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  a Protestant church on his manor; he died in 1666, and his son, Antoine, inherited his zeal. Antoine Eynard removed to Lyons in 1676, married Sara Calvier, and had four sons. The third and fourth were refugees in England, and died unmarried. Anthony (who died in 1739) was an officer of merit in the British army. Simon Eynard was a merchant in London, and made a fortune. Their sister, Louise, and her husband, Gideon Ageron, were also refugees in England. A nephew, John Anthony Eynard, a son of an elder brother, Jacques, passed most of his life in England, but died in the Canton-de-Vaud in 1760, unmarried.

The Le Maistre family were very decided Huguenots. Haag informs us that Pierre Le Maistre, who probably came from Orleans, married at Canterbury in 1691, Marie, daughter of Mr. Ambrose Minet, French Pasteur of Dover; also, that Erancoise Le Maistre was married at London, 1695, to David Pouget, and that a lady in France, of the same name (perhaps the same person), having fled, a description of her was sent to all the civil authorities, and she was arrested at Valenciennes in May 1685, and was shut up in the Bastile till 1688, when she was banished. Caesar Le Maistre is the signature of one of the London merchants in 1744; he certainly was a Huguenot, as he was one of Mr. Dufour’s executors in 1739. The marriage of Stephen Caesar Lemaistre, Esq. of Queen Street, Westminster, to Miss Roche, was recorded in April 1760. The surname was Anglicised into Masters. Mr. Matthew Le Maitre died in Carlow on 7th December 1782, aged ninety. Stephen Caesar Le Maistre, Esq., was a Judge of the High Court at Calcutta from 1774 to 1783.

12. A refugee minister, styled Le Sieur Francois Joseph Alexandre L’Herondel d’Anglecqueville, married in London, in 1701, Helene Nezereau. The surname,, survived in the next generation, but exposed its owners to the trial of being addressed as Sherondel. In the beginning of the reign of George III. there was a merchant in London named Francis Lherondell, and in 1762 he wrote to a gentleman with regard to his application to be admitted to subscribe to a Government loan.

, 29th November 1762.

Sir! — As you have pleased to assure me that Lord Bute will mention my affair to Mr. Fox, I cannot but flatter myself with hope of success, both from his Lordship’s generosity and that gentleman’s friendship and integrity. But as the Earl of Bute’s great engagements may occasion a concern of so inferior a nature as mine to be sometime forgotten, I hope you will forgive the liberty I now take to entreat you to mention me again to his Lordship if there should be a necessity for so doing. It may likewise be not improper to observe that my name begins with L, and not with S. I observe it, as a misnomer may occasion mistakes and trouble, and I am most respectfully, Sir ! your obedient, humble servant,

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13. In 1763, January 17, applied to be allowed to subscribe £5000 to the Government Loan, “having always had the honour of being concerned in all former subscriptions!” His letter was addressed to the Earl of Bute, as also were the following:—

My Lord, — We beg the favour of your Lordship to be admitted subscribers to the New Loan for the sum of Forty Thousand pounds. — We have the honour to be, with the most profound respect, &c, &c.

, Merchants in New Broad Street.

, 17th January 1762.

, — Having had £2000 in last year’s subscription in Mr. Maginn’s List, I take the liberty, on his intimation, to apply to your Lordship, desiring the favour of a proportionall share in this year’s subscription. — I am, &c.

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17th January 1763.

[All the letters to Lord Bute are copied from the Musgrave Collection of Autographs in the British Museum.] 