Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - Normandy

2917285Protestant Exiles from France — Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 27 - NormandyDavid Carnegie Andrew Agnew

Normandy.

The following refugees from Normandy are named in Waddington’s “Protestantisme en Normandie”:— M. de Monceau, of the parish of Méhoudin, in the election of Falaise.

M. François Bunel de Boiscarré, of the election of Pont-Audemer.

Suzanne Beloncle, wife of a Protestant condemned to the galleys, named Daniel Caron, of Bolbec, became a member of the City of London French Church, 5th March 1687. At the same time, Jacques Bourdon, Jean Renaud, Jaques Salingue, Suzanne Bourdon, of Bolbec, were admitted.

Daniel Caron himself was admitted on 2nd May 1693, when he declared that, having unhappily signed an abjuration, he had attempted to escape from France, and for that attempt he had been sentenced; but that in course of time he was set at liberty through the influence of his friends.

There were refugees from Havre, having the names of Lunel, Reauté, Godin, and Mouchel. M. Waddington says (p. 17):— “A Mutual Aid Society, called La Societé Normande, was founded in London in 1703, and still subsists (in 1855). We observe in its last report the names of Gosselin, Ferry, Levasseur, Mousset, de Boos, Le Brument, Frigont, Geaussent, Durand, Levesque, Rondeau, Hautot, Lesage.”