David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ But having received intelligence of the motions made here on the subject of your Highness’s pretensions, his Majesty thought it his interest to declare expressly, by his ministers at the Court of France, his right to that sovereignty, hoping that his Most Christian Majesty would observe an exact impartiality in this affair, that he might leave the States, who are the true judges of it, to their full liberty, when they shall be called on that account after the Duchess of Nemours’ death. ”

“ As to his private life, he was married in Switzerland to a lady with a good fortune, named Jedide Azube de Graffenried, by whom he had five children. In his latter years Southampton, where so many refugees resided and worshipped in the venerable Maison-Dieu, became his residence. On the death of the Earl of Galway, in 1720, he became Governor of the French Hospital of London. The death of his son, Frederick, seems to have affected him much ”

“ His son was Philibert Hervart, born in 1645, and styled Baron de Huningue by French writers, but Baron of Huningen in some English law-papers; [1] in common conversation, Monsieur De Hervart or Baron Hervart. He inherited the respect and regard of all the Protestants of France. At the period of the Revocation he was in the prime of bodily and mental vigour. Being a refugee in England, he was selected by King William in 1690 to be his ambassador at Geneva. ”

“ The Most Christian King stands engaged, by virtue of the Fourth Article of the Treaty of Ryswick, not to trouble or molest his Majesty in the possession of his kingdom, and to give no assistance or countenance, directly or indirectly, to any that shall presume to disturb his Majesty in his present possession. ”

“ His widow returned to Switzerland, and the younger son and daughter accompanied her. The elder son, John Francis Maximilian De Hervart, remained in Southampton, and was married there, in 1723, to Margaret Angelique de Vignolles. In the same year the elder daughter, Mariana Ursula, was married in London to Colonel John Guise, regimental Major of the Guards. The Baroness d’Hervart de Hunninghen died in Switzerland, in May 1737; and we learn from her will [5] that her younger son, James Philip d’Hervart, was styled Lord of St. ”

“ Major-General Hervart, as to whom Lord Galway testified that he was a good and brave officer and enthusiastic in the king’s service, was Erie’s senior both as a brigadier and a major-general, and had hoped to be continued in Ireland, [Erle got the appointment.]
↑ Aufrère MSS. [A box of papers connected with several refugee families, which was courteously lent to me by the late George Anthony Aufrère, Esq.] ↑ Philibert Hervart was naturalized in 1698 (List xxiii.) . This might imply that he was then beginning to amass money. It may he another man. ”

“ The British Government established an annual grant for the salaries of seven pasteurs and seven schoolmasters, who settled along with those Waldenses at Dirments, Wiertheim, Knitlingen, and Heyinsheim in Wurtemburg, at Meerfelden and Rosibach in Darmstadt, and at Homberg. ”

“ He was buried in the Parish Church of Holyrood, in Southampton, his funeral being attended by all the ministers of the towns, French and English, and by a large number of the French and English population. ”