David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ St Michel struck the friar, and lost his appointment. Nevertheless, he married a daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill, the widow of an Irish esquire, and settled at Bideford in Devonshire, where he had children, of whom a son and a daughter are identified. St Michel was persuaded to return to France and to take a house in Paris for himself and his family. He served in the French army; and once on returning home, he was distracted to find that his wife and two children had been inveigled into the convent of the Ursulines. ”

“ Being aged of 70 years, I being sickly and not able to serve any longer, and having about a thousand volumes of books I had collected in my younger dayes, with a considerable collection of prints, medals, curiosities, I took a little shop and exposed my said goods to sale ”

“ Perhaps he had been promoted to the rank of Post-Captain in 1702, as on that year a successor took his post of Commissioner. [1]
*⁎* Mr Pepys had in his service a native of Pluviers (or Pithiviers) , the capital of Le Gatinois. The man’s name was James Paris Du Plessis, and he was the author of a manuscript (British Museum, No. 5426) , entitled, “A short history of human, prodigious, and monstrous births,” for which Sir Hans Sloan, in 1733, gave him a guinea. ”