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 daughter being further represented by the branch of the family founded by her younger son, David Murray, Esq. (died 1794), father of the Rev. David Murray, Rector of Brampton-Brian, who married in 1828 Frances, daughter of John Portal, Esq. of Freefolk.

Colonel Montolieu had other daughters. On 16th December 1780, Ann, his third daughter, was married to Sir James Bland Burges, Bart.; she died on 25th October 1810; her eldest son was Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, Bart, (born 1785, died 1860), who, by his marriage with the Dowager Lady Montgomerie, became step-father to the thirteenth Earl of Eglinton: hence Montolieu was introduced among the Christian names of the Earl’s descendants.

On 27th May 1783, another daughter of Colonel Montolieu was married to Wriothesley Digby, Esq. (born 1749, died 1827), son of the Hon. Wriothesley Digby, LL.D., and grandson of William, fifth Lord Digby.

In 1826 another daughter, Julia (being the widow of Captain William Wilbraham. R.N.), was married to Lieut. -General Sir Henry Edward Bouverie; she had a daughter, Henrietta, wife of Hugh Montolieu Hammersley, and a son, Captain Henry Montolieu Bouverie, of the Coldstream Guards.

&#42;&#8270;* The brother of the old Baron, Louis Montolieu, being a refugee in Brandenburg, is memorialised in the seventh and ninth volumes of Erman and Reclam. In 1693 he was a Captain in the regiment of the Marquis de Varennes. He also was created a Baron in 1706, and became General de Bataille in the kingdom of Sicily; he became Major-General in Prussia, and received pensions from Prussia, Sardinia, and Great Britain; he died in Berlin; his eldest daughter was married to Lieut-Colonel Beville (father of Lieut-General Beville); the second daughter was married to Lieut.-General de Forgade; his eldest son, after spending his active life in Wurtemberg, retired to Lausanne. This son is mentioned in the diary of James Hutton, in connection with the visit of that zealous Christian layman to Lausanne in 1756; he is styled “Baron de Montaulieu, of the House of St. Hippolyte, in France, who speaks English, and has a pension and ordre from Wurtemberg, and also a pension from Prussia, and is beau-frère of the Prussian General Forçade.” At that time France was supplied with Protestant pastors by the “Languedoc Theological Seminary,” established at Lausanne. Hutton was there on a visit to urge the Professors to promote evangelic doctrines. The substance of his representation to them was, that the French Reformed Church was a martyr church, whose members had suffered the flames, the gallows, the sword, the dagger, the hatchet, the rack, precipitation from rocks, and drowning, &c, for forty years before they took up arms; and on this account he honoured her, but felt anxious that she should not permit herself to be led aside, by merely moral sermons, from the profitable and thankful contemplation of the sufferings of Christ for sinners.

 

The Marquis de Puissar was an officer in the French army, and came over to England a little before the Revocation Edict. His surname was Le Vasseur-Cougnéc. On the 20th July 1685, James Louis, Marquis dc Puissar, in the kingdom of France, was married in King Henry VII.’s Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, to Catherine, second daughter of Sir Edward Villiers, Knt, and sister of Edward Villiers (afterwards created Earl of Jersey), of the Countess of Portland, and of the Countess of Breadalbane. According to the army lists, Louis James, Marquis de Puissar was in 1695 appointed Colonel of the 24th regiment, which thereafter served in Flanders. On 25th September 1697, the king granted several forfeited estates,