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

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They had been solemnly betrothed in the presence of witnesses on 24 March, 1580, en la maison de Courtené, 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. La 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 ans auions esté maintenus en ceste ville, sous sa Protection, et

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 1563.2 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 deux 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.

Gloucester and of Canterbury, and in James I reign was one of the Translators of the Bible. He died in 1613, having, towards the end of his career, conceived and maintained a violent antipathy towards the Calvinistic form of Church Government. I may here mention that Dr Isaac Basire,1 believed to be of Huguenot extraction, born 1607, was, later, Master of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, and that he also obtained high preferment in the Anglican Church having held the living of Stanhope in Durham, and a Prebendal Stall in Durham Cathedral. During the Commonwealth he was deprived of his ecclesiastical dignities, but regained them at the Restoration. He died in 1676. Numerous Channel Island names appear from time to time in the Southampton Register. Over three-hundred names are met with, specially referred to as arrivals from the Channel Islands,2 many of these attaching to genuine Refugees, others to undoubted Islanders not connected with the Refugees, and, in addition to all these, appear very many names still extant in the Islands, though not distinguished specially in the Register as connected therewith.

In the list of "Anglois" admitted to the première cene on 21st Dec. 1567, appear such well-known Jersey names as Poingt Dextre (Poingdestre) and Janvrin, and of Guernsey names, Poitevin and Guille, the latter also a Jersey name, the former, of course, must have been originally assigned to some native of Poitou who had settled in the Islands. The assumption from this is that on these occasions at least, Channel Islanders were styled "anglois;" but sometimes the Islanders, if not individually localized, are distinguished as "des Iles de Gersé et Guernesé," though it does not follow of necessity that some, at all events, of these were not refugees, originally direct to the Islands, for native-born children of refugees are often styled, in the Registers of the London and other Churches, natifs de Londres, de Canterbury, &c.

These Registers contain undoubtedly many genuine Island names entirely unconnected with the flight of the Refugees, such as Samarais (Saumarez), Prieaux (Priaulx), De Carteret, Guille, De L'Isle, De Garis, De Beauvoir, Du Port, Rogier (Rougier,) Brehault, Le Marchant, &c., but, on the other hand, there are many well-known Island names of families, which appear from the Registers to have been originally those of direct Refugees from France, but whose descendants have settled in the Islands during the last three centuries, and we Tupper's Guernsey.

2 A list of these is given at the end of this paper.

may fairly assume that it must always have been an attraction to the Refugees to settle amongst French speaking people. Amongst these may be mentioned, Ozanne "de dernestal près de Rouen," Le Sueur, Hauquart (Hocart) "de Sailli en lalleü" Barbençon (son), Duchemin, Baillehache,1 Neel,' &c. On the 3rd July, 1569," Mons. le doien" of Guernsey, was admitted to the Communion.

This was John After, an Englishman, who arrived in the Island in 1562, and was appointed Dean in 1564. The last Roman Catholic Dean of Guernsey was James Amy, who had obtained an unenviable notoriety in the preceding reign, during the Roman Catholic reaction, by bringing about under especially cruel circumstances, the burning at the stake of Perotine Massy, the wife of a Protestant minister who had been obliged to fly from the Island. The last Roman Catholic Dean of Jersey was Thomas Paulet, who died in 1565, and in 1569, John After was appointed Dean of the Channel Islands group. After's name does not appear subsequently to 1571, and no successor to him as Dean of Guernsey was appointed until 1662, when John de Saumarez was appointed simultaneously with the passing of the Act of Uniformity. Jersey however, had received its first Protestant Dean in the person of David Bandinel,3 as early as 1620. (There must have been a considerable interchange of Refugee families between the Islands and Southampton, and, as is well-known, numerous Refugees in the course of the three centuries of persecution reached England vid the Channel Islands.) In Mr. Moens' Walloon and Dutch Churches of Norwich" we find also some of the same family names as occur either in the Southampton Register or as are now known as Island names, such as Janvrin, with its various spellings, Boutilier (Le Boutilier), Capellain, Douchement Duchemin-Duquemin, Haccart-Hauquart=

1 Joachim de Baillehache sieur de Bieville Montgoubert, anobli aux francs fiefs, 1470. Armoiries. De gueules à un sautoir d'argent cantonné de quatre merlettes du même.

2 Jean Néel, escuyer capitaine au service de M. M. des Etats généraux des provinces unies des Pays Bas. Michel Néel, son frère, enseigne de M. de la Grandière. Michel Néel, sieur de la Bouillonière, paroisse Saint Pierre de Caen. Anoblis aux francs fiefs, 1470. Armoiries. A trois bandes d'argent en champ d'azur au chef de gueules. "La noblesse Protestante de la généralité de Caen, à l'époque de la Revocation. par C. Osmont de Courtisigny.' Bulletin de la Société de l'Hist. du P. F. 1888, p. 537.

3 The first Bampton Lecture was delivered in 1779, by the Rev. James Bandinel, who, no doubt was a descendant of the first Protestant Dean of Jersey. We find also that a subsequent Bampton Lecturer, viz: in 1799 was the Rev. Dr. Geo. Stanley Faber, an ancestor, if I mistake not, of our much valued Hon. Secretary.