1698.] PSALMS OV MAROT AND BEZA. 283 



I was told, if I remember well, while I was with those 

 good People, that the Pastor of this Church,^ a very honest 

 and sensible Man, was making a new Translation^ of the 

 Psalms in Verse, or at least correcting, to the best of his 

 Power, that of Marot and Bcza^ to render those sacred 

 Pages more intelligible, than they were in this Jargon 

 which is now become Kidiculous, Barbarous and Scan- 

 dalous.* 



Congregation at Zierickzee (in the NetherlsCnds), was engaged by the 

 Company, at a salary of seven pounds ten shillings a niontli, to i^rooeed 

 to the Caj^e. He sailed, with Anna de Beront his wife, from Middle- 

 burg, in 1G88, for Table Bay, where he arrived four months afterwards 

 with a party of French emigrants. The refugees were located at 

 Drakenstein, Frausche Hoek, and Stellenbosch. [Cape Q. ncview, i, 

 p. 393.) 



1 The Rev. Predikant Pctrns Simonszoon (as the Dutch called him) was 

 a man of determined will, who was justly regarded by his flock as a fit 

 guide and counsellor in secular as well as in religious matters. A 

 quantity of his correspondence is still in existence at the Cape. He 

 gloried in having suffered for his faith, and for those of his own religion 

 there was no sacrifice which he was not capable of making. (Jbid.) 



2 " The Rev. Mr. Simond had prepared a new version in metre of the 

 psalms of David, which he was desirous of submitting to a synod of the 

 French churches, as great interest had been taken in the work by the 

 Huguenots in Europe. He, therefore, tendered his resignation, to the 

 regret of the Drakenstein people, and requested permission to return 

 to the Netherlands. The Assembly of Seventeen consented to his 

 request, on condition of his remaining until the arrival of the Rev. 

 Hendrik Bek, who reached the Cajae in 1702." (Theal, Ilisf. of S. 

 Africa^ I. c, p. 25.) 



^ Psalmorurii DavkUs et aliorum Prophetarum artjum. et paraph., par 

 Theodor Beza, Londinum, 1580. 



"The Psalms of Marot and Beza were", says a writer in the Edin- 

 hurgh Revieiv, "recited by martyrs in the midst of torments; they were 

 the battle-cry of the Huguenots atCourtras ; they solaced the wounded 

 Coligny at Moncontour ; they were the ' Marseillaise' of the Camisards^ 

 they maintained the courage of the ' Formats de la Foi' in the living- 

 death of the galleys." (Vide Edinburgh Rerieio, vol. clxxi, p. 

 391.) 



* In orig. : " C'est une chose etonnante & deplorable, pour ne pas dire 

 absurde, & criniinelle, ([u'ou ait tarde si long-temps a mettre en cxecu- 



