David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ It was then that the Jesuits produced the written abjuration signed by him, and demanded that he should forthwith profess publicly the Roman Catholic creed. On his refusal he was arrested as a relapsed Catholic, and placed at the bar of the parliament of Toulouse. ”

“ This refugee divine, the knowledge of whom as of so many other refugees I owe to the Messieurs Haag, was a member of a Montauban Protestant family which still exists in that academic town. Jaques Debia was born at Montauban on 10th March 1652, son of Jean Debia, merchant, and Marguerite Pelleport. The story of his banishment from France is curious, and a characteristic specimen of Romish trickery. The Protestant Academy of Montauban having been suppressed, this youth was sent for education in the classics as a day-scholar in the Jesuits’ College. ”