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 clashed out; a young man she was to be married to went after the cart, imploring them to stop.” The family of Cassel, having undergone fearful tribulation, were the first of her relations to fly into Holland, and they took her with them. The La Hordes suffered as much, many being imprisoned and stripped of their property. Jean La Borde escaped out of prison in an almost miraculous manner, and after great privations, contrived to let his parents know where he was, hiding in fields, afraid to enter his own home, where there was plenty of food, and he starving. At length he fled to Holland, met the Cassels, and married Anne La Motte Graindor. There he joined the army of the Prince of Orange, whom he followed into England. He retired on a lieutenant’s half-pay, and settled at Portarlington, in which town the Cassel family also had representatives. In the register there is the baptism of a son of Jean La Borde and Anne Graindor, the parents being sponsors, who was born 16th December 1703, and named Jean. Another child, Anne La Borde, was married to Isaac Cassel, and Abe? Cassed, their son, was baptized on 12th August 1736. In 185S a daughter of Abel Cassel was alive, the last of her family, and very aged; she dictated the substance of the above narrative to Sir Erasmus Borrowes. (Ulster Journal, vol. vi., p. 345,)

3. Captain, formerly of the French royal regiment of La Ferté, was a captain in La Caillemotte’s Foot, and served in Ireland. At the Boyne he received no less than six wounds, and King William took special notice of his ardour and courage, so that he received a pension of ten shillings per day, and the post of Governor of Sligo. His two sons were British officers; one died with the rank of captain, unmarried. The other being in 1758 Lieut.-Col. John Lafausille of the 8th foot, was promoted to the Colonelcy of the 66th; he became Major-General in 1761, and died on his voyage home from Havannah in 1762. The day of his death was November 27. Two days thereafter the ship, H.M.S. Marlborough, foundered, but the crew was rescued by H.M.S. Antelope. The General was survived by an only child, Mrs. Torriano.

4. Major left a holograph memorandum dated 6th June 1692, willing the destination of his property, “If God should dispose of me in the dangers of war or otherwise.” On 4th October 1698 this document was sworn to by Charles Moreau, of St. Martin’s-in-thc-Fields, gent., and was administered to by Susan, wife of James de Mollien. This lady and her husband were to inherit his small means, on condition of their maintaining the Major’s two nieces, named Denandiere, which nieces were to succeed to the whole upon the death of Mr. and Mrs. de Mollien without issue. Otherwise, surviving daughters of the De Molliens should have it in equal shares; if, however, the De Molliens left a son, he was to have one half, and the daughters to share the other half between them. [The major is perhaps the same person as Captain de Moliens of Schomberg’s Horse]

5. Major was aide-de-camp to William III. at the Boyne; he is said to have warned old Schomberg against mingling in the fight without his cuirass. He was a son of M. Solomon Foubert, founder of the Riding Academy, From List xi. of Naturalizations and from other sources I compile the following:—

As to the Riding Academy between Swallow Street and Regent Street (where Foubert’s Alley became monumental) the following extracts from Evelyn’s Diary may be given:—

“1681. Sept. 17. I went with Monsieur Foubert about taking the Countess of Bristol’s house for an academy, he being lately come from Paris for his religion, and resolving to settle here.

“1682. Aug. 9. The Council of the Royal Society had it recommended to them to be trustees and visitors or supervisors of the Academy which M. Foubert did hope to procure to be built by subscription of worthy gentlemen and noblemen for the education of youth, and to lessen the vast expense the nation is at yearly by sending children into France to be taught military exercises; we thought good to give them all the encouragement our recommendation could procure.”

On 17th December 16S4, Evelyn mentions Mons. Foubert and his son, 