any interest, and the whole of the entries seem to have been made merely as personal memoranda for the use of the pastor.

The fourth volume, a thin quarto of about twenty-five pages, contains on the one side entries of baptisms from 1762 to 1791, and on the other of burials from 1762 to 1782. The first entry of baptism runs :-"Le 24e Septembre, 1762, sur un Vendredi, a eté baptisée Anne fille legitime de monsieur Antoine Delacombe, ancien de notre Eglise et de Madame Jeane, née Delacombe sa femme. Parain, Monsieur François Delacombe, ancien de notre Eglise. Maraine, Madame Jeane, femme de Jean Brock, lieutenant, pour Sa Majesté." The fourth entry of baptism is as follows:-"Le 23 Septembre 1764, a eté batisée, sur un Dimanche, Frederic Louis, fils legitime de Monsieur David Louis Monin, pasteur de cette Eglise et de Lydie née Droz sa femme. Parrain, Monsieur Jean Brock, lieutenant, pour Sa Majesté le Roi George. Maraine, Madame Jeane née Delacombe, femme de Monsieur Antoine Delacombe, Ancien de notre Eglise."

There are but two baptisms entered in 1764; one in 1765, one in 1766, one in 1767, and then none till 1770, when there is again one. Under date of 1772 is the notice, "Le service de notre ancienne Eglise françoise de Stonehouse a pris fin le vingt Septembre et j'ai convoqué le Seigneur pour la nouvelle Eglise le 18th Octobre 1772, à deux heures après midi. Martin Guillaume Bataille, ministre du St. Evangile."

There are thirty-five more entries of baptisms from 1772 till 1791, when the list closes. Under date 1790 there is an entry marking the commencement of the French Revolution and the Vendée troubles. It runs, George Marie Eugène, fils de François Bertrand et de Réné le Goff natife de Basse Bretagne en France fut né a Stonehouse et baptisée par moi a la maison le jour de sa naissance dix neuvième d'Avril 1790. Le parain a été le très puissant Eugène Jacques Marie de Kerouatre, chevalier, et Maraine la très puissante Aline Yvesse Maria Quemper demoiselle de Lanascol. La ceremonie fut faite par moi Martin Guillaume Bataille, ministre."

The entries of burials are but nineteen in number, during the years 1763 to 1782, or one per annum. In nearly all cases it is stated that the deceased was "enterrée dans le cimetière de la Chapelle angloise." The first six entries were made, as stated in the heading, during the ministry of David Louis Monin-who became "pasteur," April 11, 1762—and the rest, commencing in 1770, are signed by Martin Guillaume Bataille. All the names that occur are French. There are no notices of special interest.

French Church of Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex.

The registers of this church, comprising baptisms, burials, and marriages, are in two parts, bound in one thin volume tolerably well preserved. In the first part, the baptisms are entered on the one side, and the burials and marriages indiscriminately on the other. The second part of the book consists of an index of the baptisms and marriages arranged in chronological order, from 1684 to 1726, and followed by the notice "L'Eglise Françoise de Thorpe, faute de membres, fut fermée peu après ce tems-là."

The entries of baptisms are all of some length, each signed by the minister for the time being, but none of them stating the origin of the parents. There

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are thirteen entries, signed, "Severin, ministre," from March 1684 to September 1686; one signed Laporte, in March 1687; ninety-nine signed Mestayer, from May 1687 to May 1707; ten signed Colin, from January 1708 to November 1713; and seven signed Richier, from March 1717 to January 1726, when the register ceases. It thus appears that the births, at the establishment of the colony and for some time after, averaged about five per annum, and fell down in the end to less than one.

There is evidence from the minute care of the entries that the register was very perfect. The first entry in the book is as follows :—“ Aujourd'huy 9 jour de Mars 1684 a esté baptizé Marthe, fille de Jean Sionneau et d'Elizabeth Maistayer ses père et mère. De laquelle le Sieur Jean de L'estrille Sieur de la Clide a esté parrain et mlle. Marguerite Raillard, veuve de feu le sieur Estrang, maraine, qui ont dit que cet enfant est née le 6e jour du même mois et de la ditte année. Severin, ministre." All the other entries are similar, only varying in adding at times to the name of the parents the parish in which they live, most frequently “la Paroisse le Thorpe," and, in fewer instances, "la paroisse de Kirby," "de Tendrin," and others.

