Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 13 - Section IX
De Vicouse.
Among the Directors of the French Hospital of London was Guy de Vicouse, Baron de la Court, Governor from 1722 to 1728. He was a subscriber to the first edition of Rapin’s History; and Rapin’s biographer states that his French title was Baron Vicose de la Cour, and that he was a descendant of Raymond de Vicose, Councillor and Secretary of State to Henri IV, who fought so bravely at the Battle of Ivry, that the king gave him his famous white plume, now represented in the family armorial bearings. This name often re-appeared in the persons of spiritual heroes who were rewarded for their attachment to the Protestant faith by imprisonment and exile. According to Haag, the comrade of Henri IV. was Savignac Vicose, General of his Commissariat and Secretary of his Finances, and Governor of the Castle of St. Maixent. Another De Vicose was beheaded by the Parliament of Toulouse in 1628, he having persuaded the citizens of Montauban to declare in favour of the Due de Rohan in the last civil war. The refugee baron kept the dragoons at bay, sword in hand, and succeeded in escaping to England. His sister, then aged thirty-five, was in 1686 imprisoned in the Convent of Castel-Larvazin. Another Guy Vicouse, probably his son, became a Director of the French Hospital on 5th July 1732.