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FRENCH PROTESTANT EXILES.
BOOK FIRST.
Chapter I.
REFUGEES OF EARLIER DATE THAN THE ST. BARTHOLOMEW MASSACRE.
As far as England is concerned, the years 1567 and 1568, and the persecutions in the Netherlands renewed and intensified by Duke Alva, are the usual framework for pictures of the flight and arrival of Protestant refugees. We picture a crowd of Walloons whom a poet has described as
Calvin’s sons from Artois' fruitful fields,
and a re-inforcement of Huguenots who joined them in their journeys through the northern provinces of France. A history tracing this exodus hither and thither might be compiled; but materials for refugee biography at the earlier date are non-existent, at least when the theme is limited to persons whose destination was England. We cannot single out any remarkable sufferers and pourtray their sufferings in their native Flanders, and then proceed to exhibit them in England as refugees and citizens of an adopted country, whose lives have survived in the memories of their new fellow-countrymen. The registers of their churches for the earliest dates have not survived, excepting Southampton, where the refugees obtained from Edward VI., and afterwards from Elizabeth, a chapel (originally dedicated to St. Julian) known as “Domus Dei,” Maisondieu, or “God’s House.” The surviving register of this church begins with the month of December 1567, but the earliest names are of no celebrity. The dates at which the other principal registers begin are — Canterbury, July 1581; Norwich, June 1595; London (Threadneedle Street), January 1600.
If we go back a few years, perhaps to 1560, we get a glimpse of a refugee who ultimately settled in England, but who, in the first place, fled to Frankfort. Old papers in the possession of the Earl of Radnor introduce us to the Chateau des Bouveries, near Lille, where, at or about the date indicated, the Sieur Des Bouveries was austerely attached to the Romish communion. His younger son, Laurent, had imbibed Protestant doctrine. I now quote the substance of the old narrative:— “Having frequently absented himself from mass, he was told by his father that he suspected he had conversed too much with his heretic tenants, and that if he did not appear at mass on the next Sunday, he would have him examined by the Inquisition. Laurent, thoroughly terrified by the intimation of such a procedure, fled immediately to Frankfort-on-the-Main. Seating himself at the gate of a person who kept a considerable silk manufactory, he was asked by him what occasion brought him thither. Having explained, he was told by the old man that he himself had been driven to Frankfort by persecution, and was therefore inclined to be his friend. I see, by the zuhitcness of your hands (said he), that you have not been used to hard work; but if you will stay with me you will have only to keep my accounts and supervise my workmen. In that station Laurent gave entire satisfaction — married his patron’s niece — and at the old man’s death became his heir. Ultimately he was one of the many foreign Protestants who accepted Queen Elizabeth’s invitation to England.”
The visitation or invasion of Duke Alva began at Brussels, 28th August 1567, ​and ended 1st December 1572. His coming was really an invasion. It was unconstitutional to bring and to quarter in the Netherlands an army from Spain. Margaret, the Regent of the Netherlands, protested to her half-brother, King Philip, against the mission of the Duke, and entirely resigned the government soon after. On 8th September 1567 Margaret wrote to Philip to the following effect:—
“Your having committed so much authority and such a number of Spanish soldiers to the Duke has been very prejudicial to my own honour, and to the pacified state of the country under my government. Great numbers of people, with their goods and manufactures, have fled away to foreign lands — either through the burdensomeness of these unwelcome guests, or through despair of pardon, or through dread of impending miseries. The number of fugitives is about a hundred thousand souls.”
On the day after the date of this letter, the Duke treacherously apprehended Count Hoorn, Count Egmont, and other leading men. This (says the historian) “occasioned such a new terror that above 20,000 more quitted the land.” On 18th September, Lady Margaret issued a “placard,” “laying some severe penalties on those who should fly, and giving good words to such as should stay behind,” but without success. The Duke’s “Council of Tumults,” known as the Bloody Tribunal, acted upon a regulation, that all Netherlanders, except certain zealous Romanists known by name to the government, were heretics or abettors of heresy, having been guilty either by commission or by omission. There was thus no security for life or property. Multitudes now became refugees, not only because of conscientious Protestantism, but because, although Romanists, they had been tolerant in the past, and could, not face the spectacle of the future slaughter of their countrymen. Margaret soon resigned the government and left the country.
Although she was considered lukewarm by her royal brother, and believed concerning herself that she was pacifying the Netherlands by clemency, the persecution of Protestants was nothing new. Confining our attention to surnames afterwards known in refugee registers, we go back to March 1556-57, and we find that Robert Oguier and his wife, and their sons Baldwin and Martin, were burnt at Lisle in that month. The refugees of the name of Ogier were probably of the same clan; Anthoine Ogier had a daughter baptised at Canterbury in 1590. John Lanoy, an elder of the French Church, was burnt at Tournay, 27th November 1561. In the register of the French Church of London in 1603, Francoise, widow of Nicolas De Launoy, is mentioned. The elders of the French Church, who had a principal share in the agreement with the Prince of Orange at Antwerp, 2nd September 1566, had names of familiar sound — Francis Godin, John Carlier, Nicolas Du Vivier, and Nicolas Selin.
What the Regent Margaret called her policy of pacification began at Valenciennes in 1567, and by her judicial murders there she struck so much terror everywhere, that it was said, The governess found the keys of all the other cities at Valenciennes. Among the martyrs who suffered death at that city were Michel Herlin (the Governor) and his son; Guido de Bres and Peregrine de la Grange, ministers; Matthew de la Hay and Peter de la Rue, elders; and Roland le Bouc and Francis Patton, deacons. John Le Thieullier also died a martyr’s death at Valenciennes in this year or the next.
The city of Cambray had been so zealous as to drive away its archbishop, though they could not prevent his return in 1567. At so early a date as 1561, Anthony Karon was burnt at a stake at Cambray. The name of Caron was well known among Protestant refugees in England. Moyse Caron was a witness to a baptism in 1592 at Canterbury. (In 1634, at Canterbury, Jacques, son of Israel Caron, obtained a wife from another family originally of Cambray, namely, Anne, daughter of Esaie Loffroy; and in 1666 their son was married in London. Marie, a daughter of Israel Caron, was married at Canterbury, in 1630, to a native of Valenciennes, Simon Bourgeois, and their son Isaac Bourgeois, was born in 1647.)
The celebrated name of Lefroy is a Gallicised form of the true surname Loffroy. The family came from Cambray to Canterbury. Antoine Loffroy first appears in the register of baptisms in 1590. He died before 1611, the date of the marriage of his son, Esaie, a native of Cambray, and a resident in Canterbury. Sir Henry Lefroy has called attention to the ecclesiastical edict of 1586, promulgated in the diocese of Cambray, and enforced by civil penalties in 1587, requiring all persons in public life, of every description and grade, to sign a test and to declare ​themselves Romanists. This, combined with family tradition, gives the probable year of the flight of the Loffroys. If we suppose that Antoine Loffroy and his wife became refugees in 1587, we may safely say that Esaie, who had been born in Cambray, was conveyed to Canterbury as an infant. In that hospitable city other children were born, the baptism of David, in 1590, being the first written evidence of his father’s settlement in England. The modern families of Lefroy spring from Esaie, the refugee babe.
