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 treated thus. He was embarked in a foreign vessel, and by no sign could he discover that there was anything but what was dark in his prospects. It was not until he was in full sail for England, that the captain dared to inform him of the fact. Benoist adds, that the most of those thus exiled by sea were sent to England, where, at the date of 1688, the probability of the establishment of Popery in England was so great, that it seemed they were only to exchange one scene of persecution for another.]

(18.) Pp. 235-6. Major Achilles La Colombine, died in Carlow in 1752.

In 1689, died at Dundalk, Monsieur Bonel, son of Fresne-Cantbrun of Caen by his wife, a daughter of Secretary Cognart. In 1690, at the siege of Limerick, the first sortie was repulsed, but it left the Marquis de Cagny mortally wounded; his name was Gedeon-Mesnage, and he was the son of Louis, Sieur de Cagny, and Marie de Barberie de Saint-Contest; he had married a daughter of a distinguished physician, Francois de Mouginot, and had been with his father-in-law, imprisoned for two years in the Bastile and in the Castle of Angers. At the last assault on Limerick in 1690, Monsieur Martel, grandson of the Baron de Saint-Just, was killed just as he had entered the breach and was shouting Ville gagnée; at the same time were wounded Colonel Belcastel, and Messrs Bruneval and La Motte Fremontier; the French infantry officers were in the van and commanded by the Sieur de la Barbe; the English Grenadiers were commanded by Le Bourgay, who was taken prisoner. At the same siege was killed Lieutenant Maurice de Vignolles of Belcastel’s, a grandson of Vignolles de Montredon and Claude de Belcastel, his wife.

In 1704, at the battle of Schellenberg, were wounded Ensign Denys Pujolas of the Footguards, Ensign Bezier of Webb’s, Ensign Pensant of Hamilton’s, Lieutenant Jeverau of Ingoldsby’s, Lieutenant Tettefolle of the Cavalry. At the battle of Blenheim, Major Chenevix, of Windham’s Horse, was killed, and the following were wounded, Captain La Coude of Marlborough’s, Captain Pennetiere of Hamilton’s, Captain Villebonne of How’s, Lieutenant Boyblanc of North and Grey’s, Lieutenant Beiser of Webb’s, Cornet Creuseau of Schomberg and Leinster’s Horse. In 1707, at the battle of Almanza, Captain Justeniere of Southwell’s, Captain Cramer and Lieutenant Doland of Hill’s, Captain Digoine and Ensign Ferrer of Wade’s and Lieut.-Colonel Deloches of Pierce’s, were killed; and the following were made prisoners, Lieut.-Colonel Magny of Nassau’s, Captain Saubergue of the Guards, Lieutenants Morin and Champfleury of Mordaunt’s. Captain Bemiere of Gorge’s, Captains Latour and Hauteclair, and Ensign Lamilliere of Wade’s, Lieutenant Labastide of Montjoy’s, Lieutenant Gedouin of Britton’s. (Colonel Armand de la Bastide was Governor of Carisbrook Castle in 1742.)

In the Ulster Journal, vol. iv., the admirable article on French settlers in Waterford (by Rev. Thomas Gimlette), notes the following officers:— Major Sautelle (whose heiress was Mary), Quartermaster Peter Chelar, Captains Louis du Chesne, Abraham Franquefort, John Vaury, and Louis Belafaye; Lieutenants Emmanuel Toupelin Belize and Besard de Laniaindre. A similar article on Youghal notes the deaths of Cornet Daniel Coluon (1738), Captain James Dezieres (1747), Lieutenant Pierre Mazière (1746), Ensign John Roviére (1736); a site in Youghal is still called “Roviere’s Holdings.”

Some of the names, extracted from lists of killed and wounded, are of Huguenot sound, and were inserted without any absolute proof of their right to appear. Subject to the same remark, the following are added — Lieutenant-Colonel De Labene, Lieutenant-Governor of Tynemouth Castle, died in 1722; Major De Ladle, died in 1739.

(19 ) Colonel La Fabrêque, who signalised himself at the battle of Almanza, was not at the head of Guiscard’s dragoons, as stated in Tindal’s continuation of Rapin, unless his own regiment had recently been under Guiscard’s colonelcy, and had continued to be ignorantly so named by some. It appears from the lists published in the State of Great Britain for 1707, that Guiscard had no regiment in British pay; but among colonels of English dragoons the name “La Fabrique” occurs. 