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Dougatt found the library "in a miserable condition,'\and that it " had cost him 

 out of his own pockett, between 3 and 4 hundred pounds." This can only- 

 mean that Primate Marsh had not done all that he had originally intended to 

 do for the fabric. It is quite impossible to suppose that any neglect could so 

 impair a building no part of which was more than seventeen years old. 



Cotton states [Fasti, vol. ii, p. 112) that Bouhereau "was minister of the 

 French Church, in Dublin." This is not true. Mr. T. P. Le Fanu, in reply to 

 my enquiries, states : " I can say with confidence that Elie Bouhereau was not 

 a minister of either of the French Churches in Dublin. He took part, however, 

 occasionally in the affairs of the Conformed Church as a member of the congre- 

 gation." See his sentiments on the subject of conformity in his will (p. 149). 

 On another point, too, Cotton has, I think, made an error : that is, in giving 

 Bouhereau the title D.D. It is true that the entry of his burial in the 

 Eegisters above mentioned describes him as docteur en tMologie. But there is 

 no record of his having obtained the degree at Oxford or Cambridge or Dublin. 

 It is most likely that his D.D. was a loose inference from his being a M.D., a 

 clergyman, and a theologian more learned by far than most of those who have 

 " performed the exercises " necessary for the degree. To the ear, all " Eeverend 

 Doctors " are of equal standing. Yet although Bouhereau was not actually a 

 minister of the French Conformed congregation assembling for worship in the 

 Lady Chapel of St. Patrick's, he must, as was natural from his past history, 

 have been regarded as one of the important officials ; for he obtained the right 

 of burial within its walls — a pri^dlege reserved for " the Ministers and other 

 Church officers " according to the condition agreed to by the Dean and 

 Chapter in their Capitular grant, 23rd December, 1665 (see LaTouche, ojy, cif., 

 Introd.). Inhis willhesays: "I . . .desire . . . that, if it can conveniently be 

 done, my Body may be deposited in the same place of the French Chappel, 

 within the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, Dublin, where the Bodies of my 

 Mother, my Wife, my eldest daughter, and others of the Family, have formerly 

 being [sic] deposited." 



There is no reason to think that this natural desire was not complied 

 with. The entry relating to his burial runs thus : — 



" Le 7 May, 1719, a este enterre par Mr. Fleury, le corps de feu 

 Mr. Bouheraud, chantre de St. Patrick, docteur en theologie. II etoit fameux 

 medecin et zele Protestant de La Eochelle, tres scavan et estime." 



It is pleasant to think that the bodies of the devoted mother and the 

 faithful son rest together in the quiet and beautiful chapel. The above 

 extract from the will throws light on an imperfect entry in the French 

 Kegisters : — 



1700 Aujourdhuy 9^ Avril a este enterre par M"-' Barbier, I'un 