Although we have not materials enabling us to picture an ancestor sentenced by Duke Alva, or to trace the flight of a Loffroy refugee from Cambray, we know the arms and motto of the family, both of which connect it with the patriots of the long years of persecution. The motto is mutare sperno (I scorn to change), and in the arms there is a red cap of no stereotyped heraldic pattern, but a special figure, probably copied from the burlesque costume of a beggar in a masquerade. Thus there is brought before us the historical scene when the patriots of the Netherlands vociferated in the faces of prelates and grandees, The beggars never change. In 1566 the Count of Barlemont, observing that the Regent Margaret was alarmed at the coming of a multitude of Protestants to her Court, said, “Madame, are you afraid of those beggars (ces gueux)?”; some have reported that he pointed at them and said, “What a brave company of gueux!” The Protestants and their political sympathisers accepted the designation. In the English language, those of them who maintained the confederacy at home were called gueuxes; and at a later date their sailors, who manned the privateers of the fleet of the beggars, were called water-gueuxes. Their watchword was Vivent les Gueux! Their medals, having the king’s head on the obverse, had, on the reverse, a beggar’s wallet held between two right hands, with the motto, Fidèles an Roi jusques à la besace. They wore a livery of grey cloth, and perhaps the Loffroy armorial bearing has handed down the pattern of their livery cap. At their public dinners they sang the following couplet:—
“Par ce pain, par ce sel, et par cette besace, Jamais les Gueux ne changeront pour chose que Ton fasse.”
Philippe de la Motte, minister of the French Church, Southampton, from 1586 to 1617, can be positively connected with Alva’s persecutions and their weary sequel. The following details from “Smiles’ Huguenots” apply to him (though the chronicler calls him Joseph). He was born at Tournay, of Roman Catholic parents, and was apprenticed to a silkman in his native town. His master was a Protestant. De la Motte became a convert to his religion, and on the outbreak of the Duke of Alva’s persecution, the young man removed to Geneva. In that academic retreat he studied theology, and was ordained to the ministry. He returned to Tournay, ostensibly as his old master’s journeyman, but also as minister to the Protestants, who had to worship secretly. A family manuscript, quoted by Mr Smiles, contains the following narrative:— “An information having been given against him to the Inquisition, they sent their officers in the night to apprehend him; they knocked at the door, and told his master (who answered them) that they wanted his man. He, judging who they were, called De la Motte; and he immediately put on his clothes, and made his escape over the garden wall with his Bible, and travelled away directly into France to St Malo. They, believing him to be gone the nearest way to the sea coast, pursued towards Ostend, and missed him. From St Malo he got over to Guernsey, and from thence to Southampton, where, his money being all gone, he applied himself to the members of the French Church there, making his condition known to them. Their minister being just dead, they desired he would preach to them the next Sabbath day, which accordingly he did, and they chose him for their minister.” On 20th November 1586 he married Judith des Maistres, a native of Armentieres. I find twelve children registered in the book of Southampton French Church, where the marriage took place, five daughters and seven sons, who founded families, spelling the name Delamotte. He died 6th May 1617, and the register styles him ministre de la Parole de Dieu de fameuse memoire. He was honoured with a public funeral.
Before the year 1567 fugitives from persecution came to England for shelter, but probably with no expectation or fixed resolution of taking root. In the year 1561 the Primate and the Dean granted to the fugitives in Canterbury the use of the ​western portion of the undercroft of the cathedral. The local historian, Somner, said (in 1640), “Let me now leade you to the Undercroft, a place fit — and haply (as one cause) fitted — to keepe in memory the subterraneous Temples of the Primitives in the times of persecution. The West part thereof, being spatious and lightsome, for many years hath beene the Strangers Church.” The silk weavers of the congregation plied their looms on the week days in this sanctuary; but as strangers, unresolved upon any final destination or settlement, they were content with toleration, indulgence, or connivance; they did not take legal steps for incorporation till 1567.
In that year their minister and schoolmaster drew up a Latin petition addressed to the Court of Burghmote, applying to be incorporated as manufacturers of “Florence serges, Bombasin, D. of Ascot serges, &c, of Orleance, Frotz, Silkwever, Mouquade, Mauntes, Bages, &c, Stofes Mouquades.” The Court received the petition on 15th July, 9th Elizabeth, and “agreed that there may be a company of the strangers received to inhabit within the Liberties of this city, by order from the Queen’s Council, and upon orders to be devised by this house.” These orders were issued in the year 1574, licensing their trade on the understanding “that they shall not make cloath or kersies, such as the English doe make at this present,” and that they “sell in gross and not by retaile.” The signatures to the petition of the year 1567 were Hector Hamon, minister; Vincent Primont, schoolmaster (institutor juventutis); Gilles Cousin, master of works (magister operum et conductor totius congregationis in opera); Michel Cousin, Jaques Guerin, Pierre Du Bosc, Jean de la Forterie, Noel Lestene, Nicolas Dubuisson, Antoine du Verdier, Philippe de Miez, Jean le Pelu, Pierre Desportes, Jaques Boudet, and tres viduae.
The pasteur, Hector Hamon, is supposed to have been of the same family as the writing-master and caligraphist (latterly secretary to Charles IX.) Pierre Hamon, who as a Protestant was strangled in the Place de Greve in Paris, 7th March 1569. He himself had been pasteur of Bacqueville in Normandy. He is reported as a settler in Rye in 1569 among Protestant strangers who “verie quietlie and orderlie use themselves.” The prayer of the Canterbury petitioners was not formally and finally granted until after an interval of seven years, and meanwhile Monsieur Hamon through chagrin may have left that city. But though the minutes of the Court of Burghmote do not record it, it is possible that the petition signed by him may have been presented in 1574; and if so we may suppose that his first appearance as a refugee was at Rye, and that he settled at Canterbury thereafter. He probably founded a refugee family; for in December 1735 we meet with Hector Hamon, Esq., Major in Howard’s Foot, and Colonel Isaac Hamon is in the Irish pedigree of the Champagnes.
The teacher, Vincent Primont, was probably a young man. He asked and obtained leave to teach the French language to English pupils, and was thus a public benefactor. His daughter Magdalen was married in the cathedral on 17th December 1599. The widow of “Maistre Primont” was alive on 25th December 1621.
The surname Cousin is deeply rooted in Great Britain, and those who bear the name claim French Protestant ancestry. The reader has observed Gilles and Michel Cousin on the Canterbury petition. The surname occurs again in Canterbury in 1596, Jan Cousin presenting his son Jan for baptism. But the name appears oftener in Southampton. In 1572 Antoine Cousin, a native of Armentieres, was married to Jane de la Croix: five daughters were born to him, three of whom, as well as himself, died of the plague in 1583. There were also two brothers, natives of Tournay, Gilles and Robert Cousin; the latter died in 1584; but Gilles had two sons, Pierre (born 1575) and Jaques {born 1577).
The surname De la Forterye also took root, though this refugee family, like many others, gravitated from Canterbury to London. They trace their pedigree to the Jean de la Forterie of 1567, who came from Lisle in Flanders. The refugee and his wife sailed for England, and a son was born to them “on ship-board, as they came.” He received the name of Nicolas. “Nicolas de la Fortrye” became a merchant in London, and married Anne, daughter of William Theissies (or Thieffries) also a London merchant. His three sons were duly chronicled in 1633-34:—
The third was sometimes styled “of Greenwich” and “of East Combe, Kent,” and founded the family of Fortrye of Wombwell Hall.
