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that time a Lawyer & expected to be soon call'd into the Parliament was 

 intrusted with the original edict of Xants & all the satutes [sic\ of the 

 Church, as may be sill \sic\ seen in the publick Library of St. Patrick's- 

 when the persecution began to blaze he rec*^ a letter of cachette which 

 banish'd him to another town, there he found another to go further, however 

 he made his escape went to the English Ambassader at Paris told who he 

 was (his name was known tho his Person was not, by his famous transla- 

 tion of Origene against Celstes \_sic\ & beg'd of his Excellency to permit 

 him to give him a rec*^ as if he had bought his library & got them sent to 

 England, which that Nobleman did, by which means he sav'd a most curious 

 collection of manuscripts & other books, which woud have been burn'd by 

 the common hangman as heretical, as soon as he was gone a troop of 

 Dragoons was quarter' d on his House, to force my G-randmother to change 

 her Eeligion & take his children, but she had them all out to different 

 friends, with orders to send them to a house on the quay (where all the 

 Protestants that coud make their escape us'd to meet) with a promise that 

 she woud make hers & meet them there, which accordingly she did, for 

 one of the fellows asking her money to buy a hat, she said she coud buy it 

 cheaper than he & it woud make the money go further & get them more 

 things as they might want them, he consented & went with her, it was 

 night, & her maid (tho a woman) was very faithfull, promis'd to do what 

 lay in her power to help her. my Grandmother made her carry a lanthorn, 

 & bid her when she came to such a house to pretend her foot had slip'd 

 & let her self fall & put out the candle, which she did, & making a great 

 outcry, pretended she had sprain'd her ancle, in the meantime my Grand- 

 mother got into the house, which was left open on purpose, & by the back 

 door got to the quay, where her children were before her, all but the 

 youngest that was at nurse being but six months old, but y^ woman 

 promis'd that on shewing her the copy of a letter my Grandfather had 

 given her she woud deliver the child, the first person my Grandmother 

 found going into y^ house was my Grandfather whom she thought was 

 some hundreds of leagues off, she had much adoe to keep herself from 

 shreiking, but contain'd herself, on acc^* of the danger they ran if they 

 had been discover'd, y' same night they got on board a ship y* waited for 

 them & a great number of others y* had made their escape as well as 

 they, two years after my Grandfather ventur'd his life, to bring his 

 youngest son out of France, for had he been caught he woud have been 

 hang'd, as he had been hang'd in effigie for having made his escape, but 

 y' nui'se was true to him & did not inform against him." 



R. I. A. PROC, VOL. XXVII., SECT. C, L^^J 



