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 sent his family to England at the beginning of the dragonnades, for which offence he was imprisoned; he managed to escape in a boat to a ship of his own, and the pilot steered him and his cargo to England. Two of his sons are on record : Isaac, wlio was killed at the Battle of the Boyne, and Auguste, who died in America in 1751, aged 86; John Jay, the President (born 1745, died 1829), was his grandson, the eighth of ten children. Elias Boudinol (born 1740, died 1821) was the other President.  

(1.) Le Marquis De Miremont (pp. 42-54, 314). The refugee nobleman who bore this courtesy-title, was Armand de Bourbon, second son of a Marquis de Malauze, and brother of Guy Henri, 3d Marquis de Malauze. Miremont’s elder brother apostatized, and his sister Henriette was forcibly detained in France. His other sister, Charlotte, was a refugee with him, as was his brother, Louis, Marciuis de la Case, who was killed at the Battle of the Boyne. He was a nephew of General, the Earl of Feversham, and distantly related to the Prince of Orange. He rose to the rank of Lieut.-General, and died in 1732. He zealously seconded the beneficent and successful labours of the Marquis de Rochegude on behalf of Huguenots in the French galleys (pp. 47 to 53).

My correspondent, Colonel Chester, supplied me with authentic dates regarding Miremont, for which I provided space at p. 314; but I made matters worse by allowing a misprint to remain in that addendum. Here, at last, I give the facts, from the Westminster Abbey Register, correctly:—

Armand de Bourbon, Marquis de Miremont, né au Chatteau de la Cate en Languedoc le 12 Juillet 1656, decedé en Angleterre le 12 Fevrier 1732.

(2.) Major-General John Cavalier (pp. 54-66) was the far-famed Jean Cavallier, the famous Camisard chief. On escaping from France in 1794, he halted at Lausanne, and there he received an invitation from the Duke of Savoy, which he accepted. On arriving at the camp, he obtained the special protection of our Ambassador, the Right Hon. Richard Hill. I accidentally omitted in its proper place Mr Hill’s principal attestation as to Cavalier’s abilities and character. This I had to insert at p. 315. I reproduce it here:—

“Turin, 5th Nov. 1704. I am glad the Queen was pleased to approve of what I did for M. Cavallier I should say nothing of him now, if I were not amazed so oft as I see him. A very little fellow, son of a peasant, bred to be a baker, at 20 years of age, with 18 men like himself, began to make war upon the King of France. He kept the field for eighteen months against a Mareschal of France and an army of 10,000 men, and made an honourable capitulation at last with the mighty Monarch. It is certain, that he and his followers were animated with such a spirit of zeal for their religion which is the true enthusi;ism. I fear they may lose that temper of mind in the commerce of the world, though they are very devout and very regular. I therefore will do all I can to get them back into France, where one Camisard is worth 100 refugees.”

No irruption into France was effected. In 1706, Holland and England gave him a commission of Colonel to raise a volunteer regiment. At the head of this regiment he fought at the Battle of Almanza, and was severely wounded, and his men cut to pieces. In 1707 he retired as an English Colonel; and, being a young man, he received no promotion till 1735, when he became a Brigadier. In 1738 he was promoted to the rank of Major-General. He died in 1740, in his 60th year, and was buried in Chelsea Churchyard. Between 1707 and 1727 he spent many years at Portarlington. There he employed himself in writing for the press, and in making arrangements for publishing a book, entitled '“Memoirs of the Wars in the Cevennes under Colonel Cavallier, in defence of the Protestants persecuted in that country,