Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 8 - Section V

by David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

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V. Breton.

Martin Breton is another refugee proselyte, of whom I can find nothing except the statement entered, on 19th November 1676, in the Register of the Chapel Royal in St. James’ Palace, Westminster (transcribed by Mr. J. Southerden Burn for his History of Parish Registers). The entry is as follows:—

“Monsieur Martin Breton, a priest and preacher at St. Paul’s Church at Paris, made his recantacon in the Chapell after Evening Prayer imediately before The Grace of o^r L^d. - Jesus X^t. &c, on Nov^r. 19, 1676. He declared his unfeigned sorrow y^t. he had bin so long detained in the Ch. of Rome, and promis'd as long as his life should last he would bee a true Son of the Church of England. In testimony whereof he gave it under his hand openly, to the Ld. Bp. of London then Dean of the Chappell.”