David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Huguenot refugees arrived at Exeter in great numbers. The Bishop of Exeter (Lamplugh) sent for their principal man and asked if a clergyman had come with them. He replied in the negative; but having heard of M. Sanxay, and being informed as to his place of residence in Cornwall, he mentioned him to the Bishop. The refugee pasteur accordingly received a letter from the Episcopal palace, exhorting him to come to Exeter and feed a Huguenot flock that was without a shepherd ”

“ These surviving children are said to have been all born in England, the refugee children having died at very early ages. James Sanxay, on mentioning the refugee pasteur’s death, said, “I was then between three and four years old, so that I cannot remember him.” ”

“ He returned to France, and went to the Protestant College of Saumur. There he finished his humanities under the famous Professor Tanneguy Le Fevre, and finally took his Degree of Master of Arts, the diploma of which is an heirloom. On the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he was ordered by the authorities to shut up his church and to desist from preaching. On the apostolic plea that we ought to obey God rather than men, he continued to preach in his church at St. ”