David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Now, Christianity is emphatically a manly religion; quit you like men, be strong, is the apostolic exhortation. The idea of bravery underlies that principle of endurance which is habitually urged upon us in the New Testament. ”

“ Hardly, wife of Daniel Hardly; Jacob and Susan were twenty and eighteen respectively. His surviving sons, therefore, were Daniel, Philip, and Jacob. His “nephew,” Jacob Ris, was probably a nephew of his third wife; he and John Bayley were the executors. The testator’s son, Daniel, was a married man, and had in 1705 two children, Susan and Daniel; so was his son, Philip, with one child named Martha. The charitable bequests were “unto the poore people belonging unto the Erench congregation at Thorney,” and 40s. “unto the poore people of Whittlesey.” ”

“ But in 1652 it united with the French Church of Thorney Abbey, about four miles distant, and also situated in the Isle of Ely and county of Cambridge. Among the settlers was Philippe de Bailleu, who is so named in the baptismal register for twenty years, numely, from 1659 to 1679; he became Bailleu in 1681 , and so continues till 1692. Ultimately he adopted the surname of Bayley, and in his will, dated 30th July 1705, and proved 18th December 1706, he calls himself Philip Bayley the elder, of Whittlesey, in the Isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge, yeoman. ”