carried off several, but still comparatively few victims, from amongst the French congregation, though we must not forget that by 1665 the community itself had greatly diminished. The baptisms recorded run very irregularly. From 1567 to 1631 there is an unbroken series, but none are recorded in 1632 and 1633, the register being silent again from 1635 to 1652, both inclusive. After this there are only occasional entries and even the immigrations of 1685 and following years do not seem to have brought anything like a large increase in the number recorded, the highest number being eight in 1699, i.e. between the Revocation and the end of the century, and three of these were children of Channel Islanders on one side or other.

At the baptism, on 1st April, 1666, of the child of an English parent, the Godfather is recorded with the name of Obadiah Walker. I notice this because it occurs to me as probable, the name is so unmistakable, that this was the same individual who, in later years, was to become the famous, or rather infamous master of University College, Oxford. If so, it is somewhat strange to find him officiating, even as Parrain, in such a stronghold of Calvinistic Protestantism as the Huguenot Church of Southampton must necessarily have been in 1666. Obadiah Walker, although a Clergyman of the Church of England, had, during the reign of Charles II, been strongly suspected of Popish tendencies. Soon after the Accession of James II, he openly professed Popery and celebrated Mass within the College.1 By direction of the King a Royal Licence was issued authorzing Walker, and other apostates like himself, to hold their benefices, an exercise of the dispensing power which was, of course, illegal. As time went on a press was set up at Oxford under the direction of Walker for the printing and disseminating of theological tracts in favour of the King's Religion. With 1688 however, came the Revolution, and with 1689, the Whig majority in Parliament. The apostates of the preceding reign were soon dealt with by the House of Commons, for there was no hope of passing the Indemnity Bill which had been introduced into the House in the

"The London Courant" Tuesday, Jan. 1st, to Saturday, Jan. 5th, 1688-9, reports under the heading of "Tower of London, Jan. 1st. This evening the Earls of Peterborough and Salisbury, Sir Edward Hales the late Lieutenant of the Tower, Mr. Hales, his Brother, all new Converts, Obadiah Walker, an old Papist, who lately pluckt off his Protestant Mask, were brought in hither as Prisoners, for having a hand in endeavouring the total subversion of the Protestant Religion, Laws, and Liberties of England."

preceding session. Obadiah Walker behaved as apostates generally do in such circumstances, and, when before the House, took refuge in quibbles which, however, availed him nothing. He was found guilty of High Treason and sent to prison, whence he was released only on the passing of the Act of Grace on the 20th May, 1690.

The last recorded baptism is in 1779, one Godfather and one Godmother bearing distinctly Guernsey names. The Sponsors on the occasion of the baptism on 8th Sept. 1717, of Ruvigny, son of Mons, Pierre de Cosnes, Chevalier, and Dame Aimee Le Venier, de la Grossetiere, were the Marquis de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway, and la tres Honble. Dame Rachel Wriotesley, veuve du tres Honble. Seigneur Guillaume Russel, who were represented by proxies. We have no difficulty in recognizing here, the widow of the patriot, Lord William Russel, who was executed 21st July, 1683, for his supposed participation in the Rye House plot. The Marquis de Ruvigny, created by William III, Earl of Galway for his valour at the seige of Aughrim, was connected with the Russells, for his father's sister had been Countess of Southampton, and he was first cousin to Lady Russell, who herself was the daughter of Rachel, the daughter of Daniel de Massue, Seigneur de Ruvigny. Lord Galway's home was close by at Rookley, near Southampton, where after all his wars and fighting he had finally settled down. At his death on 3rd Sept., 1720, he made Lady Russell, who, according to Agnew, was his nearest surviving relative, his heiress at the age of 84. I can scarcely think that Agnew was justified in saying that the Marquis de Ruvigny had no nearer surviving relative, for the present Marquis de Ruvigny, one of the leading lights of that extraordinary association known as the League or Society of the White Rose is descended lineally from Ruvigny's brother, Caillemote, who was killed at the Battle of the Boyne. It seems to be a strange revolution of political faith which makes the present day descendant of one who lost his life fighting against the Stuarts, now pose as one of the chief supporters of a Princess of Bavaria to the Crown of England, as the descendant of the Stuarts. From the Marriage Register we get full information, as a rule, as to the places of origin of the Refugees, and the entries under this head are consequently most valuable. will be seen too that the greatest care was taken on the part of the authorities of the Church that these Refugee Unions should have the sanction of parents or guardians on both sides. A note explaining this appears in the original Register and is printed on page eighty-three.

