THE LIBRARY. During the past year donations of books, pictures, etc., have been received from Sir Henry W. Peek, Bart., President, the Rev. Professor H. M. Baird, D.D., the Rev. A. W. Cornelius Hallen, the Rev. J. J. Kotzé, D.D., Pasteur L. Dégremont, Pasteur A. Liévre, Messrs. W. M. Beaufort, E. Belleroche, F. A. Crisp, R. Day, J. W. de Grave, E. C. Fâche, J. J. Green, H. D. Guyot, S. W. Kershaw, E. H. Lefroy, H. Loriquet, G. H. Overend, H. Pechell, C. A. Rahlenbeck, C. H. Shoppee, Van de Sandt de Villiers and Co., M. G. Wildman, Miss M. H. Gosset, Lady Layard, Miss F. L. Layard, Miss I. H. Layard, Mrs. Mayor and Mrs. Flory. The usual interchange of publications has been maintained with the Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français, the Commission pour l'Histoire des Eglises Wallonnes, the Genealogisch en Heraldiek Genootschap de Nederlandsche Leeuw, the Société d'Archéologie de Bruxelles, the Deutsche Hugenotten-Verein, the Verein für Geschichte und Alterthumskunde zu Frankfurt-am-Main, the Société d'Histoire et Archéologie de Genève, the Société d'Histoire Vaudoise, the Reale Società Romana di Storia Patria, the Société Jersiaise, the Royal Archæological Institute, the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Huguenot Society of America. TABLE OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION, [pp. 1-33]. Comprising an essay on the state of affairs in the Western Church, and particularly at Meaux, which led to the death of the "Fourteen." TRANSLATIONS, [pp. 34-56]. (i) From Crespin :-giving a history of the Evangelical movement at Meaux from 1518 to 1546, inclusive. (ii) From Rochard's M.S.:-. giving an account of the apprehension and punishment of the Meaux Congregation in 1546. (iii) From Toussaints du Plessis: a paragraph on the culmination of the movement and its chastisement in 1546. (iv) From the Records of the "Parlement de Paris":-the judgment on the sixty prisoners, including the fourteen condemned to death. NOTES, [pp. 57-122]. SYNOPSIS OF THE PRINCIPAL NOTES: Note 1:-Jean Crespin. 2:-Meaux en Brie. 3-Seniority of the Meaux "Reformed Church." 8, 9-The Cordeliers or Franciscans. 10 to 15:-Jacques Lefèvre, and Briçonnet's preachers, etc. 16, 17-The Sorbonne, and the Parlement 18, 19:-Proceedings against Briçonnet. His position, and attitude. 8 to 24:-Punishments, and situation, of Meldensian Gospellers from 1523 to 1545. 25, 25a: The French Church at Strasburg, and its 26: Estienne Mangin, and his family. 29:-Celebration of the Lord's Supper by the Reformers 41:-The LXXIXth Psalm as sung in 1546. 66 :-Mutilation of the tongues of seven or eight. 89, 92, 93, 95:-Topography of Meaux in 1546; and the site of Mangin's house, the "Maison des Quatorze." 96a-Huguenots; derivation of the word. 105a-Legal Procedure. 107c:-"Référans espèce de ydolatrie." 113-Lateran Councils. |