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- From 1701 to 1727, the Rev. Israel Aufrere was minister of the French church in the Savoy Palace, and he then moved to the Chapel Royal at St. James' Palace, where he may have remained nominally on the establishment until his death at the age of 91 in 1758. By then he had built a substantial house in Charles St., St. James' which marked the social status of his family. Israel Antoine retained, upon his emigration, his family name, in preference to a foreign title without an Estate, and as not suited to his profession as a Protestant Minister of the Gospel.
It appears that the learning, piety and manifold virtues of Israel, together with his persecution by the Catholics, and his excellent delivery from the pulpit, combined to draw upon him the notice and good opinion of the Government and of the heads of the Church; and it was not long before he was appointed French preacher at the Savoy Palace in the Strand, where was a Chapel which was frequented by all the principal Refugees. He was afterwards named Minister of the French chapel at St James's, which was resorted to by all the foreign Protestants attached to the Court, and often frequented by Queen Caroline, who was wont to treat him with marked attention.
This estimable and conscientious Divine lived to the great age of ninety-one and dying in London the 4th of March 1758 was buried at Paddington. http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalnote00rive/genealogicalnote00rive_djvu.txt
- Born 1667, son of Antoine Aufäre and Antoinette Gervais. Fleeing. France without abjuring, he studied theology at Leiden 1690, was received as a proposant in 1692, and in 1696 was ordained in Holland [Livre Synodal, May 1692 and Sept. 1696], where his father had managed to transfer 225,000 lives. He was in England by 1698, when he was permitted to preach at Threadneedle Street [FCL, MS 8, f..71]. In 1700 he was endenized at the same time as his father [HSQS XVIL, 317], and two months later married Sarah Amsincg in Holland. He was reordained Anglican deacon and priest by Bishop Compton on 29 June 1700 [LMA, MS 9535/3, p.97]. Becoming a minister of the French church of the Savoy in 1701, he remained in that position until 1727, when he removed to the Chapel Royal, St James. He was twice invited to join the French Committee but declined [Estats, 1706, 1710]. Member of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts [HSP XX, 95]. He built a house in Charles Street, Westminster. He died in 1758 aged 91, and was buried in Paddington. His private correspondence survives and has been described in HSP IX, 108-16, 145-60 and XI, 255-62, and calendared in HSQS volume XL; statements in this entry not otherwise attributed are from those works.
As is noted by Winifred Turner who calendared the papers, they say remarkably little about his ecclesiastical ideas and much more about his activities as trustee, financial advisor, agent, and executor. HSP IX includes a reproduction of his miniature portrait.
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