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There is no separate division of the Register appropriated to the annonces de mariage, and only one or two annonces are registered with the marriages. It is possible that a separate book, which has been lost, was kept for this purpose, or that the annonces were published in the churches of the parishes in which the contracting parties resided. In one instance, 1573, the annonce is recorded, with a note that the betrothal had previously taken place en leglise de dieu qui estoit a fecquent (Normandy) avant les masacres fet en la france. There is a marriage entry, under date 14th June, 1580, which suggests unhappy domestic relations. Jan Le Vasseur, N. de Valenchiennes, et peronne Jorre, N. de la Ville de Lille, "et deuant que le presche fut achevé s'en fuit hors le temple, et la Ville, et le païs, Abandonnant sa femme." Mariage fet par Justice et force, du costé de Jan1 On 15th Dec., 1588, Dominicq Sichard, N. de Mondouville en Gascoigne, et Jane Picquet, N. de Vernon sur Seine en Normandie, were married at the Southampton Church. I take the former to have been Dominique Sicard, one of the Guernsey ministers selected in 1599 by the Island Colloquy to proceed to Alderney for a time to discharge the various functions of a Pasteur, in that spiritually desolate Island. Some twelve instances are recorded of the burial within the church of Ministers and leading members of the congregation. Sometimes other burials are referred to as having taken place au camitier and sometimes à l'angloise. The first instance specifically recorded of burial within the church is that of Daniel Sauvage, Pasteur, on 22nd June, 1655. The only other instance of the intra-mural interment of a Pasteur is that of Jean de la Place on 8th Mar., 1663, but Elizth Belier, ob. 22nd Feb., 1658, the widow of the Pasteur Daniel Sauvage was buried in the Church, as was also in the same year the widow of another Pasteur, viz: Jaquine Du Perier, widow of Gabriel Du Perier. Three Channel Islanders are also buried in the Church, (1.) Thomas Careye, fils de Mr. de Blanchlande de Garneze, who died 18th Aug., 1662. (2.) 18th Jan., 1663, Mr. Jean Baillehache de lisle de Jersey. (3.) Damlle Elizth Le Montais de lisle de Jersay on 31st May, 1664. The other burials in the Church are two of the anciens, (1.) ob. 1661, 25th Aug., Ce grand serviteur de Dieu, Paul Mercier estoit un des Grands Piliers de cette eglize et plaine d'aumosne. (2.) 1710-11, 1st Feb., Mons' Adam de Cardonnel, aged ninety 1 They had been solemnly betrothed in the presence of witnesses on 24 March, 1580, en la maison de Courtene, maire de la ville.

years and one month, forty-eight years ancien. Mons' de Cardonnel's wife Anne, predeceased him in 1663, and was buried in the Church on 20th Feb., of that year, as were also their grandchild Jean, on 16th May, 1668 and (3) Mons' Pierre Mercier, on 22nd June, 1670. On 22nd Sept., 1673, Monsr. Dauid Hersent, autrefois ancien was buried dedans le Comitier des Trembleurs, the Quakers' burying-ground: and Mons. Philibert d'Hervart baron d'hunningen, who died on 30th April, 1721, is registered as buried in Holyrood Church, and a long eulogium is added in the entry as to his public services, his charity to the English community as well as to his fellow exiles, and also as to his personal worth.

There is a curious jeu de mot, conscious or unconscious, in the entry of the death on 7th June, 1623 of Pierre Bourrelle. Pierre Bourrelle se bourrella (racked or tortured himself) en se pendant et estranglant soy mesme.

