Group Fourth. Medical Men (pp. 238-240).
(1.) Sir John Colladon (pp. 238-9), and Sir Theodore Colladon, father and son, were royal physicians. The latter died in 1712; his widow, Lady Colladon, was a great benefactress.
(2.) Dr. Peter Silvestre (p. 239) is memorialised in Des Maizeaux’s MSS., and I gave the substance of that memoir. He died in 1718, aged about 56. His nephew, Sir John Silvester, knt., M.D., was the ancestor of two baronets.
(3.) Gaston Martineau (p. 239), surgeon from Dieppe, and refugee at Norwich, is the ancestor of the talented and numerously represented family of that name.
Note.
It was not at Norwich that Gaston Martineau’s marriage was solemnised, but in London, within the French Church at Spitalfields, known as La Nouvelle Patente. Burn (p. 173) extracts the registration in 1693 of the marriage of “Gaston Martineau, Mtre. Chirurgeon, son of Elie Martineau and Margte. Harbesson,” to “Marie Pierre, d. of Wm. Pierre and Marie Jourdain, de Diepe en haut Normandie.”
(4.) Dr James Reynette (pp. 239, 240), son of Henri De Renet, was a physician in Waterford, whose descendants adorned the church and the army.
(5.) Dr Pierre de Rante (p. 240), was also a physician in Waterford.
Additions to Group Fourth.
(6.) John La Serre, M.D., was a French refugee in Guernsey. He was born in 1682 at Ville Magne, in Langucdoc; he married Esther, daughter of Peter Whitehead of Guernsey, and died in St Peter’s Port, 10th January 1774. — (Camden Society Lists.)
(7.) The Camden Society volume quotes the following admissions into the Royal College of Physicians, London:—
| 2 | April 1683. Philip Guide, M.D., of Montpellier. |
| 26 | July 1683. John Peachi, of Caen. |
| 2 | October 16S3. Lewis Le Vaseur, of Paris. |
| 12 | April 1687. Joshua Le Fleure. |
| 1 | Oct. 1688. John Dufray, M.D., of Montpellier. |
| 8 | June 1689. Joseph Maucleer, M.D., of Montpellier. |
(8.) Nicasius Le Febvre aliàs Nicolas Le Fevre, was employed as a royal chemist and apothecary as early as 15th November 1660, but was not formally installed as the royal apothecary till February 1664. Sebastian Le Fevre, M.D., of Anjou, was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians, London, 22d December 1684.
Group Fifth. Merchants (pp. 240, 241).
(1.) Deputations to the Lord Mayor of London.
(2.) Mr Banal (p. 240). See Marteilhe.
(3.) Isaac Olier (pp. 240, 241), grandfather of Jeremiah D’Olier, Governor of the Bank of Ireland.
(4.) (P. 241). In the end of February 1744 (new style) the merchants of the city of London presented a loyal address to tjie king in consequence of his majesty’s message to the Houses of Parliament regarding designs “in favour of a Popish pretender to disturb the peace and quiet of these your majesty’s kingdoms,” and declaring themselves resolved to hazard their lives and fortunes “in defence of your majesty’s sacred person and government, and for the security of the Protestant succession in your royal family.” Among the 542 signatures, the following French names, chiefly Huguenot, occur:— Jacob Albert, Gilbert Allix, William Alvauder, George Amyand, Francis Arbovin, Claude Aubert, George Aufrere, J. Auriol, Na-