There came to England in 1680 the representative of a family, certainly involved in the old persecutions under Philip II. in the Netherlands, but at a later date than Duke Alva’s vice-royalty. Alexander, Prince of Parma (afterwards Duke), assumed the reins of government on 1st October 1578. Brussels was in the hands of the insurgents, having the Baron de Heez, a nobleman of Guelderland, and a Protestant, as its Governor. Parma took Brussels in 1585; Baron de Heez was made a prisoner; he was beheaded, and his estate was confiscated. His youngest son, Theodore Janssen de Heez, fled to France, and founded a family at Angouleme; and his grandson, Theodor Janssen, born in 1654, came as a French refugee to England in 1680, and founded a family of baronets.
In the year 1570, Anthony Solen, a refugee printer, received the freedom of the city of Norwich; in the liber introitnum there is this entry, “Alien, Anthony Solen, prynter, jurat-civ, 1570.” Mr George Vertue wrote to Mr Joseph Ames, in the middle of last century:—
“Monday, Sept. 8. — Sir, According to your desire I have here enclosed the short note I mentioned to you at the Society [of Antiquaries] concerning a printer who first introduced printing at Norwich.
“In 1565 many strangers from the low countries came and settled at Norwich city. Masters, workmen, and servants had Her Majesty’s letter-patent to work and make all sorts of woollen manufactures there; men, women, and children, about 3925. This was encouraged by the mayor and sheriffs of the city, who waited on Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, at his palace there, and consulted about such orders as was necessary to regulate affairs concerning strangers settling there, and having the freedom and liberty of the city granted to them. Amongst these strangers the art of printing was now introduced here by Anthony Solen, printer, one of the strangers, which was so well approved of by the city (1570) that they presented him with his freedom.”
As to the refugees of Norwich, Mr Burn says, “The Dutch congregation had the quire of the Friars Preachers’ Church assigned them for their religious assemblies; the French or Walloons had the Bishops’ chapel, and afterwards St Mary at Tombland.” The total of 3925, given by Mr Vertue, is founded on the “Searche,” or Census of 1571:—
Dutch (men), 868; Walloons (men), 203. Women, 1273; children under fourteen, 1681.
The following entries are copied from their surviving baptismal register:—
“1637. Abandon par le ministre et consistoire de l’eglise Wallonne de Norwich de la chapelle on ils avoient eu le privilege de s’assembler depuis 63 on 64 ans — s’assemblevont dorenavant au Temple de petite Sainte-Marie, à eux octoyé pour dix ans par les Magistrats.”
“1638. L’eglise de Norwich prend le nom d’eglise Flamengue.”
In the Public Record Office, the State Papers, domestic, Elizabeth, vol. 82, consist of “The Reporte of the Searche of all the Straungers wythin London and Southwark, and the liberties thereof, made the xth daye of November 1571.” The preamble of this report is:—
“To the ryght honorable the lordes of the Quene’s Maiestyes most honorable pryvie councell.
“Pleasythe youre honours, according to the tenor of youre honorable letters to us the Maior and Aldermen of London latelye directed for the Inquisicion and searche of all Straungers within this Citye and the lyberties of the same; We, on the tenth of this November, Informed the same accordinglye, as by thys booke heareafter at large maye appeare unto youre honours.”
The members and adherents of the French Church at the above date, in London and Southwark, the liberties and suburbs thereof, were 1450 in number. The Huguenots and their descendants numbered 657, but a few of these were of “no church,” and a few had joined their parish churches. Allowing for these deductions, the proportion of Walloons to Huguenots in the congregation of 1450 may have been 850 to 600. All these persons did not profess to be refugees on account of religious persecution. Two or three had come to England in the reign of Henry ​VIII. and these and some others, according to their statement, emigrated to England in order to prosecute their trades and earn a livelihood, with two exceptions, which will be found in a footnote. A few came into England in the next reign, of whom Morrys Mable, a householder and denizen, in St Faith’s Parish in Paul’s Churchyard, distinctly stated that he came into this realm from France about the third year of King Edward VI., but he had to add that he was of “no church.” A minister, whom the enumerator calls Adrian Redlegge, came in 1551 “for the word of God.” In the same year Richard Locye, leather-dresser, “came for religion,” also Matthew Renisan, hatmaker, and Robert Leyclarke [Le Clerc?], broker, and Jakalina, his wife. The reign of Mary, our Romish queen, lasted from July 1553 to November 1558, during which period several French Protestants, afterwards reported as denizens, came over, although their denization may have been granted at a later date.
It will be more congenial to our theme to note the Walloon and Huguenot immi- grants in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. We begin with names that took deep root in their adopted country.
James Claris (or Clarys, as the report has it, being partial to the letter y) was a silk-weaver, born at Lille, who with Katherine, his wife, came to England in March 1563. He “came for religion,” and joined the French Church of London under the pastorate of M. Cousin. In 1571 he was a denizen and a householder in St Stephen’s Parish, Coleman Street Ward, London.
Another surname comes to view, derived from a locality in Flanders — Ambrin, or Ambrine. But as the clerk of the consistory of the French Church was a Frenchman, he naturally thought of the fortress of Ambrun (now spelt Embrun), and the name was entered in the list of church members in 1568, and perhaps in earlier lists, as Dambrun. John Dambrune is entered in the census of strangers of 1571 as a joiner, and a householder in Blackfriars. He, with Jacqueline, his wife, and Laurentia and Jane, his daughters, came to England “for religion” in 1654, and joined the French Church of London. They are described as Burgundians. In 1570 William Dambrune, silk-weaver, born in Pallensen, came over for religion, and in 1571 he was working at his trade in the service of Henry Jonet (a refugee for religion since 1567), in St Bennet Grace Church Parish. From either John or William a London family descended, and they learned to spell their surname more correctly, viz., Dambrin. In the next century refugees came over to Canterbury. They, for once, hit upon their true name; for I find in the Canterbury French Church register of marriages in 1684 the name of “Francois Dambrin,” son of “Francois d’ Ambrin.” But usually the registrars were allowed to adopt every variety of spelling, Danbrinne, Danbrine, Dambrain, Danbrain, Dombrim, Danbrein, Dombrain.
In 1566 two merchants, Peter and Martin Bultayle, came into this realm for religion, and were joined in August 1571 by Pole [query Paul] Bultayle. These three merchants were Walloons, members of the French Church of London, and resident in the parish of St Bennet, Gracechurch. No doubt they were the ancestors of the present family of Bulteel, to whom we shall have occasion again to refer.
Turning to the parish of St Denys Backchurch, we find Marie Bultayle, widow, born at Tournay, who arrived in 1567 with her sons, Philip and Lawrence, and all of them members of the French Church; these sons probably ought to have a place in the same pedigree as the foresaid “merchaunts.”
Among the leading famililes of the French Church of Norwich there was the surname Farvaque or Farvacques. One of them was an ancien in 1608, and signed a petition to the Bishop of Norwich along with the pasteur. Only a copy of that petition has been preserved, in which copy his name was metamorphosed into “Jaques Fornesques” (Lansdowne MSS. 841, fo. 53, Brit. Mus., now imprinted by Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith). Perhaps we have the ancestor of this family of refugee gentlemen in the following person, entered in the census of strangers, London, 1571:— “Blackfriars, Ward of Farringdon Within. Anthonye Fervake, gentilman, a Burgondian, came into this realme about three monethes past, and soiournethe with Benula de la Courte.”
I have already mentioned the family of Ogier. One of them was a refugee in London in 1571:— “Ward of Bridge Without, St George’s Parish. John Ogier, of St Omer, of thage of xxix. yeres, in England iii. yeres, Quinta his wif, borne at Tourney, came over wth him and for religion; his wif of xxx. yeres, having a child of 10 yeres of age; silke-weaver.”