No less than seventy fasts are recorded covering the period from 3rd Sept., 1568 to 8th Dec., 1721. Many of these fasts are for supplication on behalf of the Walloon Churches in their dire trouble; others are for the St Bartholomew, the Plague, an Earthquake, a comet, the seige of Ostend, dearness of corn, the persecutions in France in 1621. Four thanksgivings are recorded: (1) for the battle of Coutras, 3rd Dec., 1587. (2) for the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 19th Nov., 1588. (3) for the battle of Ivry, aupres dun village nommé St. André, 20th March, 1590. (4) for the cessation of the Plague, 16 Jan., 1605. One fast was held conjointly with the Church of England on 2nd Aug., 1626, selon le commandement du Roy en consideration des dangers qui menassent ce Royaume. This was the year following the accession of Charles I, and the troubles threatening the kingdom may well have been the war with France, the failure of the ridiculous expedition to La Rochelle, the unpopularity of Buckingham, and last, but not least, the dissolution by the King of his second Parliament in the second year of his reign. Amongst the Record of Fasts and Thanksgivings is inserted an entry referring to Queen Elizabeth's visit to the town of Southampton, where she stayed from the 4th to 7th Sept., 1591. Le 4e de Septembre, 1591. Serenissime Elizabeth, Roine d'Angleterre, vint à Hamptonne auec toute sa court quj estoit bien grande, et en partit le Te dudit mois enuiron le Midi, et comme elle partoit et estoit hors de la ville, n'ayans peu auoir acces vers sa Majesté en la ville, la remerciasmes de ce que passez vingt quatre uns auions esté maintenus en ceste ville, sous sa Protection, et

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par sa clemence benigne, apres Dieu di-je,1 en toute tranquillité et repos. Elle respondit fort humainement, louant Dieu de ce qu'il luy donnoit puissance de recueillir et faire bien aux poures estrangers, et disant qu'elle scauoit bien que les prieres desdits seruoyent beaucoup à sa conseruation.

Amongst the names of Ministers of the Southampton Church is that of Adrien de Saravia, who, in 1576, was Master of the local Grammar School, and who succeeded to the Ministry of the Church in 1584, on the death of Wallerand Thévelin, the first minister. It may perhaps be interesting to some of our Fellows to know that Adrien de Saravia was the first Master of Queen Elizabeth's College in Guernsey, founded 1563. The connection between St Julien's and Queen's College, Oxford, should make this fact interesting to the latter, inasmuch as the present Provost of Queen's (Dr. Magrath) was an alumnus of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, up to the date of the commencement of his brilliant Oxford career. In the Southampton Register, the death of Christofle de Saravia is recorded under date 20th Nov., 1572, a brother probably of Adrien. In the entry of his death, Christofle is styled "Espaignol de Nation." The first mention of the name of Saravia or de Saravia in the Southampton Register occurs in 1569, when Christofle de Sarauia et sa femme" were admitted to the Sainte Cène on 3rd July; again, on 1st Jan., 1569-70, “La femme de mestre Adrien Sarauia et sa servante" were so admitted. The family of Saravia or de Saravia was of Spanish extraction, but settled in Artois, and they must have been amongst the early refugees. Adrien de Saravia, born in 1531 at Hesdin, fled from the Franciscan convent of St Omer in 1557 and became an Oxford student in 1561. In 1563 he became, as before stated, Master of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and later, pastor of the French Reformed Church at Anvers, and founded that of Brussells. In 1576 we find him Master of the Southampton Grammar School,* and, in 1584, Pastor of the Walloon Church in that town. In 1591, after taking English orders, he became a Prebend of 1 This entry was no doubt made by the Pasteur himself.

Endowed out of the property of a Monastery of mendicant friars situated in the immediate vicinity of the present College. The neighbouring "Rue des Frères," and "La Cimetière des Frères," serve as local reminiscences of the original Monastery.

3 Baron de Shickler, Vol. 2, p. 372.

On the 6th April, 1572, Nicollas Effard and Nicollas Caryé, tous deur escholiers à mestre Adrien Saravia were admitted to the Communion. One of these Escholiers bears a distinctively Guernsey name, N. Caryé or Carey, and N. Effard was no doubt the son of the Refugee Minister of that name. Both probably accompanied Saravia from Guernsey to Southampton.