David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Can we — whose sins and provocations have been, and still continue to be, so great — flatter ourselves with dreams of perpetual tranquility? The wise man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the fool goeth on and is punished. ”

“ The nations also by warlike concussions have been put into a bloody sweat and the clouds are returning after the rain; a blacker tempest of desolating war gathers and thickens over this part of the world. ”

“ This world may well be called a vale of tears, where exercises and afflictions are connected as if the removal of one were to make room for another, and private troubles are swallow’d up in publick dangers. ”

“ John Delmé was baptized in Canterbury on 27th January 1733 (n.s.) . He became a merchant in London, and married in the French Church, Threadneedle Street, on 30th October 1664, Deborah Leadbetter. Their only child Elizabeth was baptized in the same church on 3d January 1673. She was married about 1692 to Gerard Van Heythuyssen, junior, a member of the Dutch Church of London, and four of her children are registered in that church. ”

“ As my chief concern is for the souls of yourself and all yours, so my most sincere advice and earnest entreaty that you would lay out yourselves to the utmost, and use your authority over children and servants for God. ”

“ Item, I give to my son, John, £300 sterling, to be paid unto him at the age of one and twenty years, but if he come to die before the said age, I ordain in such case that his brothers, Elias and Peter, and his sisters, Elizabeth and Jane surviving — or in case of their decease, their children or child, if they leave any — shall inherit the portion of £300 sterling, of their said brother or uncle John, deceased, by equal parts, the children or child left after the decease of their father and mother representing their father and mother deceased. ”

“ I have no children to bequeath these blessings to; let them descend upon all the faithful children of Abraham, and diffuse themselves the more for not being confined to a single line, till after many descents they shall come at last to meet themselves at the great day of jubilee. ”

“ I will close this chapter with a brief notice of a layman eminent both for piety and for success in life, the son of a refugee from Flanders. The refugee was Pierre Houblon, merchant-stranger, as to whom, see my Chapter IX. His eminent descendant was his son Jacques, known as James Houblon, Esq., merchant of London, and father of the Royal Exchange, who was born in 1592, and baptized in the City of London French Church, Threadncedle Street, where, on November 1620, he married Marie Du Quesne, “a woman of a meek and humble spirit,” by whom he had ten sons and two daughters, all nursed by her. ”

“ Then we may be sure that God will let out no more of our enemies’fiery indignation against us than he himself sees fit, and will sanctifie to exercise and refine our graces, and thereby also they will sooner become ripe and kindle the consuming flames of Divine wrath against themselves. ”

“ Joanna (wife of Abraham Clarke) , Lady of the Manor of Flaxley Abbey, whose son Abraham Clarke inherited the estate, and dying in 1684 left it to William, only son of the above-named James Boevey, by Isabel, daughter of William de Visscher. William Boevey of Flaxley Abbey married in August 1685 Katherine, daughter of John Riches of St. Laurence Pountney, London, merchant, and left her a young and childless widow on 26th August 1692; she is supposed to be the perverse widow who is such a fascinating figure in the Sir Roger De Coverley papers, and who has a monument in Westminster Abbey. ”

“ The heading of the first page of the imprint (already mentioned) is, “The method or skill of good preaching, being the advice of a French minister to his son when he was entering on the ministry, translated out of the French by a near relation — the father and son were preachers of the Word in the French and Walloon Reformed Churches, and both are long since dead” (1701) .
The father’s widow, Mrs Delmé, made her will in 1665, and the young pasteur had died before that date. She had joined her son, Peter, in London. ”

“ The authentic pedigree in the “Visitation” of Middlesex, begins with David Bonnell of the city of London, gentleman, and his wife Katherine, daughter of Best, of London, gentleman; the five sons of this couple are recorded, namely, David, Jacob, Jeremy, Nathaniel, and Simeon, all alive in 1663, and a daughter Sarah, wife of Thomas Ratcliffe. We obtain more light by consulting the register of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, London. It appears that his wife’s maiden surname was De Beste, and that she was a native of Antwerp, and that from love to her he deserted the Walloon or French Church ”

“ As to the pasteur, we at last obtain an authentic date, namely, the day of his marriage in the French Church of Canterbury, 29th December 1616. He is entered in the register as Philippe Delme, native of Norwich, and minister at Norwich, son of the late Adrien. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Elias Maurois, of Canterbury. This marriage brought him into affinity with many good French families in that metropolitan centre — the Maurois, the Desbouveries, the Du Quesnes, &c. His eldest son was Elie, or Elias, but he is not registered at Norwich. ”

“ All these children were born before 1595, or before June of that year, when the only extant register of the Norwich French Church begins. (Elisabeth, daughter of Adrien “de le Met,” was baptized in 1596; [5] and, if a child of our Adrien, she must have died in childhood.)
The son Philippe became an eminent man. He must have been born about 1590. He had made up his mind to be a pasteur in 1603, for his father, while bequeathing clothes and furniture to his brothers, left to him his great Bible, Bullinger’s Decades, and Calvin’s Institutes. ”

“ He died 23d January 1712 (new style) , and his will was proved by Peter Delmé and John Gunston on the 13th February following. It was dated 4th December 1707. He styles himself, “John Delmé, of London, merchant,” and says,
“First and principally I bestow my soul into the hands of the one eternall and ever blessed Lord God, one in essence, three in persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, my Creator, my Redeemer and Sanctifyer, trusting alone in free grace and the precious meritts of Jesus Christ for everlasting salvation. ”

“ His son Daniel Bonnell, merchant in London, left a son Samuel, who married Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Sayer, Esq., a residenter in the neighbourhood of Norwich, and who spent the prime of his life in Genoa and Leghorn. The Rev. John Strype, the famous ecclesiastical antiquary and annalist (born in 1643) , was a nephew of Samuel Bonnell, Esq., and an associate of his distinguished son, James. James Bonnell was born at Genoa in 1653, and was brought by his parents to England in 1655. ”

“ He is entered in the List of 1618, as an inhabitant of Broad Street, “John Lamot, born in Colchester, useing merchandizeing, free of the company of Weavers in London.” His parish was the parish of St. Bartholomew the Little, near the Royal Exchange. He served the public in various offices, and rose to be an alderman. His first wife was Ann Tivelin, widow of David King, and a daughter of refugee parents settled at Canterbury; he had two sons and eight daughters, but Hester and Elizabeth were the only children who grew up. His wife died in January 1626 (new style) ”

“ Her three children by her first husband died young, and of the seven children by her second husband there survived Elizabeth, Thomas, and John-Lamotte Honeywood. The other daughter Elizabeth was married on 19th July 1632 to Maurice Abbott, daughter of Sir Maurice, and niece of Archbishop Abbott; her married life was brief; she left a son, Maurice. John Lamotte, Esq., died on 13th July 1655, aged 78, and his will, dated May 23d, was proved on 8th August by Mr James Houblon of London, merchant, and by the testator’s grandson, Maurice Abbott. ”

“ Mr Crawley Boevey died in 1742, and his successor was a second Thomas Crawley Boevey, Esq. (born 1709, died 1769) , whose son and namesake (born 1745) having married Ann Savage, eventually the nearest relative of Sir Charles Barrow, Bart., M.P., became, in 1789, through a special remainder in that patent of baronetcy, Sir Thomas Crawley Boevey, Bart. Sir Thomas Hyde Crawley Boevey, the present and fifth baronet, is great-grandson to the first Sir Thomas.
The surname of Boevey, which has thus survived through so many generations, is also a Protestant refugee name. ”