to Demoiselle Claude Auber(t),' daughter of Monsr. de la Haie Auber(t), Conseiller au Parlement de Rouen. Demlle. Claude Auber(t) was admitted to the Communion at the Southampton church, on 5th July, 1573. De la Forêt subsequently returned to Flanders, and after many vicissitudes, was killed in a sortie from Anvers, in 1584, when it was besieged by the Spaniards. His widow returned to England after this with her only surviving son, residing for a space of some four years, partly at Rye and partly in London. She subsequently married as a second husband, L'hommeau du Gravier, minister of one of the Guernsey parishes.

Gabriel, Comte de Montgomery, referred to just now, was, as is well known, the involuntary author of the death of Henri II, at a tournament in Paris on 10 July, 1559. He subsequently became a Protestant and a devoted adherent of the illustrious Coligny, whose fate he narrowly escaped sharing in Paris on the fatal Eve of St. Bartholmew, 1572. The fortunes of the Huguenots in the North of France were entrusted to his skill and bravery, but he was at length besieged in the Castle of Domfront, in Normandy, and obliged to surrender, his life being promised him, but he was nevertheless carried to Paris and there treacherously executed on the 27th May, 1574. In addition to the editing and publishing of the Channel Islands' Parish Church Registers it would be of importance to publish extracts from the Actes of the Royal and Ecclesiastical Courts of Jersey and Guernsey. The Baron de Schickler gives copious lists of the names of those Refugees who made their Reconnaissances before the Consistories of St Helier and Grouville in Jersey, and St Pierre Port in Guernsey.

Confirmation of some of the family names of Ministers quoted from the "Chroniques de Jersey" is to be found in the Southampton Registers, as under :—

At p. 16 we find "Susanne Le Roy, dit de Bouillon, 1580." and at p. 46, "Pierre Le Roy, dit Bouillon, parrain, 1583," and earlier p. 44, "Bapt. 18th Oct., 1579, of Jan, fils de Mons de Bouillon, Ministre de la parolle de Dieu." This latter is no doubt, Pierre Le Roy, dit Bouillon, Minister of St Pierre du Bois and Torteval, Guernsey. From p. 87, 1580, 21st Augt., we find that Rachel Le Roy, dit Bouillon was de Dieppe. On p. 9, Mons de la Mullonière, is Témoin to an admission. to the Sacrament, 1574, 3 Janvier, this is no doubt Mons' Noel Perruquet, dit de la Mullonière, Minister of St Sampson's, 1 Tous deux estans emanchipéz.

Guernsey. The name of Nicolas Baudoin, Minister of St Pierre Port, Guernsey, appears more than once.

On p. 42, Jacques Roulet, 1574, probably Jacques Roullées, Minister of St André, Guernsey.

On p. 11, Samuel Loumeau, we find was admitted to the Communion, 3rd July, 1575, and Samuel "Loulmeau" (? L'Hommeau) du Gravier is amongst the Ministers in Lists 2 and 3.

On p. 33, Susanne Bonnespoir, admitted to the Communion 2 January, 1620, "en vertu d'un tesmoignage de la mesme," i.e., "de l'Isle de Jersee," and amongst Guernsey Ministers we find the name of Marin Chrestien, dit Bonespoir, Minister of St Pierre Port.

It is not altogether easy to construct from the Register a list of the Ministers of the Southampton Church during the period covered, because it is not always stated that such and such a Minister was "de cette église," but we find the following, of whom I trust, the Society may one day be favoured with some biographical sketches, such as those which add so much interest to Mr Moens' "Norwich Church."

Wallerand Thévelin, 1567.

Adrien de Saravia, 1584.

Matieu Sohier, 1584.

Philippe De la Motte, 1586.

Timothée Blier, 1604. the subject of much discussion at the London Colloquy of that year.

Elie d'Arande, 1619.

Daniel Sauvage, 1634.

Le Sieur Bellier, autrefois ministre de cette église' mentioned, 1649. Gabriel Du Perrier, mentioned 1657.

Jean De la Place, mentioned as "defunt," 1664.

Jean Couraud, mentioned 1665.

Antoine Cougot,

"et Docteur en medecine," mentioned 1691.

Pierre de Neveu de St. Denis, 1720.

David Duval, 1723.

Isaac Jean Barnouin, mentioned 1736.

The names of several Refugee Ministers appear, but not as serving the Church, viz:

Boisel, 1573.

De la Porte, 1573.

De la Vingne, 1573.

Du Cenet, 1573.

Graffart, 1573.

Jacques Roulet,2 1574.

Jan Baudar, 1574.

Vallendry, 1577.

1? Blier Supra.

2 Minister of St. André, Guernsey, after 1585.

List 3.

Michiel de la Forêt,' native de la Ville de Lille, 1576.

Sylvius, 1681.

Isaac D'Huissaux, 1690.

Phillippe François Lambert, 1724-5.

Samuel Tavan, 1773.

And the earliest in date, Richard La Molere, "Autrement Mons. Des Molins, ministre de la parolle en l'église de Dieu a Quarenten en Constantin," 1569.

