Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 23 - Rev. John Hudel
Rev. John Hudel was pastor of Les Grecs in London, and the eldest son of a Huguenot; “Udel” was the true spelling. The senior Jean Udel of Niort, was a Protestant student of Theology at the time of the Revocation, and was intimidated into a formal abjuration. He married, in 1686, Madelaine de Camus, and settled at Bazoges-en-Pareds, to be near his father-in-law, René de Camus, who, however, died soon after from the effects of a missionary visit of the dragoons. Udel soon repented his recantation, and became so zealous a Protestant that he was shut up in the Bastile in 1691, and was removed from prison to prison for the next quarter of a century. After the death of Louis XIV., he obtained his liberty, and spent some time in a fruitless attempt to rescue his three daughters from a convent. Of two sons, the eldest had succeeded in reaching England; he was the pastor named above; his father was permitted to join him in 1731.