reat success of his ministry in these
parts, his church may be entreated to continue for some longer time
his absence from it.' He certainly did return to Norwich, because
on 29th April 1589 the manuscript Book of Discipline was submitted
to the consistory for signature; and Jan Marie signed first, and
his colleague M. Basnage, second. One of his sons, Nathaniel Marie,
became one of the pasteurs of the London French Church, and married
1st, Ester, daughter of the pasteur Guillaume De Laune, and 2dly
(in 1637), Ester le Hure, widow of Andre Joye. The Norwich pasteur
had probably another son named after himself, a commercial
residenter in his native city; for two sons of a Jan Marie were
baptized in Norwich French Church: (1) Jan on 3d February 1600, and
(2) Pierre, on 6th July 1602. Madame Marie, probably the pasteur's
widow, was a witness at the first baptism."

James Marye, with whom we are particularly concerned, sprang from the
Catholic family, and was born at Rouen near the close of the seventeenth
century. He was educated for the priesthood, no doubt at the Jesuit
College in Rouen,--where, as we have seen, Father Perin's book on
manners was printed in 1651. However, James Marye abjured the Catholic
religion in 1726. This caused a breach between himself and the family,
which consisted of a widowed mother and her two other sons,--Peter and
William (the latter an officer), both of whose names however, reappeared
in their protestant brother's family. In consequence of this alienation
James migrated to England, where he pursued his studies, and was
ordained by the Bishop of London. In 1728 he married Letitia Maria Anne
Staige. She was a sister of the Rev. Theodosius Staige, who was already
in Virginia. For that colony the Rev. James Marye also embarked, in
1729, with his bride. Their first child (Lucy) was born during the
voyage.

It would appear that the purpose of this emigration was to minister to a
settlement of French Huguenots at Monacan (or Manakintown, as it was
called) on James River. The first band of these refugees had gone over
in 1690, under the leadership of Olivier de la Muce, and 600 others had
followed in 1699, with their clergyman, Phillipe de Richebourg. The
Assembly of Virginia gave them a large tract of land in Henrico
County--not far from where Richmond now stands--exempting them from
taxation. The name of James Marye first appears i