Posting a look-up to list Lesley Jones ------------------------------------------------------------------- CASTOL: typed as printed on fiche of book. Book details: “Protestant Exiles from France in the Reign of Louis XlV. or The Huguenot Refugees and their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland” by The Rev. David C. A. Agnew. Printed in London by Reeves and Turner, in Edinburgh by William Paterson, 1874. The book is mostly to do with religion, members of the nobility and others with influence at court and has copious Latin quotes. Page 111/112: Pasteur Jean Castol, of the City of London French Church, was a zealous minister and an influential man at court. In 1583 the learned Scottish Divine, Andrew Melville, had recourse to him to contradict false reports and insinuations regarding the Presbyterians; Melville’s letter to Castol is still preserved; Dr. M’Crie informs us that it is is the Cotton MSS, Calig. C. IX, 59. Strype frequently mentions Castol, and calls him “a discreet and learned man, ” - a “knowing person who had considerable intelligence from abroad, and especially from France.” I have already given the substance of his letter to the Lord Treasurer in 1591, representing that the more wealthy members of his congregation had gone to the army of Henri IV, at their own expense, and that the poorer men, if able-bodied, had been provided with the means of joining that royal army; thus he demonstrated that no contribution could be sent for the equipment of the English auxiliary forces destined to fight under the same standard. The letter, so “piously and judiciously expresses,” is printed at full length in the original Latin in Strype’s “Life of Whitgift”, Book IV, Appendix No. XIII. It concludes thu s (regret if any Latin word typed wrongly!): “Ista sunt, amplissime Domine, quae mihi de nostro coetu himmis (?blurred), et magno cum dolore meo, comperta sunt, et de quibis Dignitatem tuam ad vitandum omnem offensionem certiorem factum velim. Ut finem dicendi faciam magni beneficii loco repono quod tantum et tam presentem monitorem habemus qui nos ad Christianae charitatus obsequium provocare dignetur; sed quoniam summa est tenuitas, et opes non suppetunt, aequitatem ac moderationem tuam e nostro nomine omnem sordium et tenacitatis labem abstersuram spero. Vale, benedictionum genere locupletet. Datum, Londini, 19 December, 1591. Amplitudini et Dignitati tuae addictissimus Joannes Castollus” There are further mentions of this priest’s letters and their contents on pages 112/113, but regret haven’t the time to type all of this! Other letters said to be printed in the appendix of Strype book above. One is about news from abroad, with Henri IV called Gallus, and Philip of Spain called Hispanus. Only personal detail on these pages include: “From Mr Burn’s lists it appears that Monsieur Castol was inducted to the City of London Church in 1582.”