David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ But upon reflection they, and especially the ladies, shrank from the difficulties of the moment. So the dragoons, under the command of the Marquis de Baupre-Choiseul, beat up their quarters in detail, and all the principal gentry had to sign a recantation. Dumont’s wife’s mother died of humiliation and grief, and others of the Grosmenil family fled to Holland.
For a time the public authorities seemed satisfied with Dumont de Bostaquet and his family and neighbours as new converts nominally; but a demand for their regular observance of the Roman Missal and Ritual loomed in the distance. ”

“ On the arrival of the fleet at Torbay, “the disembarkation was effected with great skill and promptitude,” says the Edinburgh Reviewer, from whom we borrow a translation of De Bostaquet’s account of the arrival of the fleet:—
“We distinctly saw many people gathering upon the hills to watch our coming and enjoy the spectacle. They did not appear alarmed in the least, when the men of war and the entire army made their way into a bay in the vicinity. The place was called Torbay, and here we landed. It seemed as if nature had made it for our reception. ”

“ In the autumn, Lord Galway preparing to serve in the descent upon France under the Duke of Leinster, De Bostaquet volunteered to accompany him, and could hardly be dissuaded, expecting that the expedition would accomplish something great. Lord Galway assured him that nothing would come of it, and urged him to take his family to Ireland before the coming winter. This advice was taken; and again our refugees were in motion, leaving London on the 12th August 1692, and proceeding (via Coventry) to Chester. On the coast of Cheshire they found the wind against them ”

“ In Bray Street in that capital they still were at the date of the conclusion of De Bostaquet’s manuscript, 3d April 1693, Lord Galway having arrived to command the forces, and to superintend the Protestant colonisation.
Our refugee family’s final resting-place was Portarlington. There the veteran captain obtained a lease of ground, built his house and garden-wall, brought up his younger children, served as an elder in the French Church, and enjoyed his pension of 6s. 1d. per diem, [4] till his death in 1709, at the age of seventy-seven. ”

“ In the following spring she herself, and the other surviving children, put off to sea at the same port, through the address and courage of Captain Laveine, and landed at Rotterdam, where Dumont met them. They arrived as a refugee family at the Hague on 22d March 1688.
The expedition of the Prince of Orange into England soon interrupted this domestic life. De Bostaquet joined it as a cavalry officer. The Huguenot cavalry were provisionally enrolled in two Regiments of Dragoons, les bleus (Col. Petit) , and les rouges (Col. Louvigny) . ”

“ The refugee’s surviving children were two daughters: (1.) Judith Julie was married to Auguste de la Blachière, seigneur de la Coutière; their son Isaac Philip de Coutières was born 19th Sept. 1701, and in 1735 he was a captain in the 24th Regiment (Wentworth’s) . She was left a widow, and re-married with Monsieur De Bonneval, the pastcur of Portarlington, when she was left a widow for the second time. The will of Judith Julia Dumont de Bonneval of Portarlington, widow, was dated 6th July, and proved 4th Oct. 1758. She mentions a daughter by her first husband, Susanna Courtiers [Coutières ?] ”

“ By command of the Prince of Orange he was enrolled in the Dutch army as a captain of cavalry, the rank to which he had attained in the French service. France, by its laws, proscribed and cast him off on the 14th of August. A legal narrative of his flight and its attendant consequences, which has been preserved among the De Bostaquet Papers, may be here quoted:— “En 1687 il fut poursuivi criminellement, soupconne d’avoir voulu favoriser la sortie du royaume de quelques particuliers, et entre autres de . . . ”

“ Bostaquet, retired on a pension of 5s. a day, which pension he has resolved to exchange for an ensign’s half-pay for his son, who, having been born at Greenwich, may aspire to a commission in the line in due time. ”