​In Canterbury in the year 1567 we have encountered a Jean de la Forterie. In the same year another of the same name (disguised by the official enumerator of 1571) came to London:— “Tower Ward, St Dunstan’s Parish. Nicholas Furtrye, of Thile, merchant, came into this relme iiii. yeres past for religion; Margeret his wif; Margarett & Samuell, childeren; Michaell his servant; & haith in his house Gilam Jefrye, of Thile, who came ii. monethes past for religion; Elizabeth his wif; Elizabeth and Antonetta his children.”
The last name in my list is Jaques Tuillier, minister, with his wife and two children. Whether he was a Le Thuieullier, and whether this entry contradicts the received statement that that no Lethieullier took refuge in England at this period, I am not able to decide.
Having singled out the surnames of which I seem to know something, I proceed to give an abridged account of other members of the French Church as described in the “Searche” for 1571, where they are arranged according to the parishes within which they were then residing. I here arrange them according to the years of their arrival in England. The reader must not suppose that only those “came for religion” whom I have thus described. I might have copied this description of a very large proportion of the individuals, but for brevity’s sake I have omitted it, except for an occasional special reason. (I have not copied mispelt baptismal names as I did in the list of denizens, neither have I thought it necessary to copy the favourite letter Y when used for I, unless when I am copying verbatim and between inverted commas.
1558.
1559.
William Brunnam, Frenchman, embroiderer, and Denise, his wife — “came hither for the persecutions’ sake in France” (resident in 1571 within the tenement of Master Mathew du Quester).
John Sharfe, born in Rouen, goldsmith.
Charles Chartes [Chartres?] born at Dieppe in Normandy, servant to Francis Derickson in 1571.
John Millome [Milhomme?], Burgundian, silk-weaver, and his wife.
Giles Wier, Frenchman, silk-weaver, and his wife.
Nicolas Remy, born at Mouse in Henego, silk-weaver, and Marie, his wife.
Peter Philater, born in Normandy, liveth by silk-working.
Giles de Milcam, born at Newfeld, by Ricell in Flanders, silk-weaver, and Clare, his wife; she came in 1561. John Mountaine, their servant, born in Brussels; came in 1571 for religion. Their other servant, Symonde Bewfatt, in the same year, “cam to seeke his father and mother, who now be deade, and he remayneth servant as aforesaide.”
1560.
William Yollone, Frenchman, joiner.
Nicolas Byshowe [Bichôt?], born in Burgundy, silk-weaver, and Catherine, his wife.
Jane Carrey [Carre?], widow, mother-in-law of Nicolas Bistowe.
1561.
Nicolas Formoise, born in Lusiers in France, cutler, and Thomasine, his wife. (John Norishier, his servant, born in Paris, came in 1571 and joined the French Church.) Peronne Kirton, widow, born in “Luke’s” in Flanders.
Romaine Mainmora, born in Rouen, and Frances, his wife (she came in 1564; he became servant to Mr Daye, printer).
Margaret Delavais, liveth by making silk lace.
​Nicolas Lardenois, Burgundian, goldsmith, and Frances, his wife.
Denys Veille, born at Nosvon Suzandall in Normandy, silk-weaver, and Marie, his wife, born by Brussels in Brabant.
John Powkes, born in Valencia, and Pasquin, his wife, born in Bruges.
Toussaint Viot and his wife, born in France.
Gabriel Hemman, Frenchman, and his wife.
Peter Demoubre, born in Burgundy, silk weaver, and Frances, his wife.
Renaud Cock [Coq?], born in France, embroiderer, and Agnes, his wife.
John Bellfold, born in France.
Giles Gorner, born in France, silk-weaver, and his wife.
Amnion Molton, Burgundian, silk-weaver, and his wife.
John Lamuell, Frenchman, musician, his wife, and two children.
Peter Derones, born in Henego, silk-weaver, and Jane, his wife. His servants, John and Moses Werie, and Jane Lebrouin, also came hither for religion.
Nicolas Blane, of Vallance, silk-weaver, aged 16, servant with Terry de la Haye. (In 1571 he had a wife, Antoinette, then aged 24, and a daughter, Marie, aged 2.)
William Barnes, of “Petune,” silk-weaver, aged 13. In 1571 he married Perone, aged 17, of Cambray, a refugee who had arrived in May of that year. Both came over for religion.
John Mahewe [Mahieu?], Burgundian, silk-weaver. Anthony Bornale and Paeon, his wife, “cam over for religion” in 1562, “who lyeth nowe [in 1571] in the house of the said Mahewe, and go all to the Frenche Church.”
John Barbe, born at Tournay, silk-weaver.
Remy Le Clerke [Le Clerc?], of Henault, aged 29. In 1571 he had a wife, Anne, then aged 28, and one child, Abraham, born in London.
Thomas Biggen, born at Rouen, quilt-maker.
Thomas Fountein, born in Lille, silk-dyer, Barbara, his wife, Peter and Theophile, their children.
1562.
John de la Myer, Frenchman, goldsmith. (Jacqueline, his wife, a Fleming, came in 1571.)
Launcelot Lardie, goldsmith, Catherine, his wife, and Sara, their daughter.
Peter Bennet, Frenchman, and his wife.
Mary Breart, Frenchwoman, widow, and two daughters.
John Turwin, born in Henego, silk-weaver, and Louise, his wife.
Terrey de la Haye, of Tournay, silk-weaver, aged 22. (He married Marie, of Valence, and their children were born in England, viz., Abraham in 1565, John in 1566, Elizabeth in 1569, and Marie in 1571. He had in 1571, as a servant, Francis de la Pine, a Cambresian, aged 22, who came for religion).
Hans Hoffstad and Peter Boleyn, born in the Low Countries, merchants, and their wives.
Nicolas Mollier, of Rissell, in the Low Countries, merchant.
1563.
Peter Bezo, born in Valencia beyond Antwerp, servant with Richard Watts, tailor.
Nicolas Olter and his wife, born in France.
Michael Corseills, born in Flanders, merchant, and Josyn, his wife.
James Tabey, of Valencienne, silk-weaver, aged 22. (Marie, who came over in 1567, became his wife.)
Victor Colin, born in Rouen, silk-weaver, and Margaret, his mother; he married an Englishwoman, and in 1571 had two children.
Martin Ford, born in Rouen, is a coke [cook].
Anne Gorett, widow, born at Antwerp — “she lyveth by surgerye.”
Harman Pottey (factor to Jaques Delafalis), Catherine, his wife, and Hans Comperce, his servant.
James Claris (see above).
1564.
Lewis Seneor, Frenchman. John Hue and his wife, his servants.
Thomas Farsivill, born at Armentieres, goldsmith, and Jacqueline, his wife.
Denys Demaster, Burgundian, silk-twister, and his wife.
Henry Leycocke [Le Coq?], born in Tournay, merchant, Joanne, his wife, and a child.
Gloie de Guie, of Paris, comb-maker, aged 26, and Jacqueline, his wife, aged 53.
Denys Debonnige, Burgundian, weaver of cruell lace. Marie, his wife, came in 1567.
John Lambart, born in Flanders, cobbler.
1565.
James Scrusier, cook, and Marie, his wife.
Angelo Victoris, Sardinian, schoolmaster, and Anne, his wife, joined the French Church.
