David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The French pasteur was to regard himself, and each of his predecessors in the pastorate, not as a minister of Christ, but as a “teacher” set up contrary to the Apostolical injunction (implied in 2 Timothy iv. 3, which text the bishop supposed to be a prophecy that the Portarlington refugees would “after their own lusts heap to themselves teachers”) — so that Divine Service could never be duly celebrated by him or by any similar outcast from Apostolicity.
As to the French congregation we are told that, soon after, it “acceded to the wishes of the Bishop.” ”

“ The thoughts of Daillon, in the course of a very few years, were turned to Ireland. The Nicolas family, to which Madame de Daillon belonged, were high in Lord Galway’s favourable estimation. Daillon himself was an able and learned man; and Luttrell’s “Historical Relation” points to him (spelling the name, Dallions) as designed by the noble chief of the refugees to be the head of a Protestant College at Kilkenny. Lord Galway, as already stated, built and endowed both an English and a French Church at Portarlington — the latter was opened in 1694 according to the Charenton model. ”

“ Benjamin de Daillon, John Louis Malide, Samuel Mettayer, Simon Canole, Henry Gervais, Timothy Baignoux, Charles Peter Souchet, William Bardon, John Forent, and Barthelemy Balaguier, and their successors, ministers of the French congregation of Protestant strangers, were formed into a corporation with permanent succession and liberty to exercise the functions of the ministry according to their manner accustomed, with power to purchase land, to build churches, and, in case of death or removal of any of the ministers, to choose other persons to succeed in the office of ministers. ”