David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ His eldest son was Gedeon de Laune, anglice Gideon Delaune, who was brought over to England by his refugee parents. Although he did not aspire to be a medical practitioner, yet he is the only son who still has some fame, being remembered as apothecary to King James I. He is entered as such in 1618 in the Government List of Strangers. His bust now stands in the Apothecaries’ Hall, London. He acquired the property of Sharsted, in Kent, which (as it is not referred to in his will) he must have made over in his own lifetime to his eldest son Abraham. ”

“ After the Revolution of 1688, the Non-jurors, having expected him to adhere to their party, bore him a grudge, which found vent after his death in a satirical Latin epitaph, describing him as tenuis in body but tumens in spirit. ”

“ Although he had nine children, yet his line became extinct in the third generation. I have information only as to the eldest son Abraham, of Sharsted; he married Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Sondes, of Throwley, Kent. The eldest son of this couple became Sir William Delaune; he was a merchant of London, knighted at Whitehall on 10th January 1664 (n.s.) , who had married, first, Anne, daughter and heir of Captain Thomas Heywood, of Gillingham, and secondly (in 1662) , Dorcas, daughter of Sir Robert Barkham, of Weynflete, Lincolnshire. ”