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| The 6th Sept. 1686. | — God gave us a girl, who was baptized at our English Parish Church, St. Andrews, Mary-Hill, in our street, Philpot Lane. The godfather was John Sarazin, proxy for his father; the godmothers were Miss Forrester and Fermignac, who gave her the name of my wife, Jane, whom God bless, Amen. |
| N.B. — This was Mr. La Conde (sic), dyed at Carshalton, there buried. | |
| The 5th Sept. 1687. — God gave us a boy, who was baptized the 14th of the said month at the Walloon Church. His godfather was Mr. Stephen Pigou Marchand, native of the city of Amiens, in Picardy; his godmother was Madme. Mary Perin of Paris, wife of Mr. Stephen Soulhard of London, merchant, who gave him the name of Stephen, whom God bless. Amen. | |
| Dead | God took him away, Sunday morning, the 28th April, at 7 o’clock, 1689, and was buried at the Post [query, Pest] House, Monday evening, at ½ an hour of six. He lived 19 months and 24 days. |
| David Garrick’s father’s arrival in England. | |
| The 22nd May 1687. | — Little Peter arrived at London by the grace of God in the ship John White, with a servant, Mary Mougnier, and I paid for their passage 22 guineas. |
| Died at Lichfield, there buried. | |
| The 26th January 1688-9. | — God gave us a boy, who was baptized the 30th do., at the Walloon Church: the godfather is Mr. Peter Noual, husband of my niece, Fermignac. Godmother, the wife of our cousin Soullard. They called him David, whom God bless. |
| Liton Uncle (sic) dyed at Carshalton, there buried. | |
| The 26th August 1690. | — God gave us a fine boy between eleven and 12 forenoon; was baptized at the Walloon Church by a stranger, named Mr. La Perin; Mr. John Sarazin and I, David Garric, the father, being godfathers — the godmother, Madame Sablannan Jane le Goye. (I believe this child was named Stephen, but the name is torn in the original document), whom God bless and preserve with long and happy life. This child died the 18th Jan. 1691-2, and was buried in Putney church-yard the 20th. |
Charges of Funeral:— | |
| The 21st Sept. 1691. — God was so good as to deliver my wife from her lying-in of a girl, who was baptized the Thursday following, at the Walloon Church, by Mr. Brithand, minister; godfather, Mr. Peter Fermignac, my brother-in-law; godmother, Mme. Soulard, Mary Bernard, who gave her the name of Mary Magdalen, whom God bless and grant a long and happy life for the honour and glory of God. | |
| The 26th 1692, at 10 o’clock at night, God was so good as to deliver my wife from her lying-in of a boy, who was baptised the Wednesday following, being the 30th, at the Walloon Church by Mr. Basset, minister; godfather and godmother, our cousins Stephen Soullard and Elizabeth Colineau, who gave him the name of Stephen, whom God bless and preserve for many years, for the glory of God and his own eternal happiness. | |
| The 4th July 1693. — God took to Himself the little Stephen, who dyed at 10 o’clock in the morning, and the 5th buried at night at 5 o’clock at Wandsworth in the New Churchyard; the whole cost 34 sh. | |
| God hath afflicted me, and taken from me my poor wife, the 2d Dec. 1694, Sunday, at 10 o’clock at night, and given her to me in April 1682. Buried in Bartholomew Lane, behind the Royal Exchange. | |
| The 16-27th July 1696. — God brought me my poor brother, Mr. Peter Garric, from Rotterdam, from whence he departed the 9-19th do. with my sister Magdalen, the eldest dau. of all, being 63 years old. My brother fell sick, and after 3 weeks’ illness died the 4th Aug. Buried the 6th do., after having suffered like a martyr with a retention of urine. God preserve us from the like distemper. Amen. Interred in Bartholomew Lane, behind the Change, near my poor wife. | |
| The 16th May 1701. — Magdalen Garric, my sister, dyed after being ill with a dropsy. 5 months aged 68 years at 4 o’clock in the morning. Buried the Sunday night in Bartholomew Lane, near my wife and brother.[1] | |
Riou. — That this heroic officer was killed in action is well known through Campbell’s lines:—
“Brave hearts, to Britain’s pride
Once so faithful and so true,
On the deck of fame that died
With the gallant good Riou!”
In St. Paul’s Cathedral there is a monument to him and Captain Mosse, which may be described as if it were heraldic; a sarcophagus is the crest, a tablet is the shield, the supporters are two angels holding medallion profiles of the deceased officers. The tablet has this inscription:—
“The services and death of two valiant and distinguished officers, James Robert Mosse, Captain of the Monarch, and Edward Riou, Captain of the Amazon, who fell in the attack upon Copenhagen, conducted by Lord Nelson 2d April 1801, are commemorated by this monument erected at the national expense.
- ↑ “Translated from the French by P. Fermignac, cousin to George Garrick.”
