David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Philippe Jouneau was descended from a very good family in the Isle of Rhé, near La Rochelle. He came over to England in 1685 a refugee from the persecution, and was in 1693 appointed minister of the Eglise de Hungerford, in Hungerford Market, London, and afterwards officiated in the French Churches of Berwick Street, Soho, and St Martin Orgars. ”

“ At proper periods of the discourse the minister stops short, and turns his back upon you, in order to blow his nose, which is a signal for all the congregation to do the same; and a glorious concert it is, for the weather is already severe, and people have got colds. I am told, too, that he takes this time to refresh his memory by peeping at his sermon, which lies behind him in the pulpit.”
With regard to the Protestant congregation at Marseilles:
“The minister is an agreeable and literary man; his wife has been six years in England, and speaks English well. ”

“ Mary’s, united in a congregation which assembled within St. Patrick’s Cathedral; they considered themselves conformists, and therefore churchmen; and ludicrously called their own countrymen, who were true to the French forms of worship, dissenters and enemies. ”

“ Charlotte Susanne, daughter of the deceased Pasteur Laurent Drelincourt, eldest brother of the Dean of Armagh, was married in the London French Church in the Savoy, in 1690, to John Barbot, author of Voyages to Guinea, in Churchill’s collection ”

“ This nobleman, who was the patron of Bishop Chenevix, employed another minister of Berwick Street French Church, Samuel Coderc, to be his son’s tutor, Michael Maittaire being his Latin master. Rev. Samuel Coderc married Francis Mary, daughter of Colonel Savary, on 21st December 1729, in the Castle Street French Church, to which the Berwick Street congregation had been united.
12. Rev. John Cherpentier ministered to a conformist congregation in Canterbury from 1710 to 1716 in opposition to the recognised refugee congregation in the Undercroft of the Cathedral. ”

“ John’s College, Oxford, and became M.A. by diploma dated 7th April 1701 — then proceeded to B.D. on 25th April 1708, and to D.D. on 23rd April 1714. He is said to have been an extraordinary linguist. He died on 31st December 1746, having just completed his able and concise “History of Persecutions.” In this book, which is still celebrated, he betrays his noble birth by dwelling upon the sufferings of the Protestants of France.
22. The Rev. Stephen Abel Laval was in 1737 pasteur of the united chapels of Castle Street and Berwick Street in London. ”

“ Perhaps Denys Pérès was the refugee professor’s son; his child Olivier, named after Olivier Migault, was baptised on 22nd April 1705.
8. César Pégorier, a theological student at Geneva in 1666, was a native of Roujan in Languedoc. He became pasteur of Senitot in Normandy. Through the pressure of persecution he left his charge and came to England, with a certificate of honour from the Synod of Quevilly. He was the minister of the French churches, styled the Artillery and the Tabernacle in London, and was the author of three publications: — (1.) ”

“ John Pujolas died in London before 1762, and was the father of Henry Pujolas, Esq., Richmond Herald, who died in 1764, aged thirty-one. Benjamin Pujolas, surveyor to the Westminster Insurance Office, died in 1776. ”