Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 15 - Barbon

by David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

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Bassens.

In the Lord Mayor’s London List of Ministers, Strangers, in 1568, one of the comrades of the Hebrew Professor, Le Chevallier, might very probably have been one of the pasteurs of Caen, and may therefore be identified with one of the recipients of Mr. Robert Nowell’s bounty, whose surname is omitted in his account-book. The Lord Mayor calls him, “Vincent Bassens, Frenchman, minister of the gospel, and by that name put in exile by commandment of the French king.” The entry in the Spending of the Money is:—

To one vencentus, late minister of Cayne, the viij. of Martche A^o - 1573. . . . Xs.