David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ In 1637 his daughter Esther was married to Sir John Falconer, and this son-in-law was conjoined with Nicholas Briot in his office. Briot, however, returned to England on the outbreak of the civil war; he secured for the king’s service all the coining apparatus of the nation, and finally is said to have died of grief on his royal patron’s death. Sir John Falconer was of the Halkerstoun family, and ancestor of the Falconers of Phesdo. Mr Smiles enumerates several fine medals executed by Briot, who “possessed the genius of a true artist.” ”
