Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 23 - Rev. Jacob Bourdillon
Rev. Jacob Bourdillon (born 12th February 1704) is the connecting link between those children of the refugees whose recollections of “the noble army of martyrs” of France made them French in their sympathies, and those more remote descendants who had assumed the less modest assurance of a true-born Englishman. In 1731 he commenced a pastorate over a numerous flock of refugee birth, but his jubilee sermon was preached to a few people, and to empty pews. This sermon was printed, but is now extremely rare; the late Mr. Burn possessed the only known copy of it (I believe):—"Sermon du Jubile prononce dans l’Eglise François de l’Artillerie en Spitalfields 13 Janvier 1782, par Jacob Bourdillon qui en a été le pasteur dès le 25 Decembre 1731.” In this sermon the appellation Le Refuge signifies the collective body of French Protestant Refugees (see a few extracts in Burn’s History, p. 162); see also my Historical Introduction, p. 33.