Samuel Maxsion, born at Annys, tailor, and Adrienne, his wife.
Marie Garde, born in Constance in Normandy, maid-servant to John Petiawe.
John Pawle, of Maestricht, leather-dresser, aged 34, and Catherine, his wife, aged 28; also Paul Mattowe, his servant, and Anne, his wife. (In 1571 he received two new-comers, Andreas Bourge, of Maestricht, aged 20, and Peter Seneschall, of Arras, aged 21.)
Gerrard de Moincke, of Tournay, packthread-maker, aged 30, and Jane, his wife, aged 20; his brother, James Le Moincke, aged 13, and a boy, John Venella, aged 8.
Lewis Bergis, born at Doffyn [Dauphiné?] in France, tailor, Martin, his wife, and John de Chan [De Champ?], his servant.
James Cockey, born at “Russell,” packthread-maker, Marie, his wife, and Susan, her mother.
Henry Reymond, born in Tournay, maker of sackcloth, Agnes, his wife, and Lewis, Philippe, Catherine, Ester, Madeline, and Susan, their children, all strangers born.
James Dennis, of Bruges, silk-weaver, and Margaret, of Collen [Cologne], his wife.
1566.
Richard Tanville, French born, coppersmith, and Collet, his wife.
John Marchaunt [Marchand?], Frenchman, turner, and Quintaine, his wife.
Martin Drewe [Dru, or Le Dru?], Burgundian, shoemaker. Barbara, his wife, came in 1569.
Peter Goodman [Bonhomme?], Burgundian, silk-weaver, Michelle, his wife, and Daniel, their son; also Jane Gentile, their mother.
Paulles Tepotts, born at Dist in Brabant, scrivener, sworn before my Lord of Canterbury, and Cornelys, his wife, born at Antwerp; “they cam bothe hyther the firste of Maye 1566, for religion, and are of the Frenche churche.”
Anthony Wrighte, born in Friesland, “who cam for religion.”
Martin Demon [De mont? or, Diemen?], and his wife.
Gratian Deroye, and Margaret, his wife; liveth by dressing of hemp.
John Edwin, born in Flanders, silk-weaver, and his wife.
John Demare, Walloon, tailor. Farnardo, also a Walloon and a tailor, had come in 1564.
Francis Florin, silk-weaver; Marie, his wife, Peter, Paul, Agnes, and Madeline, their children.
John Large, and Walter, his brother, silk-weavers.
Peter Gibbert, born in Rouen, embroiderer, and Catherine, his wife; “they cam hether, as they saye, bycause of troubles that were then in Roan.” Jacqueline, wife of Peter La Feveron, silkweaver, born in Burgundy, and Jane, their daughter.
James Tellomond, born in Valencia, tailor, and Catherine, his wife.
Peter Furry, born in Valencia, weaver.
Peter Pinnforth, Frenchman, and his wife. (In the same house there were with him, in 1571, Baydinge Hockett and his wife, and Denys Hewicke, joiner.)
Martin Broke, Frenchman, and his wife.
Jane de Nova, of Lille, widow.
Francis Marshall, Walloon, merchant, and Jane, his wife.
John Jeffrey, born in Flanders, merchant, and his wife, and his brother, James Jeffrey, merchant; Elizabeth Peters, their maid, and Anthony Caviliar, their man-servant.
Anthony Russell, born in Verwick in Flanders, tailor. (In 1571 he had an English wife, and lodged with Agnes Tolnage, widow.)
Antonatt Adam, widow, Burgundian, silk-weaver, and Sara, Rebecca, Rachel, and Isaac, her children.
Nicolas de Prute, aged 25, born in Valencia, silk-weaver. (In 1571 he had a wife, aged 20.)
John Barley, born under King Philip, aged 38, carver.
Antoine Caronne, Burgundian, aged 31, fustian-weaver, and Catherine, his wife, aged 20.
Nicolas Bassiet, Burgundian, his wife and son.
Elizabeth Chaudren, widow; Allison Chaudren, her sister; and John Kerton, her servant. (In 1568 there were with her, Giles Butler, a dyer; Marie, his wife; and her mother, Francis Brokell.)
Joanne de la Courte, born in Valencienne; she came for religion, and was married in England to James Remy, silk-weaver, a refugee for religion since 1553. In 1570 she was joined by her sister Marie, who “lyveth by workinge wth her nedell.” In 1571 there was in the same house Marie, a poor child whose parents were deceased, and was “kept of alms by the said James Remy.”
1564.
John Gabie, born in Valencia in Burgundy, silk-weaver, and Joanne, his wife.
John Mansell, Frenchman, carver, and his wife.
Glode Benvois, Frenchman, crossbow-maker.
Christopher Lardenois, Burgundian, goldsmith.
John de la Tour, Burgundian, turner, and Marie, his wife.
Nicolas Garret, cobbler.
James Lemure, born in Artois, goldsmith.
Peter de Bonsquil, born in Flanders, merchant, and Iva, his wife.
John van Hesse, born in Brabant, joiner, member of the French Church.
John Dewie, born at Engye in Henego, and Jeneker, his wife; their trade is making of sackcloth. In 1571 they had two men-servants.
Richard Skilders, born at Engye in Henego, and Thokyn, his wife, sojourners with the said John Dewie. He came into England at Lent 1567, and liveth as a servant by printing with Thomas East, stationer; she came over at Easter, 1568, “and they cam for Relygion, and be of the Frenche Churche.” Guillaume Coppin, a Walloon, silk-weaver, his wife and five children.
Peter de Puis, born in France, stationer. Noel de Puis, his brother, and servant, came in 1571 — sojourner with Marques Stacie. (See 1569.) John Carr, and Jane, his wife, both born at Arras, and three children;” six servants, being Italians and glassmakers, came in 1571 — all of the French Church.
Jacqueline Farriner, widow, born in Tournay, and Ester, her daughter. Denys de Prie, Anthony Guillam, and Peter de la Haye, glassmakers, came in 1569, and sojourn in her house.
Anthony Mare, bookbinder, and John Yarne, joiner, born in Burgundy; “they cam for religion.”
Adrian Preace, leather dyer, servant to Nicolas Deporte.
Dominique de la Noy [De Lannoy?], born in Flanders, tailor, and Elizabeth, his wife.
Godfrey Caginon, Cambresian [i.e., native of Cambray], hatband-maker, and Marie, his wife.
Margaret Fountaine, widow, and Phillippes, Palles, Ester, Daniel, and James, her children.
James Diosie and Peter Dellhey.
Robert Patriar, born in Flanders, twister of silk.
Thomas Smith, born in Flanders, turner, and his wife.
Stephen Denys, Burgundian, silk-weaver, and his wife.
Richard Thorne, Burgundian, tailor, and his wife.
John Cles, Burgundian, silk-weaver, and his wife.
Nicolas Delainoy, born in “the lande of Luke,” merchant, and Catherine, his wife, Lewis Bishop, merchant, Joanne, his wife, and David, his son.
John Pitte, of Gaunt, Phillippe, his wife, Marie and Annis, their daughters.
Hugh Bishoppe, Frenchman, merchant. Francis Bishoppe (son of the said Hugh), Gilles, his wife, and John, Ester, and Anne, their children. (In 1571 they had a manservant, a refugee just arrived.)
Lucas van Pieme, of “Ryssell,” in Flanders, merchant.
John Sara, born at Lyons, weaver, Marie, his wife, and Lucretia, his daughter.
