David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ All his Episcopal friends, except Tillotson, forsook him — so that Du Veil characterised “Henry Compton, Lord Bishop of London,” as “formerly my greatest and most liberal benefactor.” This is in his commentary on the Acts — where are also the following allusions to English cotemporaries — Dr William Lloyd, Bishop of St Asaph’s, “a man of excellent parts, great erudition, singular piety and benignity, to whom I do (and shall all my lifetime) acknowledge myself extremely bound.” ”

“ His new convictions are ascribed partly to the influence of the celebrated Bishop Bossuet, and, at any rate, it was to the Roman Catholic Church that Du Veil united himself. At his baptism he received the names Charles Marie. He became a canon-regular of Sainte Geneviève, and was a popular preacher. The degree of D.D. he received at Angers in the year 1674. He was also Professor of Divinity in the University of Anjou. He published a commentary on the first two Gospels, in which he took occasion to defend Romish dogmas and superstitions. ”

“ Also, “that man of a most solid judgment, and in defending the principles of the orthodox faith against Popery and irreligion, short of none, the most religious and most learned Gilbert Burnet, D.D., to whose large charity to the poor and strangers I profess myself greatly indebted.” ”