Protestant Exiles from France/Book First - Chapter 15 - Agace, Hersent, and Mancke
Chapter XV.
GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENTS.
Agace, Hersent, and Mancke.
These names were held in honour in their respective days, persons bearing them having been chosen to be anciens. For these and other names not traced in my pages, I must refer my readers to the Somerset House registers. In my Historical Introduction it will be observed that Jean Mancke died at Canterbury in 1650, Mr. Daniel Hersent at Southampton in 1673, and Jean Agace at Canterbury in 1676. The descendants of the latter preserved the memory of their Huguenot descent for more than two centuries later, four of them having sat on the Board of Directors of the French Hospital, namely, Zachary Agace (elected in 1759), Abdias Agace (1763), Jacob Agace (1764), and Daniel Agace (1788). The name was sometimes spelt Agache. Through the obliging courtesy of the late Registrar-General and his successor, I made as copious notes from the French registers in Somerset House as my occasional holiday time would permit. Besides these registers, I have had the advantages of imprints of others, namely, the Westminster Abbey Registers, edited and annotated by the late Colonel Chester; the Registers of the Dutch Church of London, edited by William John Charles Moens, Esq.; the Register of Canterbury Cathedral, edited by Robert Hovenden, Esq.; and several London Parochial Registers, edited for the Harleian Society by Colonel Chester and other genealogists. The Scotch registers in the Register Office have also been ransacked, by the kind permission of the Registrar-General for Scotland. Extracts from other registers I owe to various obliging correspondents.