There is always one reflection which is forced upon my mind. after consulting the Registers of the Huguenot Churches, especially those of Threadneedle St., Soho and Spitalfields, as well as of the great settlements at Canterbury and Norwich, and that is, where are the descendants of all those whose births, marriages and deaths are recorded in those Registers? The answer to this question is, I imagine, a simple one-The descendants of those good people are all around us. The usual proof of Huguenot descent, as derived from the family surname, is of course unattainable in the case of descent in the female line, but even otherwise, the corruptions to which French names have been subjected in England in the course of generations, as well as the changes from French to English equivalents in a large class of surnames, such as Le Blanc to White, Du Bois to Wood, &c., &c., prevent us in innumerable instances from recognizing the descendants of Huguenot settlers in this country. Nevertheless it seems to be somewhat strange that, after an existence of nine years, this Society should not number more than from three to four hundred members. (If we consider the immigrations that began in Edward the VI's reign and were continued into the third quarter of the eighteenth century, the infusion of Huguenot blood into the English community must have been very great, even allowing for the permanent return to the Continent of many families during the reign of Mary Tudor and as the possible results of the Accord d'Ypres in 1566 and of the accession of Henri IV to the throne of France in 1589. Towards the end of Elizabeth's reign a census of the alien settlers in the city of Norwich gave their number at nearly five thousand, and in 1621, the census of strangers for the City of London yielded no less than ten thousand. Taking into account the other places of settlement in England, such as Sandwich, Canterbury, Maidstone, Southampton, Colchester, &c., we may estimate I think, without exaggeration, that at 1Chaplain to the Comte de Montgomery.

2 The name of Patris is found in Guernsey as early as the fifteenth century.

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the close of the first decade of the eighteenth century, the original refugees and their descendants on both sides, male and female, must have numbered not far short of two hundred thousand, a number which, on a population of five and a half millions, would yield an appreciable percentage of persons with more or less of Huguenot blood in England at that epoch. In addition, we should not forget the large settlements in Ireland, at the date of the Revocation especially, nor the smaller but still appreciable settlements in Scotland.1

We, who are amongst their descendants, must be pardoned if we express our conviction that the leaven thus introduced into the National life of England has been of unmixed good to the community, and I cannot doubt that if, to quote one of the professed objects of the Society, we persevere in perpetuating the memory of our Huguenot ancestors and continue also to admire and perpetuate their characteristic virtues of constancy to their Faith, their trust and patience under suffering and their sincerity and simplicity of life, we shall be doing something, if ever so little, to help and lift up not only ourselves but the National life, which, unless kept to pure and lofty ideals must necessarily deteriorate. That it is easier to fall than to rise is as true of the nation as it is of the individual.

In the Register are entered four Actes du Consistoire. The heading superscribed is as follows:

Liure por. Les afferres suruenātes en Ceste Eglise. Two of these are 16th century, and two, 18th century Actes. The first is dated 13 July, 1584, and relates to the visit of congratulation made by the Minister and anciens to the newly appointed Bishop of Winchester. Le 13 Juillet, 1584, par ordonnance du Consistoire, Le Ministre, Mathieu Sohier, guilaume Hersen et pierre Le Gay (anciens), furent Salué docteur Houppe2 por. lors Nouvellement fet euesque de vincestre, luy priant Nous porter bonne affection_au Maintient de Notre eglise, Comme ses predecesseurs Nous auoient porté. Apres nous auoir ouy, nous Respondit benignement quil le feroit et qu'il ne vouloit rien alterer. Seullement que nous eussions a porter en gens de bien. Chose que nous dimes auoir en Voulonté de ferre. La dessus Le Remerciames, prenant Congé de Luy. The second acte is

1 In his "History of the French Protestant Refugees," Charles Weiss estimates the number of workmen and manufacturers who took refuge in the United Kingdom at the Revocation, at 70,000; this does not include, therefore, the Pasteurs, professional men, and soldiers who, together, must have numbered some thousands more.

2 Thomas Cowper, Bishop of Winchester 1584 to 1595.

dated 19th July 1584, and relates to the public notice given throughout all the French Churches in England as to the support and education of young scholars with a view to their preparation for the Ministry. The third acte is dated some hundred and thirty-nine years later, viz. in 1723 and refers in distinct terms to the connection of the Church with the Channel Islands. Le 16e. du mois d'auril 1723. En l'assemblée de Leglise françoise et des Isles de Jersey, guernesey, Origny, Sercq, &c. Sur Labandonnement qu'ont fait les Anciens de L'Eglise precedents, il a esté procedé a Lelection de nouueaux pour exercer cette fonction, et Lassemblée a Elu Messrs. Pierre Seale et amice Dauuergne, pour Lisle de Jersey, et Messrs. Nicolas d'Aubrais,1 et Pierre Carrey, pour Lisle de guernesey, lesquels sont representés par Messrs. Paul Voyer, français, et Abraham Le Grisley, Anciens Actuels de cette ditte Eglise, pour La gouuerner Conformément aux usages de L'Eglise de ce lieu, et ce sous La Conduitte de Mons. Pierre Deneueu de St. Denis, notre ministre, et sur le refus fait par les precedents Anciens, de remettre le liure des actes, il a este resolu de inserer le present dans Ce livre. En foy de quoy nous avons Signé, les Jours desus:

et an que

This acte arose, of course, out of the secession which took place in the congregation on the introduction of the English Liturgy into the Services of the Church as referred to on page 131.

The acte books were eventually retained by Mr de St. Denis, but the Register in which these entries are recorded was restored to the Church. The acte books have unfortunately been lost as well as the minute book of the Consistory. The fourth acte recorded in the Register is dated 7th April 1725 and runs in the name of lassemblée des Chefs de famille de L'Eglise françoise et des Isles de Jersey, Guernesey, Origny, Serq, &c. By this il a esté unaniment resolu que les actes qui se feront dans la suitte seront inserés dans le nouueau registre, Jusqua ce que celuy que les françoise separés 2 ont Emporté soit restitué entre nos mains.

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2 i.e. The Conformist members.