David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ It is possible that the bridegroom may have been induced to pay a visit to his wife’s uncle, and thus the French Church of Norwich became acquainted with him. Certainly, on account of the feeling that Dr Delaune, as a beneficed clergyman, ought to go and reside at his benefice, the congregation elected D’Assigny; and a formal induction must have taken place, because the signature, “Piere d’Assigny, Ministre,” survives in the old book of discipline. ”

“ The date of a final settlement was 1613 (according to Blomefield’s “History of Norfolk,” vol. ii. page 256) , and was to the effect that, “According to their first patent the strangers should not be assessed by the court to the [English parochial ] ministers’ wages in their parishes for anything but their houses and grounds, the payment for their values and stock being left to their own congregations, — they being to be governed by the bishop as to spirituals, by the city as to temporals, and their own church by their elders and deacons.” ”