Anthonie Henricke, born in Henego in Artois, a twister of silk, Jane, his wife, John, Charles, Catherine, and Susan, his children.
John Debalion, born at Henego, twister of silk, Colin, his wife, and Lorance, his son.
James Bullen, born in France, silk-weaver, aged 56, and his wife, aged 26.
Alexander Muckowe, of Valence, flax-dresser, aged 36, Simona, his wife, aged 26, and John, their son.
John de Boye, of Cambray, fustian weaver, aged 23, and Jane, of Cambray, his wife, aged 34.
John Deverage, born in Armander in Flanders, silk-weaver, and Marie, his wife; he “cam over for religion, and useth to gooe to the Frenche churche.”
John Franklin, born in Armander in Flanders, and Catlinge, his wife; “have ii. children and resorte to the Frenche churche.”
Henry de Campyna, born in Brabant, painter, and Jocan, his wife; “they have ii. children, and a mayde called Joane Bowes, they resorte all to the Frenche churche.”
Adam Hoyat, born in Artoise, parchment maker, Marie, his wife, and one child.
His servants came in 1570 for religion, namely, Charles de Kenne and Jacob Byers, both born in Artois.
Peter Pau, felt-maker, Anne, his wife, and Colet, her mother, “who cam into Eng- lande for religeon,” are sojourners with Adam Hoyat.
Margaret Poumare [Pommare?], of Armentieres, widow, and four children.
Felix Larroue, born at Armentieres, Agnes, his wife, and one child.
Noah Bodoue, silk-weaver, Marie, his wife, and two children.
John de Graves, born in Brabant, joiner, and Hereanne, his wife.
John de Houssey [Houssaye?], born in Valence, gunstock-maker, Jacqueline, his wife, and Marie, their daughter.
Corayne, born in Valencia, liveth by brokery (1571).
Barbara de Latore, silk-weaver, born in Vallance, and Baldwin de Latore, her son.
Ambrose Hughbright, born in Lovaine, civil lawyer.
Lucan Sauen, Walloon, silk-weaver, Jane, his wife, Crispian, Daniel, Judith, and Sara, their children.
Peter Mannock, Walloon, silk-weaver, Jacomyn, his widowed mother, Giles, his brother, and Joanne, his sister.
John Rohe, Walloon, joiner, and Agnes, his wife.
Christian Gnelladie, a Fleming, silk-weaver, Marie, his wife, Phcebe and Anne, his daughters.
Peter Salvage, Walloon silk-weaver.
Jerome Halee, of Lille in Flanders, surgeon, Felix, his wife, and five children.
John Forman, born in Flanders, silk-weaver, Jane, his wife, John, Daniel, and Marie, his children; “came into Englande for feare of the Tyrannye of the Duke of Alva.”
Henry Widder, born at Tournay, weaver, and Berba, his wife.
Anthony Agachie, of Lille, a notary public authorized, and Jacqueline, his wife.
Roman and his wife, Burgundians.
Peter and his wife, Burgundians.
John Workman, born at Valencien in Henault, kenner of wool, Ellen, his wife, and Judith, their daughter.
Gilbert Toute-La-Monde [Tout-le-monde], born at Marcade, servant with Hans Hulste in 1571 (see my Gleanings from old registers of baptisms, anno 1605).
Jacob Cosier, born in Burgundy, aged 26, servant with Andrew Mullenbeck, gun-maker.
Peter Canon, of Nivelle in Brabant, silk-weaver, aged 40, and Marcella, his wife, aged 18 (Peter, their son, was born in London in 1571).
Alexander Millaine, born in Brabant, hosier, Catherine, his wife, and John, his son.
John Decuse, servant in 1571 to Richard Allyn, cordwainer.
Charles Gobert, his wife, and three children.
Antonia Formatrou, widow, born in Flanders; her trade is to make worsted yarn.
John de Lobell, born in Flanders, merchant, and Michelle, his wife.
John Suckey, Burgundian, tailor. Joanne, his wife, came in 1568.
Nicolas Doussone, Burgundian, tailor.
John Lackney, Walloon, potmaker.
Matthew Deproine, born at Hennego, and John Fever, basketmaker, servants in 1571 to Richard Robinson.
Mark Garret, born at Bruges, picture-maker, Susan, his wife, Mark and Ester, their children.
Henry Beaveward, of Luke, leather dresser, aged 32; Margaret, his wife, aged 36; and four children, Abraham, aged 5; David, born at Antwerp, aged 2. A child, Judith, was born in England in December 1569.
James De Roe, born in Flanders, locksmith, Marie, his wife, and Jacqueline, their daughter.
Giles Founteine, born in Flanders, “lyveth by makinge of buttons,” Pastinne, his wife, and Jerome, his son.
Arnold Barnard, merchant, Marie, his wife, Francis, David, and Susan, their children.
Nicolas Furtrye [Fortrye?], see above.
Henri de la Haie, sackcloth weaver, Florence, his wife, Peter, Israeli, and Agnes, his children, and Peter, his cousin.
John Konge, Burgundian, his wife, and three children. In 1571 there were twenty-one souls in his house, including John Bellinger and his wife, who came in 1568; John Dugland and his wife, Levin Adropp and his wife, and a servant, John Begott, a boy.
Audry Stilman, born in Brabant, merchant.
1568.
Peter Oliver [Olivier?], born in Normandy, Tyffen [Tiphaine?], his wife, and Isaac, his son.
Valentine Shavetier [Chavetier?], Frenchman, box-gilder, and Margaret, his wife.
John Pirsaie, Burgundian, goldsmith.
Adrian Tressell, schoolmaster, Frances, his wife, Charles, David, and Abigail, their children.
Hanne Dehambarke, widow, parchment lacemaker, and Sara, her daughter; also Maria Deponte, a child, having neither father nor mother, who be kept of alms.
Isabel Leicocke [Le Coq?], born in Flanders, “sempster.”
Lewis de Rouse, born in Flanders, and his wife.
Jaques Taffin, who was Receiver to the King of France, born at Tournay; Anna his wife; Denys, Jehan, and Jaques, their children.
Francis Stycklinge, born in Valencia, servant to Adrian Brickpott, goldsmith; “his cominge was for religion, he is no denizein, but he is of the Frenche churche.” Peter Tifry, silk-weaver, and Chrispanes, his wife; John Goddio, silk-weaver, and Barbara, his wife, and Plone Tuurquey, a widow; they were born in Tournay, and all sojourn (1571) in the house of Margaret Roberts.
John Bountifer, born in Burgundy, silk-weaver, and Blanche, his wife.
John Deloguta, born at Tournay, capmaker, with a wife and four children.
James Frier, born in Tournay, “a brogar,” Elizabeth, his wife, and James, John, Anne, and Mary, their children.
Thomas De la Grange, born in Tournay, cobbler, and his wife.
Anthony Jewrie, “a valbowne” [Walloon], Margaret, his wife, and Marie and Ester, their children.
Hercules Dobbie, born under the Emperour’s dominion, silk-weaver, and his wife.
James Drurie and Elie Fossie, born in Valencia in France, partners, live by the dressing of flax.
James Le Quien [Le Quesne], born in Tournay, Anne, his wife, and Marie, their daughter.
Robert Carpenter, born in Tournay, physician, and Catherine, his wife.
Arnold Heynowe [Hainau, or Henault?], Frenchman, silk-weaver, Ellen, his wife, and Leonard, their son.