The greater part of the members of the congregation were clearly agriculturists; a large proportion bear noble names-Charles de la Porte, Pierre le Febure, and Jacques de Mede, occur very frequently. Others less numerous are Abraham de Rivière, and Charles Fouquet de Bournizeau. "Paul Potier,

maitre chirurgien," figures often in the earlier notices. From an entry under date of March 1688, it appears that there was a French congregation at Harwich, as the godfather mentioned is "Le sieur Hypolite de Lazancy, ministre de la paroisse D'Harwich et Dovercourt."

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The register of marriages and burials commences in 1684 and ends in 1718. As in the case of the births, every entry is signed by the minister. Marriages and burials succeed each other with curious regularity, and the notices throughout are very clear and precise. The first entry runs :-' Aujourd'huy 13 jour de May 1684 a esté beny le marriage dans l'Eglise de Thorp d'entre Charles de la Porte natif de St. Jean de Gardomenque en la province de Sevenes, d'une part, et Louise Plumail fille de deffunct Theodore Plumail, vivant marchand demeurant a Riord en Poitou et Louise de la Vaux, ses père and mère d'autre part. Severin, ministre." The next entry is :-" Anjourd'huy 1 jour de May, 1685, a esté enterré le corps de deffunt Isaac de Sevre dit La Chaboissière decedé au Seigneur le 29 d'Avril de cette année, agé d'environ soixante et treize ans. Severin."

The same forms continue throughout, though in many cases of burials the origin or occupation of the deceased is mentioned. In September 1688, is the entry of the burial of "Samuel Bauchamp, cy devant avocat au Parlement de Paris, agé de 78 ans ;" and in December 1705, that of "Pierre Espinasse, de la paroisse de Thorpe, chirurgien." The marriages cease altogether in 1708, and there are but very few deaths after this period-two in 1709, two in 1711, one in 1712, and one in 1718. The last entry is that of the death of "Susanne Grellet," and a notice at the end of the register-index states that the Grellet family kept the books of the congregation for a time. This notice, signed "Jacob Bourdillon, pasteur," and dated November 13, 1784, attests that "Monsieur Jacques Grellet s'étant retiré à Londres, m'a remis, il y a environ

douze ans, le livre des actes et registres de Consistoire, aussi bien que celui des Batêmes, marriages et enterrements de l'Eglise française de Thorpe, lesquels j'ai confié au Consistoire de mon Eglise de l'Artillerie au Spitalfields."

French Church at Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire.

Nothing is known of the origin of the French church at Thorney Abbey, which was established in 1652, and continued until 1727. The register of baptisms begins in 1654, and contains particulars of the names of the sponsors as well as parents of the children baptized.

It is supposed that the Thorney French church was formed shortly after the breaking up of the Walloon colony at Sandtoft in the Level of Hatfield Chase, Yorkshire, during the wars of the Commonwealth, and that many of the settlers then came from the northern colony.

An abstract of the Sandtoft register (now lost) is given by the Rev. Joseph Hunter in his History of the Deanery of Doncaster, from which it would appear that out of seventy-one families at Sandtoft, fourteen removed to Thorney, bearing the names of Bentiland, Blancart, Descamps, Egar, Flahau, Le Haire, Hardiég, Harlay, De la Haye, De Lanoy, De Lespierre, Massingarbe, Du Quesne, and Taffin; as well as members of the following families :-Amory, Beharelle, Blique, Du Bois, Clais, Le Conte, Coqueler, Desbiens, Desquier, La Fleur, Fontaine, Frouchart, Gouy, Hancar, Le Lieu, Marquillier, Renard, Ramery, Le Roux, Le Roy, Le Talle, and Vennin.

There are, however, numerous names in the Thorney register which do not occur in that of Sandtoft, more particularly those of De Bailleu, Lisy, De Seine (Dessein), Le Fevre, Sigié, Le Pla, Rio, Fauverque, De la Rue, Caillet, Wantier, Descou, Dournelle, Yserby, Vandebeck, Du Pont, Brasseur, Seneschal, etc.

