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Since the publication of my volumes, I have been fortunate in obtaining, as a correspondent, the representative of Vicomte de Laval. He informs me that the full name and designation of the noble refugee was Henri d’Albret d’Ully, Chevalier, Seigneur Vicomte de Laval. The refugee Vicomte’s son, David, went back to France, where he retained the title of nobility, and resided in the chateau of his ancient family. By his wife, daughter of Colonel Paravicini, he had several sons and three daughters. In 1751, on the rising of fresh troubles in France, he brought his daughters over to Portarlington, and left them with an aunt. He was again in France in 1755, but returned to Ireland, and spent his last days in Portarlington. The last Vicomte, Robert, died unmarried. One of Vicomte David’s daughters was not married. Frances was married to a gentleman of good family, and had two daughters, one of whom was Mrs Willis, wife of the Rev. Thomas Willis, D.D. The eldest daughter of David, Vicomte de Laval, was Mary Louisa Charlotte, wife of Gilbert Tarleton, Esq., of Portarlington. Her children were Harriette, wife of Monsieur Castelfranc; Edward Tarleton, Esq. of Dublin (born 20th Feb. 1764), and Captain Henry Tarleton, a military officer, killed in action. The heir of Edward Tarleton, Esq., is the Rev. John Rotheram Tarleton, rector of Tyholland, county of Monaghan, the representative of Vicomte de Laval. The chief relic, an heirloom, surviving from the refugee era, is an antique silver seal, having three faces engraved with — (1st) the arms of Vicomte de Laval; (2d) his monogram on a shield, surmounted by a French Vicomte’s coronet; and (3d) his wife’s portrait engraved on his heart, and surrounded with the sentimental motto,. Mr Tarleton cherishes the memory of his doubly illustrious French ancestry; one of his sons is Captain Edward De Laval Tarleton, of the Royal Artillery.

(S) Auriol (pp. 171-173). This was a noble French family, containing many eminent members. The refugees in England were James and Peter.

I. — James Aunol, spent most of his life at Lisbon, = Miss Russell,

James Peter Auriol, Esq.

General Charles Auriol.

Rev. Edward Auriol, Prebendary of St Paul’s, and Rector of St Dunstan’s in-the-West, London.

II. — Peter Auriol, merchant of London, died in 1754 (p. 316).

Henrietta = Honble. Robert Drummond, Archbishop of York.

(l) Robert Auriol, 9th Earl of Kinnoull. (2) Thomas. (3) Peter. (4) John. (5) Edward. (6) George.

All named “Auriol-Hay-Drummond.”

Abigail Drummond, whose early death is so pathetically memorialised by the poet Mason, was the daughter and eldest child of the Archbishop. [The epitaph by Mason is in the Church of Brodsworth, Yorkshire.]

Thus, from Dame Henrietta Auriol, or Drummond, there have descended three principal families:—

1st. The Earls of Kinnoull.

2d. The Drummonds of Cromlix and Innerpeffray.

3d. Her fifth son was Rev. Edward Auriol-Hay-Drummond, D.D. (born 1758, died 1829), father of Edward William Auriol-Drummond-Hay, Consul-General for Morocco (born 1785, died 1845), from whom descends the well-represented line of Hay-Drummond-Hay. 