. The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800. -76- BIOGRAPHIES @)(g) ^Wi %. Keating. John Keating came of an Irish family origin-ally of English extraction. Henry, the first ofthe name in the family record, lived within theso-called English Pale in the Fourteenth descendants were summoned to Parliamentas barons of the realm and suffered on account oftheir religion first during the reign of Elizabeth,and again at the hands of Cromwell, by whomthey were deprived of their possessions. JamesKeating, a second son in the line of descent, wholived in the Fifteenth Cen
. The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800. -76- BIOGRAPHIES @)(g) ^Wi %. Keating. John Keating came of an Irish family origin-ally of English extraction. Henry, the first ofthe name in the family record, lived within theso-called English Pale in the Fourteenth descendants were summoned to Parliamentas barons of the realm and suffered on account oftheir religion first during the reign of Elizabeth,and again at the hands of Cromwell, by whomthey were deprived of their possessions. JamesKeating, a second son in the line of descent, wholived in the Fifteenth Century, was Grand Priorof the Order of Malta and one of the thirteenBrothers of St. George, an English Order of Chiv-alry instituted in aid of the House of York duringthe wars of the Roses. Geoffrey Keating, wholived in the Sixteenth Century, was the well-known historian of Ireland. Another Geoffreywas captain in the Irish army at the battle ofAughrimand siege of Limerick in 1691, and afterthe capitulation, crossed to France with his regi-ment, which then took the name of the QueensRegiment an
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