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18. Rev. P. F. de la Rivière, Minister of the London French Church in the Savoy, seems to have been eminent. He was chairman, in Queen Anne’s reign, of one of the meetings of refugees, to concert with statesmen and diplomatists, concerning the desired toleration of Protestants in France; there is an engraved portrait of him by Van Somer.

19. Rev. Stephen Lyon, or Lion, was born in Rouen in 1674. His monument states that “he left Rouen under the guardianship of his mother, for the Protestant religion there persecuted.” He matriculated at Oxford from Oriel College, 14th June 1692, aged eighteen, as “pleb. fil.,” his father’s name being J. Lion. He took his B.A. degree as of All Souls College, 13th February 1695-6; M.A., 21st February 1703-4. He was for nearly forty years minister of Spalding in Lincolnshire. There his daughters Mary and Susannah, who died young, were buried; also his wife, who died 16th April 1747, aged seventy-three, (Grace, daughter of George Lynn, Esq. of Southwick, in Northamptonshire); and the Rev. Stephen Lyon himself, who died 4th February 1748, (n.s.), aged seventy-four. Ezekiel Lion, M.A. of the University of Bordeaux, was incorporated at Oxford, 16th May 1704. — (Colonel Chester’s MSS.)

20. The Rev. Henry Pujolas was minister of the French church of Parson Drove in 1692; on 5th December 1691 he married Anne Richer, and died in 1749. Dcnys Pujolas was an ensign in the Guards in 1704. John Pujolas died in London before 1762, and was the father of Henry Pujolas, Esq., Richmond Herald, who died in 1764, aged thirty-one. Benjamin Pujolas, surveyor to the Westminster Insurance Office, died in 1776.

21. The Rev. Daniel Lompard, D.D., rector of Lanteglos and Advent in Cornwall, formerly chaplain to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, was the elder son of a French Refugee pasteur. The refugee family appears among our Naturalisations (see List xiv.) of 5th January 1688: John Lombard (clerk), Frances, his wife, and Daniel and Philip, their sons. The father was minister successively of Martin’s Lane, Le Quarré, and Hungerford French churches in London, and died in 1721. Daniel was Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxford, and became M.A. by diploma dated 7th April 1701 — then proceeded to B.D. on 25th April 1708, and to D.D. on 23rd April 1714. He is said to have been an extraordinary linguist. He died on 31st December 1746, having just completed his able and concise “History of Persecutions.” In this book, which is still celebrated, he betrays his noble birth by dwelling upon the sufferings of the Protestants of France.

22. The Rev. Stephen Abel Laval was in 1737 pasteur of the united chapels of Castle Street and Berwick Street in London. At that period of his life he brought out his elaborate History of the Reformed Church of France, in six volumes, with an appendix. The preface apologises for his English, as written by a Frenchman. He was proud of his connection with the Drelincourts. Charlotte Susanne, daughter of the deceased Pasteur Laurent Drelincourt, eldest brother of the Dean of Armagh, was married in the London French Church in the Savoy, in 1690, to John Barbot, author of Voyages to Guinea, in Churchill’s collection; Charlotte Barbot, her daughter, was Laval’s wife, and had to him two children, Daniel and Charlotte Elizabeth.

Among the subscribers to his history, the following names are interesting:—

Colonel Addée, Mr. Albert, Captain Arabin,^[1] Rev. Mr. Aufrère, Mr. James Baignoux, Rev. Mr. Barbauld, Mr. Bardin of Chelsea, Rev. Mr. Battaile, Mr. Paul Bauvais, Rev. Mr. Bernard, F.R.S., Mr. De la Bertouche, Mr. Binet, Mr. Bion, Brigadier de Bommarel, ____ Bonet, Esq,, Rev. Mr. Bourdillon, Rev. Mr. Boyer, Mrs. Brunet, Captain Bruneval, Mr. Cabibel, sen., Mr. Cautier, ____ Casa-major, Brigadier Cavalier, Mr. Chamier, Mr. Francis Chassereau, Mr. John Chatin, Mr. Chattie, Lady Colladon, Rev. Mr. Ste. Colombe, Mr. Commarques, M.D., Rev. Mr. Comarques, Mr. Dalteyrac of Bristol, Mr. Darien of Wandsworth, ____ De Crepini, Esq., Captain Theophilus Des Brisay, Madam Drelincourt, Miss Drelincourt, Rev. Mr. Droz, Rev. Mr. Durand, F.R.S., Rev. Mr. Simon Durand, Rev. Mr. Duval, Colonel De Veil, Rev. Mr. Eynard, Mr. Farette, Claud Fonnereau, Esq., Rev. Mr. Fouace, Captain Des Fourneaux, Peter Gaussen, Esq., Daniel Goizin, Esq., Major De ]ean, five copies, Mr. Johannot, Mr. Isaac Lacan, James La Touche, Esq., La Roche, Esq., Henry St. Leger of Trunkwell, Esq., Gideon Leglise, Esq., Rev. Mr. Lestableres, Mr. Joseph Lycett. Captain De la Maindrie, ____ De Mazères, Esq., ____ Miré, Esq., Rev. Mr. De Missy, Charles De Montaulieu, Esq., Madam de Montigny (deceased), Mr. James Moetiens, James Molinier, Esq., Captain Philip Moreau, ____ De Morin, Esq., Miss De Morin, Motte and Bathurst, booksellers, fourteen copies, Rev. Mr. De Muysson,

1. “Alexandre Arabin, jeuue homme de Wands-worth,” was received into the communion of the French Church of Norwich in 1722. — Burn, p. 118. On 7th March 1785 at 8 p.m.. the house of Colonel Arabin in Gresse Street was entered by five robbers, who carried off property valued at £2000.