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 fil.,” his father’s name being J. Lion. He took his B.A. degree as of All Souls College, 13th Feb. 1695-6; M.A., 21st Feb. 1703-4. He was for nearly forty years minister of Spalding in Lincolnshire. There his daughters Mary and Susannah, who died young, were buried; also his wife, who died 16th April 1747, aged 73, (Grace, daughter of George Lynn, Esq. of Southwick, in Northamptonshire); and the Rev. Stephen Lyon himself, who died 4th Feb. 1748,, aged 74. Ezekiel Lion, M.A. of the University of Bordeaux, was incorporated at Oxford, 16th May 1704. — (Colonel Chester’s MSS.)

(17.) Rev. Annand Boisbeleau, Sieur De la Chapelle, was a refugee youth, who was ordained by the French Churches in England, and began his ministry in Ireland. He afterwards served in the refugee churches in London, and seems to have finally settled at the Hague. — (Smiles’s Huguenots.)

(18.) Rev. Henri Chatelain was born in Paris, 22d February 1684. He was the great-grandson of Simon Chatelain (born 1590), the famous Protestant manufacturer of gold and silver lace. This lace was a much-prized article. It procured for the stedfast Huguenot the toleration of his religion, in which he was zealous from the fifteenth year of his age to the eighty-fifth, which proved to be his last. In 1675 he died, leaving more than eighty descendants, who all paid fines for openly attending his funeral. Henri’s grandfather was Zacharie Chatelain (born 1622), and was married to Rebecca Bonnel. On old Simon’s death, he was harassed with a view to a forced apostasy; but at length, in 1685, he fled to Holland in disguise. For this offence he was hanged in effigy, and his house at Villers-le-Bel was razed to its foundation. He died at Amsterdam in 1699, having had five daughters, and an only son. This son, the second Zacharie Chatelain, was married to Catherine Bonnel, and had an infant family before he left France. He was thrown into the Bastile in 1686, and on being set at liberty, removed to Holland with his wife and children. There he introduced the gold and silver lace. His eldest child, Henri, studied for the ministry at Amsterdam and Leyden; and having removed to England in 1709, he was ordained by the Bishop of London on the 3d October 1710. He was pasteur of the Church of St Martin Orgas (St Martin’s Lane) from 1711 to 1721, when he removed to the Hague, and in 1727 to Amsterdam, where he died on the 19th May 1743. His sermons were published in six volumes, with his portrait, bearing the motto, “Flexanimo sermone potens.” [This was one of the articles in my privately printed volume, for which I could not find room in the second edition. The facts are from Haag.]

(19.) Rev. Stephen Crespion, M.A., Oxon. (born 1649, died 1711), was a son of “Jerem” (or Germain) Crespion, by Cornelia, eldest daughter of Stephen Nau and Cornelia, his wife. He held the preferments of prebendary of Bristol from 1683, chaunter of Westminster Abbey from 25th July 1683, and confessor to the royal household from 1692. He marned, first, Margaret, secondly, Mary, , — (Colonel Chester’s MSS.)

(20.) There were two French Churches in Dublin, namely, in Lucy Lane and Peter Street, until 1707. At the latter date the congregations united, and met in Peter Street. The names of the ministers were Joseph Lagacherie, 1692; Robert Balaguier, 1693; John Darassus, 1695; John Guillebert, 1701, Henri De Rochblave, 1703; Pons; John De Durand; Paul de St Ferreol, 1716, Paul de la Douespe, 1717; Gaspard Caillard, 1720; Jacob Pallard, 1724; Vinchon Desvoeux, 1735; Louis Ostervald, 1735; Jacques Pelletreau, 1741; Pierre Samuel Hobler, 1742; Isaac Subremont, 1760; Louis Campredon, 1760; Francis Bessonet, 1765; Francis Campredon, 1781. [Two small Episcopal societies united in a congregation which assembled within St Patrick’s Cathedral.]

(21.) Monsieur L’Alouel, pasteur of La Moussaye, became a refugee in England in 1686. Before he could embark at Dieppe, he was arrested as a fugitive, and imprisoned until it should be proved that he was a pasteur; and during the process of examination and investigation all his money was lost. Some of the refugees were too infirm to endure the voyage to England; Monsieur Faget, pasteur of Sauveterre, in Bearn, died in the passage; he was buried in the country which he had sought as a refiige. — (Benoist, tome 5, pp. 934-5-6.) 