David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Jean Mussard, goldsmith, took refuge in Geneva, flying out of France at or before 1579. By Anne Le Grand, his wife, whom he had married in 1574, he had five sons. The second, named Jean Mussard, married Clermonde Crespe in 1609, and had two daughters and three sons, of which sons both the eldest and the youngest bore the name of Pierre; the latter, who was born in 1627, was styled le cadet (the younger) . This was the learned, eloquent, and orthodox Pasteur Pierre Mussard. ”

“ Returning from great-grandsons to the old pasteur, we chronicle his second marriage to Marguerite Chouet, probably a near relative to Chouet, the librarian of Geneva, at whose request Mussard’s Latin treatise was composed. The offspring of this marriage were Anne and Theophilus Mussard; the latter died without issue in 1747. The exact date of the death of the pasteur himself is not known, but it was before 1692, the year of the publication of Quick’s Synodicon, for the last page of that work records his death in the service of the French Church of London, or before 1686, according to Haag. ”

“ The translation of 1745 is anonymous, and entitled, “The Conformity between Modern and Ancient Ceremonies, wherein is proved by incontestible authorities that the Ceremonies of the Church of Rome are entirely derived from the heathen. With an appendix shewing the conformity of their conduct toward their adversaries.”
*⁎* “Philip Musard, son of John, born at Geneva,” was naturalised in England by Act of Parliament in 1677. Mary, daughter of Mr Philip Musard, jeweller to our Queen Anne, was married in 1706 to Christopher, eldest son of Sir Christopher Wren, Architect of St. ”