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 of Claudius Daubuz, his son, late Rector of Bilsthorpe and prebendary of Southwell in Nottinghamshire, who died the 13th of September 1760, aged 56 years. Both [were] eminent for piety, virtue and learning; they lived beloved and died universally lamented.

“Also, Julia Daubuz, widow, and mother of Charles Daubuz (who, with her family, in the year 1686, left France, their native country, to avoid the severe persecution against the Reformed), died the 8th of December 1714, aged seventy-seven years.

“Also, John and Charles, sons of Charles Daubuz. John died June 21st 1723, aged eight years; and Charles, 18th November 1728, aged eighteen years.”

With regard to the above-named Reverend Claudius Daubuz, he was Rector of Bildesthorpe in Nottinghamshire, to which he was presented by Sir George Savile, Bart. He was ten years of age when his father died, but obtained the favourable notice of the Ramsdens of Byrom in his father’s parish; it was perhaps through their assistance that he was enabled to study at Cambridge, where he was a member of Catherine Hall, and took his degree of B.A. in 1726; he was for some time Vicar of Huddersfield, in which town he was much esteemed, and long remembered as a clergyman of learning and merit. He took his degree of M.A. in 1749. He obtained the rectory of Bildesthorpe in 1752. It was at Pontefract that he died, and he was buried at Brotherton, near his father, in the year 1760. The auctioneers, John Whiston and Benjamin White of Fleet Street (London) sold the library of “the learned and reverend Mr. Daubuz” in 1763.

Stephen Daubuz, Esq., was an influential citizen of London, and paid his fine to be excused acceptance of the office of sheriff; he died 23rd June 1746.

Theophilus Daubuz, Esq., merchant of Falmouth, kept the honoured refugee surname in remembrance (see Chapter xx.).  

The two brothers De L’Angle were the sons of the Pasteur Jean Maximilien De L’Angle of Rouen; the family title was Seigneur De L’Angle; their French surname was De Baux. The father of the refugees was one of the letter-writers of 1660 in favour of King Charles II., but otherwise his public life was most serviceable and distinguished. He was born at Evreux in 1590, was settled at Rouen in 1615, where he died in 1674. He had married in 1619 Marie, daughter of Rene Bochart, Sieur de Menillet, and sister of Samuel Bochart. He left two sons, Samuel and John Maximilian. Before the brothers, I mention their sister, Marie De L’Angle, wife (see her naturalization in my vol. i., Historical Introduction) and afterwards widow of John Durel, D.D., Dean of Windsor; she died in 1700, and left a son, Colonel Henry Durel, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Marlborough. (The old pasteur of Rouen was never a refugee, although he visited England and preached.)

(1.) Samuel De L’Angle was named after his erudite uncle. He was born in 1622, and in 1647 he became colleague to his father at Rouen. He became a pasteur of Charenton in 1671, where he remained for eleven years, and then retired to England, when Anthony Wood introduces him to us in the Fasti of Oxford University, thus:—

1682-83. February 12. Samuel De L’Angle was created D.D., without paying any fees, by virtue of the Chancellor’s letters written in his behalf, which partly run thus:— Mr. Samuel de Langle, minister of the Reformed Church at Paris, is retired into England with his whole family, with intentions to live here the remainder of his time;. . . he hath exercised his function thirty-five years, partly at Rouen and partly at Paris;. . . he is only M.A., which the Protestant Divines usually take, and no farther,” &c. When he was conducted into the House of Convocation by a beadle and the King’s Professor of Divinity, all the Masters stood up in reverence to him. When the Professor presented him, he did it with a harangue; which being done, Mr. De Langle took his place among the Doctors, and spoke a polite oration containing thanks for the honour that the most famous University of Oxford had conferred upon him. He had been preacher of the chief Church of the Reformed religion in France, called Charenton, near Paris, and was afterwards made Prebendary of Westminster. He died in 1693, aged seventy-one.

He was installed Prebendary of Westminster, 13th October 1683. At the Coronation of William and Mary, when the Dean and Prebendaries brought the Regalia to Westminster Hall, in solemn procession, Dr. De L’Angle carried the King’s sceptre with the cross. He died at his prebendal house on Saturday night, 17th June 1693, and was buried on the 21st. In the register he is called also Parson of Steventon in Bucks. His eldest son was the Rev. John Maximilian De L’Angle (born 1666), M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1694. His second son, Peter (who