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 Danton, Marat, Robespierre, &c. — et donne même l’avantage a ces derniers (The Guardian, 20 Mai 1868). La Réformation, dit encore ce prêtre anglican, n’a pas été, une pentecôte; je la régarde comme un déluge — un acte de la vengeance divine.”

Notwithstanding all his lofty disdain of non-Catholics, it is satisfactory that the progress of events led Dr. Pusey to claim a brotherhood with all believers in “the supernatural,” and in the inspiration and integrity of the Scriptures. In 1860 he entered into the field of Old Testament prophecy in vindication of the holy prophets — their superhuman predictions and large Messianic references. In 1864 he published a most valuable work, entitled “Daniel the Prophet.” His determined Protestant opponent, Dr. Jeune (Bishop of Peterborough), wrote:— “While I venture to oppose the teaching of eminent men, I am not insensible to the claims which they may have on our reverence and gratitude. What member of the Church of Christ can be unthankful to Dr. Pusey for his wonderful work on the Prophet Daniel?” In this, and in his commentary on the Minor Prophets, Dr. Pusey served his generation well as a Hebrew scholar and professor. The publication of his accurate and interesting commentary on the Hebrew text of the Twelve Minor Prophets was begun in 1860 and completed in 1877. It is full of devotional matter, in which, amidst some Puseyism, there is much in common with Evangelical Protestants, even as to the foundations of the Christian hope and of the Christian life. Thus, while we grieve that he should say that Zechariah’s prophecy of a fountain open for sin and for uncleanness is fulfilled in baptism, and that Malachi’s prophecy of a pure offering is fulfilled in the “unbloody sacrifice of the Holy Eucharist,” we cordially accept two of his comments on the prophecies of Micah:—

vii. 19. He will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. “It is a Gospel before the Gospel. God would pardon, and He, not we, would subdue sin in us. He would bestow

vi. 8. Walk humbly with thy God. “It is not a crouching before God displeased, but the humble love of the forgiven. Walk humbly, as the creature with the Creator, but in love, with thine own God. Humble thyself with God, Who humbled Himself in the flesh. Walk on with Him, who is thy Way. Neither humility nor obedience alone would be true graces; but to cleave fast to God, because He is thine All, and to bow thyself down, because thou art nothing, and thine All is He and of Him. It is altogether a Gospel precept.”

Dr. Pusey died at Ascot Priory, where he happened to be on a visit, on 16th September 1882, in his eighty-third year. He was buried at Christ Church, Oxford.

&#42;&#8270;* There are still, as of old, two French churches in London, one in the city, and one in the West-end — the former maintaining the platform of public worship of Charenton and Friedrichsdorf; the latter using Durell’s Anglican liturgy translated into French. As to the former, I have spoken of its modern condition in my memoir of Rev. David Primerose. The latter I mention here, because the Rev. Frederick William Bryon Bouverie, LL.B., is the present incumbent, having been elected by the vestry in 1870. His place of worship in the first part of the Clergy List is styled " the French Anglican Church of St. John (la Savoy) it ought to have been “La Savoie;” in the second part it is called the French Episcopal Chapel, Bloomsbury. The annual salary is £260.

 

I long had the hope of being able to connect the Chevallier family with the refugee Professor of Hebrew, Raoul (or Rodolphe) Le Chevallier, aliàs Rodolphus Cevallerius, who died on his way home to Oxford, in the Island of Guernsey, in 1572. His son was the Pasteur Samuel Le Chevallier, French pasteur of Canterbury in 1590, who by Lea Cappel had several children (see a list in my Historical Introduction). I have made unsuccessful enquiries for a pedigree or some genealogical hints, and finally was referred to an oracle at Ipswich, but the oracle was dumb. The family which I have found, however, is said to be sprung from “French Huguenots, who left France for Jersey, in consequence of the troubles of the sixteenth century, and proceeded thence to England.” Before the accession of George III., it had become a Suffolk family; and the first notice that has met my eye is the following:—

“20th Oct. 1762. — Rev. Mr. Chevallier was instituted to the living of Great Wrattling, in Suffolk, on his own petitions, himself being the patron, and to the rectory of Kedington alias Ketton, in Suffolk, on the presentation of Mr Henry