74. MAISSE, PIERRE, 9 Jan. 1686. Natif de Vielle Eglise, fils de Pierre et de deffunte Marie du Pont, 19 ans, soldat du Régiment de la Reine. Almost the only instance of a soldier being a native of the district. Maisse does not occur in the Registers, but du Pont is common. 75. MARTHE, ESTHER, 31 Dec. 1685. 76. MARTHE, JEANNE, 31 Dec. 1685. Fille de Jean et de Marie Tout le Monde, native de Bois-enArdres, 20 ans. Both names common in the Registers, and evidently the families were connected, but I do not find this marriage named. Both sisters were born before the opening of the Registers. 77. MINET, ELIZABETH, 29 Dec. 1685. Wife of Jean Destrier (no. 30). 78. PARENT, JEANNE, 17 Dec. 1685. See Jacques le Riche (no. 67). Parent is a common name. 79. PARENT, MARIE, 29 Dec. 1685. 80. PARENT, JACQUES, 29 Dec. 1685. 81. PARENT, JEANNE, 29 Dec. 1685. The ages of these sisters are given as 30, 28, 29, so they must all have been born before the opening of the Registers. They were all of Ardres, but their parents are not given. Marie cannot be the same as no. 78 above. 82. PLANTEFEBUE, JACQUES, 29 Dec. 1685. 83. PLANTEFEBUE, PIERRE, 29 Dec. 1685. 84. PLANTEFEBUE, PIERRE, 29 Dec. 1685. Two Pierres evidently abjured. A Jacques marries in Jan. 1685 (p. 270), but probably not this one, or we should expect to find his wife Judith Pasoir; this Jacques is more probably the one born in 1669 (p. 11); a Pierre is born in 1671 (p. 40). 85. PLATEAU, ABRAHAM, 29 Dec. 1685. Natif de Gien, 40 ans. Husband of Jacqueline le Long (no. 63), who abjures with him. 86. PLATEAU, ABRAAM, 7 Jan. 1686. Natif d'Ardres, 18 ans. No doubt son of the above, but too old to appear in the Registers. 87. PLATEAU, JACOB, 28 Dec. 1685. De Nielles-les-Ardres, 33 ans. Married Rachel Henocq, who also abjures (no. 41), in 1674 (p. 81); he was then of Bois-enArdres. 88. PLATEAU, JEANNE, 7 Jan. 1685. The name is very common; this Jeanne would be too old for her birth to appear; she was perhaps sister of Judith, at whose marriage she assists in 1682 (p. 226). 89. PLATEAU, MAGDELEINE, 29 Dec. 1685. Native de Gien, 30 ans, fille de Robert et de Rachel de Temble. She must have been sister of Abraham (no. 85), to one of whose children she is godmother in 1675 (p. 100). 90. PLATEAU, SUZANNE, 7 Jan. 1686. Soeur d'Abraam le fils, 20 ans, natif d'Ardres. Daughter of 91. REU, MARIE, 29 Dec. 1685. Femme de Jean Lienard, d'Ardres (no. 70), 28 ans. 92. REUX, JEANNE, 29 Dec. 1685. Veuve d'Isaac Hequin d'Ardres. Isaac and Susanne Reux appear as the parents of several children in the Registers, and in the absence of any Jeanne it looks as though there was a confusion of christian name, and that this Jeanne was Susanne. 93. ROULLET, JACOB, 6 Jan. 1686. Natif d'Ardres, 32 ans. 94. SENICOURT, ANDRÉ, 29 Dec. 1686. Natif de Risbourg en Artois, demeurant à Nielles, 35 ans. Appears as witness to his sister's marriage in 1682 (p. 230). The identity is proved by the fact that in that entry the family is said to come from Ricquebourg en Artois (Richebourg). 95. SENICOURT, ANTOINE, 28 Dec. 1685. 63 ans; appears in the same entry and must be the father of André. 96. SENICOURT, JOSEPH, 29 Dec. 1685. 97. SENICOURT, QUENTIN, 29 Dec. 1685. Brothers, 25 and 30 years of age respectively, both natives of la Couture en Flandres, and living at Bois-en-Ardres. Quentin appears as godfather to a child of the marriage referred to above (no. 94), and was no doubt a relation. 98. SI, ELIZABETH,1 23 Dec. 1685. Fille de Jacques et d'Elizabeth le Febure, demeurante à la 1 This was the commonest Huguenot name in the district, and the family must have been a very large one. These six entries exhibit three ways of spelling the name. Jacob seems to have been the common Christian name of the family. They are also found at Thorney Abbey. Registers; several of her younger brothers and sisters will be found there (p. 25 et al). 99. SIX, ANDRÉ, 29 Dec. 1685. Natif de Bois-en-Ardres, 20 ans. 100. SIX, JACOB, 29 Dec. 1685. Natif de Bois-en-Ardres, 19 ans. 101. SY, JACOB, 29 Dec. 1685. Marchand drapier en cette ville (i.e. Ardres) natif de Guisnes, demeurant à Ardres, 63 ans. 102. SY, JEANNE, 29 Dec. 1685. Niece de Jacob, demeurante à Ardres, 30 ans. 103. SY, MAGDELEINE, 29 Dec. 1685. Niece de Jacob, demeurante à Ardres, 28 ans. 104. SOIEZ, MARIE, 14 Mar. 1683. Sister of pre Native de Tournayaby, 22 ans. The entry of her birth will be found on p. 20 of the Thorney Abbey Registers. 