A Biographical, Historical and Chronological Dictionary: Containing Accurate Accounts of the Lives, Characters, and Actions, of the Most Eminent Persons of All Ages and All Countries, Including the Revolutions of the States, and the Succession of Sovereig

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Abbadie (james), an eminent divine, was born at Nay, in Beam, in 1658. He took the degree of db. At Sedan, and was afterwards made minister of the French church at Berlin. In 1688, he accompanied mareschal S'chomberg to England with the prince of Orange, and was with that great man when he feli at the battle of the Boyne. On his return to London, he was appointed-minister of the French church in the, Savoy; and not long after promoted to the deanry of Killaloe, ' in Ireland. He died in London, in 1727. His chief work is a Treatise Of the Truth of the Christian Religion, 1684. - Biog. Brit.

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