David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ A guard of soldiers were unable to suppress such exclamations as, ‘There goes a man of God,’ — ‘he is on his car of triumph,’ — ‘his body is in the hands of the executioner, but his soul is with God,’ — ‘his body is disfigured with dirt, but his soul is washed in the blood of Christ.’ His friends fetched his corpse from the dunghill; they wrapped it in linen, and prepared a grave in a garden ”

“ Chenevix was immediately translated to Waterford and Lismore, viz., on 15th January 1746. The Bishop was acquainted with the obligations of Ireland to the linen manufacture, and the Viceroy had observed the industrial advantages accruing to Holland from the Huguenot refugees; and consequently a revival of commercial prosperity marked the era now under our observation. The linen and sail-cloth manufactures had subsisted since 1715, when Lewis Crommelin set them up, under the management of John Latrobe. ”

“ Philip Chenevix (his son) , Chancellor of Waterford Cathedral; Henry Gervais, Treasurer of Lismore; Antoine Fleury, Vicar-Choral. Bishop Chenevix “went about doing good,” and was “a man of great singleness of heart;” he died in 1779. In his Will, dated 13th August 1777, he left to the diocese of Waterford £1600, the interest to be given to widows of clergymen of that diocese ”