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 Admiral Marquis Du Quesne (born 1610, died 1688).

Henri, Marquis du Quesne, a refugee, (born 1651, died 1722).

Abraham, a refugee in England.

Le Comte Du Quesne, died in St Domingo.

Gabriel Du Quesne, an officer in the English service. = Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Roger Bradshaugh, Bart.

Rev. Thomas Roger Du Quesne (born 1717, died 1793), Prebendary of Ely, unmarried.

(9.) De Gastine (p. 178), a territorial title, the family surname being Hullin. Matthew Hullin, Sieur de Gastine, was a refugee in England; a brother, also a refugee, was the Sieur d’Orval, and styled in England, Anthony Hullin D’Orval, Esq. On the 20th Dec. 1714, Matthew Hullin de Gastine, Esq. of Sunbury (Middlesex), died; he had married, 1st, Mary Hugueton, and 2dly, Mary Anna le Cordier. His only son, James Mark Hullin (born 1701), was the issue of the first marriage; he inherited £3666, 7s. 9d. The only daughter, named Susanna, was his child by his second wife.

One of the clan, Major De Gastine, was a refugee in Holland, and his daughter, Marianne, was married in 1728 to Rev. Anthony Aufrère. (All the above particulars are from the Aufrere MSS.)

In the Register of the Chapel de Hungerford, London, it appears, in 1703, that Mr Antoine Hullin D’Orval had been married to Susanne Gonyquet. See Burn’s History, p. 148.

(10). Monsieur Jacques Gastigny (pp. 178-179), was a Huguenot military refugee in Holland, and Master of the Buck Hounds to the Prince of Orange. He attended the king in his campaigns, and took part in the battle of the Boyne. In that campaign, Dumont de Bostaquet, desiring a favour from the king, entrusted his petition to “Monsieur de Gastigny, son Grand Veneur.” He appears in the patent Rolls as James Gastigny, Esq., receiving an English pension of £500 per annum, dating from 27th Feb. 1700. He died in 1708. He is worthy of all honour as the founder of the French Hospital of London. The street named Gastigny Place, near Bath Street, the site of the first Hospital buildings, is a memorial of him. A perusal of his will shews how much the Hospital scheme owes to the many wise councillors who followed up his idea. A royal charter was granted in 1718; it is printed at the beginning of the Book of Regulations, and the faulty spelling of proper names would lead to the conclusion that they are erroneously spelt in the grant. However that may be, the Index to the Patent Rolls has a nearly accurate entry:— “4 Geo. I., 24th July. Incorporates Henry de Massue, Marquis De Rouvigney, Earl of Galway, and divers others, by the name of Governor and Directors of the Hospitall for poor French Protestants, &c., and grants them divers liberties, &c.” The following is the Will:—

“In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, I underwritten, James Gastigny, being sound in body and mind, and considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour thereof, have made here my testament and declaration of my last will. First, I render thanks to God, with all my heart, that through his mercy he has called me to the knowledge of the truth of his holy gospel, having given me to make a public and constant profession, and that he hath led me during all the course of my life, having preserved me from many dangers wherein I have been exposed. I beseech him that he will extend more and more his mercy upon me, forgiving me all my sins through Jesus Christ, and doing me the grace to end my life in his fear and in his love, and to die in his grace, to be received in his eternal glory. When it shall please God to take me out of this world, I order that my body be interred in the nearest churchyard where I shall die, desiring that my burial shall not cost