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Rowland Gargant, Frenchmen, silk-weaver, and Jane, his wife.

Arnold Hetrewe, born in Valencia, silk-weaver, father of Rowland (see 1568); John Guite, his servant, and another John Guite.

Gawyn de Vale [Veille], of Dieppe, merchant.

“John Vannesse, borne in Sallonde, hath byn here ii. monethes; Peter Erasmos, borne in the place aforesaide, hath byn here ii. weeks.”

John Blanker, born in Flanders, surgeon, Perinne, his wife, and six children.

Vincent Cossifer, born in Burgundy, sackcloth-weaver, Agnes, his wife, and Philippe, his son.

Marie Gobbam, widow, and Catherine Forman, her daughter, a ribbon-weaver.

Widow Gaime [or Ganne], a winder of silk, and Matthew de Mounte, a Walloon, turner, came into England about vi. months past for religion, and are both inmates with John Pittaine (see 1566).

Fermin Cye, of Flanders, silk-weaver, aged 30; Anne of Valencienne, his wife, aged 33; Abraham, Isaac, Ester, and Judith, their children, between the age of 6 years and 1; a servant, Lewis Haverlois, of Sluce, aged 24.

John Cockhouse, of Bethune in Flanders, currier, aged 33, and four children, Margaret (8), Elizabeth (6), John (3), and Marie (l½).

Philippe Oliver [Olivier?], silk-weaver, Julienne, his wife, Peter, Samuel, Jane, Benjamin, Judith, and Sara, their children.

John Mutton, spinner of yarn, his wife, four sons, and one daughter.

Anthony Cornelis, servant to Richard Allyn, cordwainer.

Garrett de Cattene, Burgundian, dresser of flax, his wife and son.

Paskar Haubaude, Burgundian, tailor; came on 28th June.

George Burgis, born in the low countries of Flanders, parchmenter, and Phillipott, his wife “w^th a yonge suckinge childe.”

Elizabeth Fakerbe, aged 30, wife of James Anderson of Fife in Scotland, aged 34,^[1] and their child, born in Calais, aged 5. The family came from France for relief.

[There was included in this census, Guillaume Moubert of Normandy, 40 years in England, one of the deacons of the French Church, a currier of leather, a denizen, and all his family English.]

The following refugees are entered without the dates of their arrival:—

John Bergree, born in “Lyes” in the Low Countries, Marie, his wife, and one child.

Widow Blankare [Blanquiere?] of Lille, and one son, a silk-weaver.

William Daroue, the elder, born at Lille, and Agnes, his wife.

John de Grandsare, a Burgundian, silk-weaver, and Catherine, his wife. Susan and Ester, their daughters, were born in England.

Anthony Degardaine, Burgundian, silk-weaver, and Ellen, his wife.

Elizabeth Beyne, widow, a worker of silk, and Antoinette, her daughter.

Mr Portener, the Queen’s Majesty’s man, and Christopher, his servant, Frenchman.

John Janne, Erenchman, sackcloth-weaver, and Anne, his wife.

Andrew Depoins, born in “Monthenoe,” shoemaker, and his wife.

Jaques Tuillier, minister, his wife, and two children, lodgers in 1571 with Robert Howell, merchant.

I regret that the above notices of the earliest refugees are so fragmentary, and so deficient in biographical details. Many of the exiles of this period lived in their descendants of the next generation, and of generations so closely following the next, as to deserve the epithet of antiquarian. Therefore, before coming to the refugees from the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, I shall devote a chapter to memoirs of eminent descendants of the earliest refugees.

Note.

Several pasteurs’ names occur in the Lists of Strangers in 1568 (Strype’s Annals, vol. iv. Supplement), in 1618 (Camden Society List, Appendix), and in 1621 (Camden Society List, page 1).

1. Although I give the first place to the wife as a native of France, yet Anderson, because a Scotchman, was a “straunger” in England, and Scots had to be separately enumerated like other strangers. I shall copy the entry verbatim, with the contents of each margin:—

   Skott—j. Ffrench—ij.

   James Anderson of ffiphe in Scottland, of thage of xxxiiijty yeres having to wif Elizabeth ffakerbe, of thage of xxxty yeres came hether synce Midsomer last for releif, wth a child of v. yeres of age borne in Calys.

   Parishe church—j.

   Another Scotchman’s name occurs in the following paragraph which I copy in modernized English:—
   “Jacques Lyvenhavle, gentleman of Antwerp, hath been here two months, being a suitor at the Court and resorts to the French Church. William Melvyn, ‘a Skott,’ and servant to ‘the Pasgrave,’ came over about one month past about his master’s affairs.”

   There is a Scotch tailor of “no churche” named Alexander Williamson, described as “a Scott who hath dwelt here iiij. years,” servant to Richard Beckett, a member of the French Church.