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 has also a portrait of M. Sebastian Balicourt, pasteur of Metz, born at Verdun in 1660. That intrepid minister preached in defiance of the Revocation Edict, but being pursued he concealed himself in the house of a friendly grocer, a New Catholic, who packed him up in a barrel with care, addressed to Berlin. He arrived safely, and ministered to the French refugees till his death on 4th February 1731. His son, Simon Balicourt, ultimately settled in England, and died in Wood Street, London, 1st December 1757.

(See Pedigree by Henry Wagner, F.S.A.)  

Jaques Louis Berchère, of Paris, and afterwards of Broad Street, London, merchant-jeweller and banker, as a widower, married in the French Church of St. Martin Orgars on 15th August 1700, Magdalen Regnier, widow. He died on 3rd May 1753, aged eighty-three, and was buried in the church of St. Helen’s, Bishopgate, beneath a black marble slab on which are engraved his wife’s arms. He had four daughters:— 1. Susanne, wife of Josiah Baril. 2. Magdalen, wife of John Louis Loubier. 3. Susanne Judith, wife of John Boissier. 4. Mary Magdalen, wife of James Massé. Boissier was a family of Anduze, refugees at Geneva. Jean Daniel Boissier was baptised at the Madeleine in Geneva on 4th July 1699; he settled in England, and purchased Lime Grove at Putney. He married at St. Peter-le-Poor on 15th April 1735, Susanne Judith Berchère. She was buried in Putney Churchyard on 4th September 1756, and he in the New Burial Ground, on 14th May 1770. His eldest son, James William, settled at Vienna, leaving a son, John William, who died in 1792 at the siege of Lille. But his second son remained in England, and founded a family, namely, John Louis Boissier, born 1742, died 1821, buried at Cheltenham, father of Rev. Peter Edward Boissier of Bath, born 1791, grandfather of Rev. Peter Henry Boissier, born 1822, died 1880, and great-grandfather of Rev. Frederick Scobell Boissier, M.A. Cantab., one of the Masters of all Saints’ School, Bloxham, born 1854. Among all these clergymen no religious author has been recorded. But the great-grandfather, John Louis Boissier, Esq., translated from the French, Bonnet’s “Philosophical and Critical Enquiries concerning Christianity;” the translation was printed in 1787.  

There died in London, 5th May 1758, Mr. Andrew Bousquet, aged eighty-six, a French Protestant of Languedoc, who, for his religion, suffered fourteen years’ slavery in the king’s galleys. He was the first promoter of the Westminster French Charity School, begun in 1747, for poor children born in England of French refugee parents, to which he left £500.  

The refugees of the name of Chassereau came from Xiort in Poitou, and were received into the French Church of Leicester Fields, London, on 2nd May 1714. 