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 :P. 395. Wolfe.


 * P. 296. Walpole, Earl of Shelburne, Earl of Chatham.


 * P. 297. Dunning, Pitt, Greatrakes, Junius, Britton.


 * P. 298. Phipps, Rose, Dunning, Cunninghame, Montgomery, Beresford, Roberts.


 * P. 299. Davison, Brougham, Barnes, Montgomery, Crabbe, Bedford.


 * P. 293. For Scriptures read Scriptores.

A name resembling the British surname of Maxwell, but spelt, was a good Huguenot name. I find in Rev. Mr Douglas’s Album, the name of Messire Jacques De Maxuel, chevalier, Seigneur de Champs, Du Hamier, Despine, &c., en Normandie, Huguenot Refugee at Berlin, Councillor of Legation to the Elector of Brandenburg, 1 Nov. 1687; also the name of Etienne De Maxuel [his son?J equerry of Prince George William, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, at Zell, 14 July 1687. [This Note is presented to my readers in France, whom I may refer also to an article in the Scots Magazine, vol. 72, p. 326, for a memoir of Monsieur Bitaubé, a descendant of a refugee family of Konigsberg.]

20 February, 2 William and Mary. — The King grants to Pierre Guenon de Beaubinson the office of Gentleman of the Bows. Fee £58, 5s. a-year.

Joseph Francis Lautour of Devonshire Place, Marylebone, late of Fort George in the East Indies, Free Merchant, descended from a respectable family of the city of Strasburg in Alsace, was living in 1807. Maria Frances Geslip, his second daughter, was married in 1809 to Robert Townsend Faquhar, Esq., created a baronet in 1821, and was the mother of the second and third baronets. Georgiana, his third daughter, was married, in 1808, to Edward Marjoribanks, Esq., and was the mother of Sir Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, Bart.

The following refugees from Normandy are named in Waddington’s Protestantisme en Normandie:— M. de Monceau of the parish of Méhoudin in the election of Falaise.

M. François Bunel de Boiscarré of the election of Pont-Audemer.

Suzanne Beloncle, wife of a protestant condemned to the galleys, named Daniel Caron, of Bolbec, became a member of the City of London French Church, 5 March 1687. At the same time, Jacques Bourdon, Jean Renaud, Jaques Salingue, Suzanne Bourdon, of Bolbec, were admitted.

Daniel Caron himself was admitted on 2 May 1693, when he declared that having unhappily signed an abjuration, he had attempted to escape from France, and for that attempt, he had been sentenced; but that in course of time he was set at liberty through the influence of his friends.

There were refugees from Havre, having the names of Lunel, Reauté, Godin, and Mouchel. M. Waddington says (p. 17) — “A Mutual Aid Society, called La Societé Normande, was founded in London in 1703, and still subsists (in 1855). We observe in its last report the names of Gosselin, Ferry, Levasseur, Mousset, de Boos, Le Bmment, Frigont, Geaussent, Durand, Levesque, Rondeau, Hautot, Lesage.”

The following advertisement was in The Times, 13 Sept. 1856:— “Important Estates (£40,000) of refugees from France —, relatives of Jean and Abraham Bunell, born 1736; Jean Delauney or Delaune; of Jonas Cognard, or Cougnard; Jean, Marc, Job, and Abraham Cognard; Benjamin Petit and Aimée Petit; Marie Simon; Jonas, Adam Simon; Marie Sortemboc. Apply by letter to Edward Manière, Esq., Solicitor, 31 Bedford Row.”

Information will be thankfully received by Mr E. Belleroche of Milton Cottage, Plaistow, London, E., about a member of the Corraro family of Venice, who became a Protestant and settled in France as Corraro de Belleroche. His descendant was living at Stutgard in 1718. There is a Chateau and village of Belleroche in the Beaujolais, and another in Le Forez. 