David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ As a paslor his home was La Rochelle; he was one of the six ministers who constituted the staff of the Reformed Pastorate of that city. In Quick’s Synodicon we find him in the Roll of Ministers for the year 1603, a member of the National Synod in 1614, and surviving in the Roll of Ministers for 1626. The son of Hierosme and the father of the refugee was Jean Colomiés, doctor of medicine; the pasteur’s daughters were Francoise, wife of Pierre Hamelot, doctor of medicine (the date of whose marriage was 1628) , and Sara, wife of Jehan Hamelot, merchant in La Rochelle, a brother of Pierre. ”

“ Among the French Protestants, the Reader reads ten or twelve, sometimes with a little vexation. In the ancient, the Reader did not begin to read until the clergy and people had come in, as we may conjecture from the celebrated passage of Justin Martyr. ”

“ Thus the refugee had two Hamelot uncles and many Hamelot cousins, the Hamelots being illustrious Rochellers.
Paul Colomiés was born in La Rochelle on 2nd December 1638. He was educated for the ministry, and qualified for a charge in the Reformed Church of France. We do not hear of his having a pastoral charge. As a refugee, he preferred to settle in England, because his friend Isaac Vossius was there. ”