John Peter [Pierre?], Frenchman, button-maker, and Madeline, his wife. Their servants, Peter Peter and John Peter, came as refugees in 1570.
Martin Lygear [Ligier?], silk-weaver, and his wife.
Alexander Peter and his wife, born in France, “a buyer and seller of horse.”
Charles Depenway, born at Valencia, a weaver of cruell; Lewis, Jane, and Barbara, his children.
Clere Ramon, born in Tournay, wife of Hans Hulst.
Jane Josine, widow, of Valence, aged 52. In 1569 she was joined by Julienne Josine, widow, aged 39. In 1571 they had with them Marie Josine, aged 13, and Jane Josine, aged 12. Their trade is to spin wool.
John Preiste, born in Rouen, schoolmaster, his wife, and his brother’s son.
Dominique Meiser, of Toulouse, a carver in stone, aged 24; Clara, his wife, born in Paris, aged 18; and James, their infant son, born in Paris. (In 1571 there was another son, Andrew, aged 11 months; and in that year he had a servant who came over for religion, John Boddeare [Bodier], of Vallence, aged 35.)
John Ogier, see above.
Oliver Nevell, born in Flanders, silk-weaver, and Marie, his wife, both of the French Church; “he came hether because his countrey was destroyed wth Enemies.”
Rowland Hetrewe, born in Valencia, silk-weaver, Catherine, his wife, and two children.
Nicolas Brame, his servant. Sable Depois, his maidservant (she came in 1569).
Thomas Founteine, of Valencia, Catherine, his wife, John and Thomas, his children; “he lyveth upon his stock.”
Noe Le Bock [or, Le Bucke], born in Henago, merchant. He married Anne, born in Paris, who had come in 1566, both for religion, and had a son, Noe, born in 1569.
Joanne Graundverte, her maid, came with her in 1566. They had another maid in 1571, a refugee just arrived, Marie Despinoye, born in Valencienne.
Sainte de Meres, widow, born in Tournay, Adrienne, Marie, and Joanne, her daughters. She is sister to Gilmote, wife of Henry Jonet (see 1567).
John Deverage, born at Armentieres, silk-weaver, and Marie, his wife.
John Franklin, born at Armentieres, silk-weaver, Catlinge, his wife, and two children.
Guillamme Rey, a Fleming, dresser of hemp, Mathewe, his wife, Philip, his son, and Lewis, his cousin.
Jane Buckey, widow, a Fleming, spinner of yarn, and Adriana, her daughter.
Matthew Delaymontem, a Fleming, silkwainer, Marie, his wife, Timothy, Abraham, Marie, and Sara, his children, and Lamberd Cordiner, his servant.
James Beane, Burgundian, silk-weaver, Jacqueline, his wife, Noy, his son, and Marie, his daughter; “cam into Englande for the Gospell.”
Stais Tirrie, of “Russell,” “a maker of fustian naples,” and Elizabeth, his wife.
Guillaume Meder, born in Normandy, crossbow-maker, Blanche, his wife, and Marie, their daughter.
Dominique de Florctt (lodger with Joyes Vandemanys, shoemaker).
John Cubis, of Flanders, schoolmaster, Christopher, his wife, Jousse Farresse, his servant, and John Moission, a student of Brussels.
Govert Haumells, born at Antwerp, Clara, his wife, Arthur, Abel, William, and Susan, their children; he tcacheth the French tongue (1571).
Peter Broke, born in Flanders, aged 27, dyer, and Magdalen, his wife, aged 25.
Anthony Kaissar, or Emperour, born at Tournay, merchant-stranger, his wife, and three maidens.
Jairus Cadgena, born in Burgundy, his wife and two children. (In 1571 there were twelve souls in his house, all reported as of the French Church, including “one Symon, who haith byne a frier.”)
1569.
Marques Stacie, French person, born at Stegehera, broker, Frances, his wife, and Nicolas, his child.
John de Blanques, Frenchman, bookbinder; resident in 1571 within the tenements of Mr Matthew de Quester.
Guy and Nicolas Barnarde, brothers, soldiers, “cam for religion,” “are yet of no churche, but go to the French Church by occacon.” Jasper Galier, born in Tournay, weaver.
Peter Degardant, Burgundian.
Matthew Ruben, born in Flanders, silk-weaver, and Peter, his son.
Ellen Delamoto, widow, and Agnes, her maid.
John Pinnie, born in Tournay, flax-dresser, aged 36; Simona, his wife, aged 26; and John, their son.
Massie Chaudron, born beside Dieppe, servant with John Petiawe.
Francis Crocosan, born in Flanders, cordwainer, and Marie, his wife.
Marc de Rounde, born in Burgundy, baker, and Margerie, his wife.
Peter Brene, Walloon, silk-weaver.
Robert Detter, born at “Russell,” joiner, and Peronne, his wife.
Nicolas Bonneroy, of Tournay, silk-weaver, Margaret, his wife, and one child.
Michael Causshe, born at Tournay, hosier, Marie, his wife, and five children.
Francis Baldwin, born at Brabant, “liveth of his friendes.”
Andrew Samean, born in Flanders, parchementer, aged 28, Margaret, his wife, and three children.
Julian Sauter, born in Flanders, parchementer, aged 28, and Catherine, his wife, aged 29.
Francis Marten, born in Brussels, and Gartred, his wife. [1571. He “kepeth a table for straungers, and has lodgers, namely, Jeremias Jorden, Walloon, physician, and John Philippe, the post between this city and Sandwich; also, John Van Renoy, John Garrett, and Thomas Arnest, who “have byn in Englande since the cominge of the shippes of the Prince of Orenge, and do belonge to the same.”]
1570.
Gabriel Martin, Burgundian, silk-weaver.
Peter Crater, Burgundian, hatband-maker.
Adrian Stoke, Burgundian, merchant.
Peter Eger, born in France, tailor, and his wife. Peter Dosancorts and one Didier, also tailors, lodged in his house in 1571.
Francis Kreaper, born at Arras, silk-weaver, Catherine, his wife, and Marie, their daughter.
Mary Cransey, widow, born in Flanders, aged 34, and one daughter, aged 2. Her servants are Laurence Peryman, silk-weaver, aged 26, and John Clarke, aged 24.
Philippe Carden, born in Antwerp, silk-weaver, aged 33; Janakyn, his wife, aged 27; and three children.
Charles Treasie, a Walloon born, silk-weaver, and Jane, his wife.
Lewis Mahuue [Mahieu?], born at Lille, sackcloth-weaver, Martin, his wife, and six children.
Mallerd de Mairelles, silk-weaver, and Jacqueline, his wife.
Peter Longe, born in Rouen, trader in merchandise, and Rollinne, his wife.
Peter Lull, born in Hembar, in Flanders, merchant, and factor to John Van Move in 1571.
Peter de la Place, born in St. Omer’s, silk-dyer, servant with Thomas Pounteine.
William Dambrune, see above.
1571.
Jerom Dycan, Dutchman, member of the French Church, Jane, his wife, and Jerom, Henricke, and Jane, their children.
Bartholomew Heweghowe, Dutchman, member of the French Church, Jane, his wife, and Isaac, Catherine, Jane, and Judith, their children.
Michael Bowdwen [Baudouin?], born beside Tournay, and Francis, his wife.
Stephen Cameas, servant with Michael Cameas, bookbinder.
Ashton Shovyne [Chovein?], Frenchman, crossbow-maker, and Rosier his wife; attend the parish church.
Druat [blank], widow, born in France; she sojourneth with her son-in-law, an Englishman.
