1 42 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



The first notice of him by Englishmen is in Anthonj Wood's Fasti 

 Oxonienses : — 



"1687. In a Convocation held 15th Dec. were Letters read from the 

 Ohanc. of the University in behalf of one Elias Boherel (born at BocheUe, 

 partly bred under his Father an eminent Physician, and two Years or 

 more in the University of Saumur) to be created Batchelor of the Civil 

 Law, but whether he was created or admitted, it appears not. He and his 

 Father were French Protestants, and were lately come into England, to 

 enjoy the Liberty of their Pieligion, which they could not do in France, 

 because of their Expulsion thence by the King of that Country." 



In alluding to this quotation from Wood, Agnew falls into the error of 

 supposing that the Elias Boherel referred to is Dr. Bouhereau himself. It 

 really is his eldest son, who was killed in a battle in Flanders, according to 

 Jane Quartier. 



Dr. Bouhereau informs us that he arrived in England in the beginning of 

 the year 1686. On the accession of William III, he immediately obtained 

 government employment as secretary, first to Thomas Cox, Envoy to the 

 Swiss Cantons, and subsequently in Piedmont to Henri de Massue de 

 Euvigny, Deputy-general of the Huguenots, and subsequently Earl of 

 Gal way. {Statements of French Pensioners, 1702,^ and Ccdenda.r of Treasury 

 Papers, 1689, August 20th and September ; and 1708-9, January 22nd.) 

 Massue de Euvigny had been appointed in November, 169-3, Commander- 

 in-chief of the English auxiliary forces in Piedmont, and returned thence in 

 January, 1697. (See Diet. Nat. Biog.) It would seem that Bouhereau accom- 

 panied him home ; ioT he acted as Secretary to Lord G-alway while the latter 

 was Lord Justice of Ireland, 1697-1701. He is so described in the Portar- 

 lington Eegister, 11th July, 1700 : Monsieur Bouhereau, secretaire cle son 

 Excellence Milord Conte de Galluuai lun des Lords Justice d^Prlande. 



It was at this time apparently that Bouhereau came under the notice of 

 Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Dublin. This learned, wise, and munificent 

 prelate was then agitating for the realisation of a project on which he had set 

 his heart, i.e. the establishment of a public library in Dublin. It is unneces- 

 ' sary here to say more about Marsh's Library, the origin and nature of which 

 have been already related by the last and the present Library-keepers. (See 

 G. T. Stokes, Some Worthies of the Prish C%urch, p. 112 ; Library Association 

 Record, March, 1899.) It is sufficient to say that Archbishop Marsh's notion 

 -was that Bouhereau should be appointed librarian on a salary of £200 per 

 annum -until such time as one of the dignities of St. Patrick's Cathedral should 

 become vacant, when Bouhereau should succeed to it. See Appendix, p. 147. 



^ In the Public Record Office, Dublin. 



