David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ When the dragoons were molesting and torturing her husband, she continued in charge of his house, in spite of foul language constantly addressed to her, to watch opportunities for succouring him; but on his enforced farewell to Orange, she by his advice fled to her father’s house, where she hid herself. She was dragged from her hiding-place, and ordered to wait upon the dragoons in De Chambrun’s house. A friendly monk sent a messenger, who told De Tessé that she had done her duty. ”

“ Four Protestant ministers were thrown into prison. As for De Chambrun, he had for some time been confined to bed; to his chronic malady, gout, there had been added the pain arising from a fracture of the left thigh, and from a severe strain upon the sinews of the leg, so that, from want of sleep, he was in a state of pitiable debility and emaciation. He was, therefore, put under arrest, two dragoons keeping guard — one at his bedside, and the other at the street door. ”

“ De Chambrun replied, that his Majesty could have no such high thoughts about a poor minister, but that he would so far identify himself with the Protestant ministers of France, as to ask, that like them, he might have a passport to retire into Holland. De Tessé answered that it would be politically dangerous to send him to be a councillor of the Prince of Orange. ”

“ In reply to his letter, reporting himself safe in Geneva, De Chambrun received a passport and a seasonable remittance of money from the Prince of Orange, and the refugee couple arrived at the Hague on the 28th March 1687. He was made the Prince’s domestic chaplain; and after the Revolution in England, on the invitation of their Majesties, they settled in their kingdom in 1689. He was at once made a Canon of Windsor, Queen Mary graciously saying as to the appointment, “It is only till a better preferment shall offer.” ”

“ He lodged his prisoner in a private house, where he was attended by the companions of his journey, John Convenent, his nephew, and two valets, and latterly by his noble wife, who before the expiry of twenty days had been allowed to join him. ”