Anthonie Fervake [Farvacque?], gentleman, see above.
Margaret Harbark, silk-spinner.
Nicolas Herns, born in Valenciennes, silk-weaver, and his wife.
Bartholomew Debeas, servant to Ammon Molton.
Jerome Martin, salter, and his wife.
Ferno Rimere [Rimier?], Burgundian, tailor, and his wife.
Denys Bacheler, born in Flanders.
Simon Henande, silk-weaver, and his wife.
John Seven, a Walloon, and Marie, his wife. Their maid servants, Jacqueline and Jeanne Hicke, are also refugees and dressers of hemp.
Galetta le Torr, liveth by silk-working.
Alexander De Prie, born in Tournay, Margaret, his wife, James, Agnes, and Judith, their children; they live by making parchment lace.
Francis du Feaver, of Valencienne, a thicker of cloth, aged 50, and Brasnetta, his wife, aged 60; “in England viii. dayes,” they “came over for religion.” With him there is named Clement Butterflie, of Rouen, aged 45; “in England goyng and comynge these viii. or ix. yeres, his last comynge about viii. monethes past, and for religion as he saith, servant to Thomas Gwertyn, of Roan.”
Ambrose Brittayne, born in Cambray, aged 36; Pocket Barbier, his wife; Guillaume, their son, aged 10; Catherine, their daughter, aged 18 months.
Andros Walley, born in “Durte in Selande;” “he hath byn in this realme vi. weeks, and cam for religion.”
John Marois, born at Antwerp, “who cam for religion about xiii. daies agooe.”
Salvie Busscope [Biscop?], born in Flanders, silk-weaver, aged 48; Marie, his wife, aged 40; and five children between 3 years and 17.
John Badoue, born in Flanders, a sawyer of stones, aged 40; Elizabeth, his wife, aged 50; and three sons, aged 26, 12, and 8.
Percival Criansey [Creanee?], born in Flanders, capper, aged 50; his wife, and one daughter aged 8; live with Widow Cransey [or Criansey? or Creanee?], see 1570.
Jacob Bukey [Bouquet?], born in Flanders, a parchementer, aged 26; Jane, his wife, aged 46; and one manchild and a daughter between 12 years and 8.
Daniel Daffin, of Tournay, aged 45, servant to Henry Beadman of Brabant (a chandler of the Italian Church).
Sainte (or Sayate) de Raye, a maid that worketh fine sleeves.
Eugram Aloo, a Fleming, silk-weaver, his wife, and May and Jane, his daughters; followed into England by John Ortey, a kynner of wool, Bauduin, his wife, and Nicholas, his son.
John Juda, Walloon, silk-weaver.
John Pilos, Walloon, silk-weaver.
Hannibal Barbilley, born at Lille, silk-weaver, Marie, his wife, and Jacqueline,her sister.
Honoree Lebren, born at Tournay, widow, and two children; also Youmana, born at Cambray, widow.
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 “wth a yonge suckinge childe.”
[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:—
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.
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).
​1568. Ministers, Strangers, London. — In the parish of St. Edmund’s, Anthonie Rodulphs, Professor of the Gospel in the house of Mr. Sherington; and these did adjoyn themselves with him when he came first to the said house, viz., Vincent Bassens, Frenchman, minister of the Gospel, and by that name put in exile by commandment of the French King. Laur Bourghinomus, minister of the Gospel, of the household of Cardinal Castilion; James Machevillens, minister of the Gospel, and put in exile; Antonius Lixens, of the same profession, and John Aubries of the Church of Bolloyne, exiled with others of the Gospel. [Strangers that go to the English Church: Mr. Anthonie, preacher, of the city of Jeane.] Stephen De Grasse, an old French preacher, and his wife, go to the French Church. St. Olyffe and Alhallows Staining: James Deroche, preacher, Frenchman, and Mary, his' wife. Eastcheap: Peter Hayes, born in Rone [Rouen], goes to the French Church, and dwelleth with his son, the minister of St. Buttolph. Tower Ward in St. Dunstan’s Parish in the East: John Vouche, John Marny, John Bowthand, and Robert Philip, all ministers, being Frenchmen; Stephen Marvey, minister, and his wife. St. Olyff and Alhallows Staining: James De Rache, preacher, and Mar)', his wife. Blackfriars: Mr. Cossyn, Frenchman, minister, and Breugen, his wife, come for religion, with three boys, with two wenches, which go to school, and are of the French Church. In St. Martin’s-le-Grand: Peter Banks and Ursin, ministers of the French Church. And Olyver Rowland and Bustein, ministers of the French Church. And Nove Banet, Frenchman, minister.
1618. Bishopgate Ward: Abraham Aurelius, minister of the Fr. congreg. in London, b. in London. Charles Lebon, preacher, b. in Sandwich.
1621. Dovor: Mr Moyses Cartanet [Castanet?], minister and preacher of Godes word. Mr Aaron Blondell, minister and preacher of the word of God.
* ↑ Quoted in “Collins’ Peerage” (Brydges’ edition), vol. v. p. 29. The Radnor Papers mention a German martyr named De Fournestraux, who was burnt at the stake, being drawn to the place of execution by his own coach-hordes.
* ↑ Gerard Brandt’s “History of the Reformation in the Low Countries,” vol. i. (published 1671, translated into English 1720). For all historical matter I am mainly indebted to that justly-celebrated historian.
* ↑ See Anderson’s “Ladies of the Reformation,” second series.
* ↑ While John Utenhove died in peace in London before 156S, as superintendent of the refugee congregation, his kinsman, Antony Uitenhove, a gentleman of Ghent, was a victim of the Bloody Tribunal. “Smiles’Alva roasted him alive, tying him, for the diversion of the Spaniards, to a long chain, and turning him round the stake, which was encompassed with a circle of fire, till the guards, moved with the painful and tedious sacrifice, despatched him with their halberds in spite of the Duke.” — Brandt.
* ↑ There is no grant by Royal Charter, though there is a tradition of royal charters from Elizabeth and Charles II., and even from Edward VI. If there were any such, they were lost.
* ↑ For more particulars see a Paper on the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, by W. S. Scott Robertson, in Archaologia Cantiana, vol. xiii. Through being allotted to the refugees as a Christian church, the western part of the crypt gained a celebrity which was denied to the eastern. “The lofty eastern crypt had been, in 1546, assigned to the use of the First Prebendary, and was occupied by successive holders of that prebend as a cellar for wood and coal, from 1546 until (about) 1866.” — Page 551.
* ↑ Motley gives the date of the capitulation of Brussels, 13th March 1585, but mentions no executions.
* ↑ For instance, James Macadie, resident within St Dunstan’s Parish in the West, had been in England for sixty years, and must have come over in 1511, the third year of Henry VIII.; and as that reign ended on 28th January 1545, all strangers, who had been resident in England for more than a quarter of a century, according to the census of 1571, must have come during its course. Two householders came for religion in 1541 (33 Hen. VIII.), namely, Rowlin Bellmare, and James Mort, locksmith, with Adrienne, his wife.
* ↑ “Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany,” Part iii. 1879.
* ↑ Where I have materials, I have made the accounts of a wife or children to apply to the year of a refugee’s arrival in England; but in this case, and in most cases, the state of the family in 1571 is all that I know.
* ↑ 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 xxxiiij$^{ty}$ yeres having to wif Elizabeth ffakerbe, of thage of xxx$^{ty}$ 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.