other accounts) a step-daughter of Emanuel Tremellius, the great Hebraist, who had preceded Chevalier at Cambridge. Chevalier seems to have been in France at the time of the St Bartholomew Massacre, and to have hastened homeward. But fatal illness arrested him in Guernsey, in which island he made his Will, dated 8th October 1572. He styles himself Rauf (or, Raoul?) Le Chevalier. He speaks of the fidelity and