David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ The name occurs in connection with James Auriol, merchant, who removed from London to Lisbon to join the mercantile house of Pratviel. In reprinting the following note, I leave the date of 1755 as I find it, as it may allude to another David:— The Pratviels were French Protestant exiles, said to have taken refuge on an island in the Mediterranean, but residing in Lisbon in 1727, the first year of the publication of the Factory Register. David Pratviel in his Will, dated at Lisbon in 1742, and proved in London in 1759, names as his executor, “my cousin and partner Mr. ”
