David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ And it so happened that they took hold of the marriage of Jean Six and Marie Le Houcq as a specimen case, assailed it as a clandestine marriage, excommunicated Jean Six and his wife, and suspended from the ministry the officiating pasteur, M. Delon. Upon a petition to the king all this ecclesiastical censure was reversed. The French Church marriages were not again interfered with — a conclusion which became all the more real, when in the course of five years the fresh hordes of fugitives from the persecutions in France, made it evident that refugee life was not yet a thing of the past. ”

“ Jean Six married Anne, daughter of Estienne Duthoit, on 17th July 1651. He had two sons, Jacques and Jean. Jacques Six (born 1652) , married Marie Le Keux, on 7th December 1676, and had a son, Estienne, who left an only child, Anne. The younger Jean Six (born 1654) married, on 27th January 1676 (n.s.) , Marie, daughter of Jean Le Hocq, or Le Houcq. This marriage became a famous event. The High Church party in Canterbury wished the descendants of the refugees to consider themselves English people, and to discontinue resorting to French pasteurs for the solemnization of their marriages. ”

“ If but gleanings do yield so much good, how much more benefit wou’d the whole have produc’d! I desire to be very thankful to God for what there is of it, and that I had an able friend and good hand in the ministry of the Gospel to digest it in order which otherways wou’d never have seen the light. ”