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(1.) Le Sieur dc La Caillemotte (pp. 1, 2.) — Pierre de Massue de Ruvigny. second son of the Marquis de Ruvigny, and younger brother of the Earl of Galway was born at Paris, 4th January 1653, and was killed at the Battle of the Boyne, 12th July 1690.

(2.) La Marquise de Ruvigny (page 2). — The widow of the old Marquis de Ruvigny made her will, 14th May 1698. Rachel Lady Russell, in 1699, made overtures to the King of France through our ambassador as her heiress; and at the same time applications for estates in France were forwarded on behalf of Sir William Douglas, Monsieur Le Bas, and Mrs Mary Cardins (page 3). See Cole’s State Papers.

(3.) Colonel Ruvigny De Cosne (page 3 and page 314). — Aimée Le Venier de la Grossetière, niece of the Marquise De Ruvigny, was married to Pierre De Cosne (probably a scion of the house of Cosne-Chavernay) a refugee gentleman at Southampton. The children of this couple, registered at Southampton, were Rachel Henriette (born 1708), Louise (born 1709), Charles (born 1710), Henriette (born 1714), Antoine (born 1715), Ruvigny (born 1717). See Lord Galway’s Will.  

Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet, the heir of an ancient Norman family, was born in 1632. He was a cornet of cavalry, but retired on his marriage in 1657, and lived as a country-gentleman till 1687, when he became a refugee in Holland, and was enrolled in the Dutch army as a captain of cavalry. Madame de Bostaquet (his third wife, Marie de Brossard, daughter of the Chevalier de Grosmenil) and his surviving children, settled with him at the Hague on 22d March 1688.

Page 7. The expedition of the Prince of Orange into England soon interrupted this domestic life. De Bostaquet joined it as a cavalry officer. The Huguenot cavalry were provisionally enrolled in two regiments of blue and red dragoons. The officers of “the Blues” [les bleus] were Colonel Petit, Captains Desmoulins, Petit, Maricourt, D’Escury, Montroy, Neufville, Vesansay, Montaut, and Bernaste; Lieutenants Quirant, Louvigny, Moncornet, Tournier, Le Blanc, D’Ours, Fontanes, Bernard, Senoche, Serre, and Ruvigny; Cornets Martel, Dupuy, Darouvière, De Lamy, Lassaut, Salomon, Larouvière, La Bastide, De Bojeu, De Gaume, and Constantin.

The officers of “the Reds” [les rouges] were Colonel Louvigny; Captains Bostaquet, La Grangerie, Passy, D’Olon, Vivens, Varenques, and La Guiminière,- Lieutenants Boismolet, Mailleray, Clairvaux, Vilmisson, La Caterie, D’Ornan, and Rochebrune; Cornets Vasselot, Maille, Maille (brother), D’Olon, jun., Du Chesoy, Montpinson, and Ricard.

It appears from the above list that De Bostaquet, who had then nearly completed his 57th year, was Senior Captain of Louvigny’s red dragoons. He gives a lively account of the embarkation and voyage to our coast, then of the disembarkation. 