David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Though I congratulate the most illustrious Duke, your brother, and your excellent niece, a lady whose example is worthy of everlasting remembrance — to both of whom it was given, even in death itself, to commit their triumphant souls into the hands and faithful keeping of God — yet in the midst of so many most distressing tidings it afforded me no common comfort to hear that you have been snatched from the very jaws of death, and are still preserved to us in safety. ”

“ Which if your Majesty shall regard, our Lord Jesus Christ (who declares that which is done to strangers to be received by Himself) will not only guide you in this life and take up His dwelling with you, but when you shall depart this life will bring you into His eternal mansions, and instead of a temporal kingdom will give you one that is everlasting. — The servant of your serene Majesty,
T. Cant.”⁠
During the brief remainder of Edward’s reign, Le Chevalier continued to read Hebrew with his pupils in Cambridge. But the accession of Queen Mary drove him out of England. ”

“ Incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem,’
yet since Mr Ralph Chevalier, a Frenchman, [1] has entreated that I would open for him a means of access to your favour through my recommendation, I could not deny the excellent young man this obligation, both inasmuch as he was formerly recommended by Master Bucer, a man of pious memory, and that his remarkable modesty and learning, which have been known and tried through my private intimacy with him, also deserve it. For he lived in my house a whole year or more, where he exhibited very many proofs of his eminent piety and his surpassing ability. ”