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 Boyne was, according to the old style, on the 1st July (though now celebrated on July 12th), and two days after, Dublin felt the results. “How did we see the Protestants (writes Mr Bonnell) on the great day of our Revolution, Thursday the Third of July .... congratulate and embrace one another as they met, like persons alive from the dead!” Mr Bonnell soon formed a firm resolution to become a clergyman, and after long negociations he agreed with a gentleman to be his successor in his office under government. In the end of 1693 he married Jane, daughter of Sir Albert Conyngham, by whom he had two sons, Albert and Samuel (who predeceased him) and one daughter. His feeble health did not permit him to receive holy orders, and a malignant epidemic fever was the cause of his early death, (i.e. in the 46th year of his age), on the 28th April 1699. Now (said he), must I stand or fall before my great Judge. It was answered that no doubt he would stand firm before Him, through the merits of our crucified Saviour. His reply was, ''It’s in that I trust. He knows it’s in that I trust''. He was buried in St John’s Church, Dublin, and his epitaph was contributed by Bishop King (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin).

Another eminent refugee from Ypres was Francis La Motte, son of Baldwin La Motte. Francis La Motte and Mary his wife fled from “the great persecution in the Low Countries under the bloody and cruel Duke of Alva.” They had hesitated whether their place of refuge should be Frankendale in the Palatinate or England, and providentially choosing the latter country they, in the fourth year of our Queen Elizabeth, settled at Colchester, having made “piety their chiefest and greatest interest, and the free exercise of religion their best purchase.” This phraseology I copy from the life of their son, John, included in Clark’s Lives of sundry eminent persons in this later age (London 1683), a life abridged from a separate memoir. To