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 grown due thereon till that time. I give and bequeath to my grandson, John Dubourdieu, son of Armand, all my books and all my papers, which shall not be delivered him till he shall be a minister, and in case he should embrace another profession, I give them to the first of my grandsons who shall be a minister. And whereas I have still an annuity for thirty-two years of the year 1710, No. 620, of £13, 10s. per annum, and also some Lottery Orders, which may amount to £120, besides my silver-plate, and all my household goods, I will that after payment of my legacies for charity, the whole, together with the money I may have at the time of my death, shall be equally divided between John Du Bourdieu [Prevenau], son of Armand Pigné Prevenau, and the eldest daughter of my son Peter.”

As to his two sons, Peter Dubourdieu was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and was B.A. in 1692 and M.A. in 1697. In 1708 he appears to have been chaplain of Townshend’s regiment. He became the rector of a parish, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, now called Kirkby-Misperton. Nichols relates of him that “being quick to discern and willing to encourage merit,” he sent to school a clever boy, John Clarke (son of a mechanic in his parish), who became M.A. and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was successively master of the schools of Shipton, Beverley, and Wakefield.

I have read the Will of the second son of Dr. John Dubourdieu, Rev. Armand Du Bourdieu. He was Vicar of Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, having been collated to that vicarage on 27th April 1716. There he died on 25th August 1733. His wife, Elizabeth, had died on 15th April 1724, and had been buried underneath the sacrarium, and he was laid beside her. He left two daughters, Elizabeth and Emma, and six sons, John, Jacob, Isaac, Armand, Peter, and Charles.

&#42;&#8270;* Armand’s son, John, early was destined for the ministry, as appears from his grand-father’s Will. He proved his father’s Will as executor on 17th October 1733; there was this clause concerning him, “I give and bequeath to my eldest son, John Dubourdieu, clerk, all my manuscript papers” (he was already the heir of his grandfather’s library and papers). He succeeded his father as Vicar of Sawbridgeworth, being collated on 28th August 1734; it is said that he resigned the living, but no date has been ascertained, and his successor was not collated till the year 1752. That may have been the year of his death, and perhaps he was a pluralist and non-resident. A Rev. John Dubourdieu solemnized marriages in the parish church of St. Antholin’s, London, from 1733 to 1747. There was a John Dubourdieu, M.A., Vicar of Layton, and Lecturer of Hackney, who published in 1745 a “Sermon on 2 Samuel xv. 21, on the present Rebellion.” A clergyman of the same names was the Lady Moyer Lecturer “on the Trinity and the Divinity of our ever-blessed Saviour,” for the years 1745-6.

 

There were two ministers of the French Church in the Savoy of this surname until 1720. Malard in his “French and Protestant Companion” mentions “Jean Armand Dubourdieu, Ministre de l’Eglise Franchise de la Savoie,” and “Jean Dubourdieu,, Ministre de la même église.” The clan, Dubourdieu, seems to have been numerous, and the names of Isaac and John-Armand seem to have been common among them. The family in the Patent-Roll of Naturalizations (see List x.) seems not to have been a clergyman’s household, nor was the John-Armand in it the junior Savoy pastor, unless two brothers (his father and his uncle) had the same name, John. The Ulster Journal of Archaeology informs us that our junior pasteur was the son of Jacques De Brius, Seigneur (or Sieur) Du Bourdieu, who died before the Revocation. His widow and the boy became refugees in London, she was of the family of De la Valade. She had set out on her circuitous and perilous journey, “disguised as a peasant, with her boy concealed in a shawl on her back, and accompanied by a faithful domestic.” The party effected their escape through the frontier guards into German Switzerland. If we have correctly affiliated him, the young pasteur of the Savoy cannot have the date of his birth fixed later than 1680. Under the superintendence of his aged grandfather, and afterwards of his uncle, his school and college education was thoroughly English and with a view to the Anglican Church. This accounts for his lack of reverence for Louis XIV., of whom the older refugees spoke with melancholy awe and romantic regard. He attracted the attention of the Duke of Devonshire, who made him his chaplain, and in 1701 presented him to the Rectory of Sawtrey-Moynes (now called Sawtrey-All-Saints) in Huntingdonshire. On the fly-leaf of the old Parish Register it is stated