David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Mr. Prior wrote to Lord Bolingbroke that the king of France desired that young Du Bourdieu might be punished. Bolingbroke communicated with the Queen, who answered to the effect, that “that was none of her business, but the Bishop of London’s.” The French Ambassador, Le Duc d’Aumont presented a written memorial to Her Majesty, who formally referred it to the Bishop. On the 17th May 1713 the pastor received a summons, which he cheerfully obeyed, the French Savoy Church being under the jurisdiction of the metropolitan Bishop ”

“ The family in the Patent-Roll of Naturalizations (see List x.) seems not to have been a clergyman’s household, nor was the John-Armand in it the junior Savoy pastor, unless two brothers (his father and his uncle) had the same name, John. The Ulster Journal of Archaeology informs us that our junior pasteur was the son of Jacques De Brius, Seigneur (or Sieur) Du Bourdieu, who died before the Revocation. His widow and the boy became refugees in London, she was of the family of De la Valade. ”

“ The party effected their escape through the frontier guards into German Switzerland. If we have correctly affiliated him, the young pasteur of the Savoy cannot have the date of his birth fixed later than 1680. Under the superintendence of his aged grandfather, and afterwards of his uncle, his school and college education was thoroughly English and with a view to the Anglican Church. This accounts for his lack of reverence for Louis XIV., of whom the older refugees spoke with melancholy awe and romantic regard. ”

“ It is a matter of importance to inflict an exemplary punishment on those who have abused the ministry of the pulpit, to disperse their malice, bitterness, and animosity against the King. Whereas nobody has expressed himself with more rage and scandal than Mr. ”

“ He was minister of the French Church of Lisburn for forty-five years.
↑ The Ulster Journal quotes the title-page of a Sermon which gives him another ducal patron; the discourse is called “L’Indigne Choix des Sichemites;” ”