105. VANPONTE, MARIE, 29 Dec. 1685. Veuve de Pierre Hardy, demeurante à Nielles, 58 ans. Pierre died in 1682 (p. 226) at Nielles, aged 42. 106. VANTUME, CATHERINE, 29 Dec. 1685. Veuve de Pierre Destrier, marchand en cette ville, 61 ans. 107. VATA, MARIE, 29 Dec. 1685. Wife of Nicolas Blanquart (no. 7). 108. VITU, JEAN, 29 Dec. 1685. 21 ans. 109. VITU, MARC, 7 Jan. 1686. 24 ans. 110. VITU, MICHÉ, 29 Dec. 1685. These last three are all described as sons of Pierre and Louise Peuuerel. The birth of the last alone appears, in 1669 (p. 20). The mother is there given as Louis [sic] Peuureulle. THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HISTORICAL STUDIES. THIS Congress was held in London in April 1913. The Society was represented thereat by Mr. Charles Poyntz Stewart, F.S.A.Scot., and Mr. Maurice Wilkinson, F.R.Hist.S., the delegates appointed by the Council. The following reports of the proceedings have been received from these gentlemen: As a delegate of our Huguenot Society to the International Congress of Historical Studies I attended several of the Conferences, endeavouring to select more particularly those which would probably treat of subjects of interest, even indirectly, to our Members, and beg to submit a condensed report thereon. The wealth of subjects selected and the number of lectures. given were very considerable. The former included Oriental, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Mediæval, Modern, Religious, Ecclesiastical and Legal History; besides Bibliography, Numismatics, Genealogy, and Sphragistics, which perhaps I may be permitted to explain as signifying the knowledge of historic seals-but has nothing to do with oceanic specimens. The lectures commenced on Thursday, April 3, and ended on Tuesday, April 8, during which period no less than 107 lectures were given, and the great features of the inauguration were undoubtedly the presidential address transmitted from Washington, and the supplementary remarks of Dr. A. W. Ward, the learned Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Unfortunately some of the lectures selected took place at distant places and at the same hours as others of equal interest which it would have been desirable to attend. This was impossible and the cause inevitable. The first lecture I attended was that of Professor Mitrovanoff, in German, on 'Leopold II of Austria and Kaunitz,' his celebrated Minister (1710-1794), hoping to derive information on that statesman's action towards the Church, as also on that of Pius VI and Joseph II (Leopold's successor) whose attempted theological, conventual and ecclesiastical reforms in the Netherlands (1785) caused a rupture with the Papacy. This interesting episode is fully given in Bourgoing's Mémoires sur Pie VI et son Pontificat' (1798). Unfortunately the lecturer devoted himself to the political and warlike history of Austria, rather than to the religious movements, during the period in question. The next Conference attended was that of Professor Vlastimil Kybal, of the University of Prague, in French, on 'The Religious Movement in Bohemia of Matthias Janov, previous to Huss' (1363-1403). This movement owed its origin to three theological preachers, Waldhausen, Militch, and Janov, an Augustinian monk, archdeacon, and confessor respectively. Janov (foremost of these three) criticised the Church with reference to the burning questions raised by the great schism of the West, proposed the abolition of monks and their incorporation with the secular clergy, endeavoured to diminish the exaggerated cultus of images and relics, attacked the immorality of the clergy and the difference between their doctrines and their practice. He held that to effect radical changes the Church would have to be brought back to its primitive purity by a zealous reforming priesthood exhorting the people to crush a corrupt clergy and ecclesiastical scandals, and by a communion' of saintly, virtuous men of selfdenying, holy lives. 6 History shows how abortive at that time were all these early attempts at reformation. This lecture was followed by that of Professor Cauchie, in French, on The Archives of the Clergy of France,' which was valuable and instructive, as giving the chief sources |