David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ And in case my daughter Elizabeth or any of her children shall not come out of France within ten years after my death, I give and bequeath to Armand Dubourdieu, my son, the annuity of 1704 of £14 per annum upon the 3700 excise, and all the income grown due thereon till that time. I give and bequeath to my grandson, John Dubourdieu, son of Armand, all my books and all my papers, which shall not be delivered him till he shall be a minister, and in case he should embrace another profession, I give them to the first of my grandsons who shall be a minister. ”

“ Our help be in the name of God who made heaven and earth. Amen. John Dubourdieu, minister, living in the parish of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, doth above all things recommend his soul to God, and desires that his body be buried near that of his father in the Chapel of the Savoy. He gives £20 sterling to the poor of the said Church, and £20 sterling to the six oldest French ministers who are assisted or are upon the list of the Royal Bounty. I give to my eldest son Peter Dubourdieu, Rector of Kirby-over-Carr in Yorkshire, the annuity of £14 per annum of the year 1706, No. ”

“ Nichols relates of him that “being quick to discern and willing to encourage merit,” he sent to school a clever boy, John Clarke (son of a mechanic in his parish) , who became M.A. and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and was successively master of the schools of Shipton, Beverley, and Wakefield. ”