David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Dr. Majendie was Queen Charlotte’s instructor in the English language, and tutor to her sons, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. He was deeply and actively interested in the Waldenses, [3] he died at Weston, near Bath, 7th August 1783, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, and fifty-fifth of his ministry. He married, in 1753, Elizabeth Prevost, and his sons were Henry-William and Lewis (afterwards of Hedingham Castle) . Henry-William Majendie, D.D., was born 7th October 1754, was tutor to Prince William Henry, afterwards Duke of Clarence and King William IV. ”

“ According to him, the Vaudois, or Waldenses, are the representatives of “those worthy confessors” who gradually separated themselves from the Church of Rome as its corruptions increased, till they abandoned it entirely about the beginning of the ninth century. ”

“ Jacques de Majendie, his next brother (bom 4th December 1637) , married Charlotte de Saint-Leger, and left two sons, [1] one of whom became a British subject in 1700, coming to us from Leeuwarden. This was Rev. Andréw Majendie, pasteur at Exeter for forty years; he had been educated at Amsterdam; his congregation continued to meet in St. Olave’s Church, Exeter; he also taught French and mathematics, and lectured on the reasonableness of Protestantism and the errors of Popery; he died in 1740. At Exeter, in 1702, he married Suzanne, daughter of Rev. ”