David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ His Will, dated 10th March, and translated out of French by Philip Crespigny, N.P., was proved on 17th November by his son, Captain James Philip Moreau, and Paul Dufour, Esq. His son was his heir, and at the date of the making of the Will, had a wife, as to whom it was stipulated that if she became a widow she was to receive an annuity of £50. The testator’s daughter, Louisa Elizabeth, Mrs. Hubert, was apparently a widow, having a son, Michael, who was already well provided for by the Will of her late father-in-law, Michael Hubert. ”

“ Martin Orgars, to be invested for the support of the ministers, and £200 for the poor French refugee members of that church; £2000 to the Hospital erected for poor French Protestant Refugees, to be invested for its maintenance; £50 to the poor of the parish of St. Gregory: £50 to the Charity School of Richmond, in Surrey; £200 to the poor of the French Church in Threadneedle Street; £20 to John Brugneirolle; £100 to Mr Peter Dugua; £100 to Mrs. Susanne Passavant; £500 to Mr. Alexander de la Gorce; £200 to Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John Anthony Merle, and £200 to his daughter Elizabeth ”

“ This custom has been neglected fifteen years, and we cannot guess why it is revived.”
2. “A London merchant, Mr. Banal, a good refugee,” was once in 1713 in the French café near the Exchange, when he heard an officer of the French embassy insulting the Protestant refugees, saying that they ought to be hanged. The French Papists had great hopes from the Harley-Bolingbroke ministry, as secret sympathizers with Louis XIV. in his quarrel with the Huguenots, and the French Ambassador’s household were in the habit of speaking in this insolent style ”

“ He left £100 to the poor of the French Church in Threadneedle Street to be distributed by the elders and deacons, and £20 to be distributed to the poor Protestant Refugees of the Society of the Children of Nismes, erected in London. ”

“ Seignoret, a merchant of London, paid in £2000 on the fund act on the life of the Duke of Burgundy, eldest son of the Dauphin of France.” In 1698 Luttrell alarms us by tidings of a State Trial impending over seven French merchants who had pleaded not guilty, and were to be arraigned at the tremendous bar of the House of Lords. But on looking back we come to the less painful information — “19th May 1698. — Seven French merchants were impeached before the House of Lords for trading to France.” In those days all leading Englishmen were monopolists, and furious ones ”

“ Mr. Seignoret’s brother (Christian name not known) , perhaps, had been a refugee in Switzerland, but was deceased in or before 1718, and was in that year represented by a son (Mr. S.’s nephew) , Pierre, or Peter Seignoret of Greenwich, who married, first, Sara Marie Couvreu (sister-in-law of Henri Gaultier) , and secondly, Marguerite Allix (see the pedigree of Seignoret, Ravaud, &c, by Henry Wagner, F.S.A.) .
*⁎* The Will of Mrs. Elizabeth Seignoret, alias Got, “translated out of French by Ph. Crespigny,” was proved by the two executors (each of whom received £500) , Peter Seignoret, Esq. ”

“ Stephen Guyon, £500; to Mr. Peter Le Maistre, £500; to Mr. Caesar Le Maistre, £500; to Captain Amand Lalloue Duperron, £500; to his cousin, Abraham Guichery, living at Loudun, in France, £500; to his cousin, Martha Dupin, £500; to his cousin, Mary Anne Dupin, of Loudun, £500; to Paul Aubrey, the younger, of Loudun, £100; to Renauchon Aubrey, £100; to his cousin, the widow Des Illes Morteault, of London, £500; to the two daughters of the late Mr. Malherbe, who died at the French Hospital in London, living at Spitalfields, £200 ”

“ Paul Durand (perhaps Paul Darande) was a merchant of good reputation. His conduct greatly impressed Mr. Anthony Lefroy in his youthful days. In 1770 Mr. Lefroy discovered that he had lost £30,000, and anticipated that he might be judged as deficient in sagacity. “But (he writes) I thank God not any person can with reason call in question my sentiments of honour and honesty, who have always in view the example of one Mr. ”