ALINCOURT, FRANÇOIS D'

A French gentleman, who, in the year 1776, was sent with Don Oyres de Ornellas Praçao, a Portuguese nobleman, to prison by the governor of the island of Madeira for being Freemasons. They were afterward sent to Lisbon and confined in a common jail for fourteen months. They would have perished had not the Freemasons of Lisbon supported them, through whose intercession, with Don Martinio de Mello, they were at last released (see Captain George Smith's *Use and Abuse of Freemasonry*, page 206).