The French congregation at Thorney does not appear to have received any accession of members in consequence of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. In the five years following the Revocation not a single baptism appears in any family which was not settled in Thorney before that event.

The average number of baptisms at this church from 1660 to 1670 was 39; in the following ten years, 32; from which time the number gradually declined, until, in the ten years ending 1727, the baptisms were only six.

Judge Bayley, of the Westminster County Court, to whom we are indebted for this analysis of the Thorney register, is descended from one of the foreign settlers, and informs us of the singular mutations which the name of his family has undergone in little more than two centuries-from the original De Bailleu, or De Bailleux, to Balieux, Balieu, Balieul, De Bailleul, Bailleul, Balieul, Bayly, Bailly, and eventually Bayley-all these successively appearing in the register, showing the tendency of foreign appellations gradually to assimilate themselves to those of the country in which they have become native, and illustrating the difficulty of preserving the spelling, and even the sound, of foreign family names during the course of a few generations.

III. HUGUENOT REFUGEES AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.

The following list of the more notable men among the refugees has been collated from Hang's La France Protestante; Agnew's Protestant Exiles from France; Durrant Cooper's Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens, 1618-1688; Burn's History of the Foreign Refugees; the Ulster Journal of Archæology; and from private sources of information. It is probable that important names have been omitted from the list, and that the facts may in certain cases be inaccurately stated. Should the opportunity be afforded him, the author will be glad to correct such defects in a future edition.

age of 81, leaving a numerous family.

AUFRERE, GEORGE, M. P.: descended from a Huguenot refugee; sat for Stamford in Parliament from 1761 to 1768.

ABBADIE, JAMES, D.D.: a native | Chipstead, Surrey, died in 1861 at the of Nay in Bearn, where he was born in 1654. An able preacher and writer; first settled in Berlin, which he left to accompany the Duke of Schomberg into England. He was for some time minister of the Church of the Savoy, London, and was afterwards made Dean of Killaloe in Ireland. He died in London 1727. For further notice see p. 300. ALLIX, PETER: an able preacher and controversialist. Born at Alençon 1641; died in London 1717. Was one of the ministers of the great church at Charenton, near Paris. At the Revocation he took refuge in England, where he was appointed canon and treasurer to the Cathedral of Salisbury. further notice see p. 303.

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AMAND, or AMYAND: a Huguenot refugee of this name settled in London in the beginning of last century. His son Claude was principal surgeon to George II.; and the two sons of the latter were Claudius, Under Secretary of State, and George (created a baronet in 1764), who sat in Parliament for Barnstaple. The second baronet assumed the name of Cornewall. His daughter married Sir Gilbert Frankland Lewis, Bart., and was the mother of the late Sir Cornewall Lewis, Bart., M.P.

ANDRE: the name of a French refugee family settled in Southampton, from whom the celebrated and unfortunate Major André was descended, though the latter was brought up at Lichfield.

AUBERTIN, PETER: a native of Neufchâtel, in Picardy, who fled into England about the middle of last century. He was for many years an eminent merchant in London. His son, the late Rev. Peter Aubertin, vicar of

AURIOL, PETER a refugee from Lower Languedoc, who rose to eminence as a London merchant. The Archbishop of York, the Hon. and Most Rev. R. N. Drummond, married his daughter and heiress, Henrietta, and afterwards succeeded to the peerage of Strathallan. The refugee's daughter thus became Countess of Strathallan. The present head of the family is the Earl of Kinnoul, who continues to bear the name of Auriol. The Rev. Edward Auriol is rector of St. Dunstans-in-theWest, London.

BACQUENCOURT: See Des Voeux. BARON, PETER: Professor in the University of Cambridge about 1575. He was originally from Etampes, and fled to England after the massacre of Saint Bartholomew. He died in London, leaving behind him an only son, Samuel, who practised medicine, and died at Lyme-Regis in Norfolk.

BARRE a Protestant family of Pont-Gibau, near Rochelle, several members of which settled in Ireland. Peter Barré married Miss Raboteau, also a refugee. He was an alderman of Dublin, and carried on a large business as a linendraper. His son Isaac, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, entered the army, in which he rose to high rank. He was adjutant-general

of the British forces under Wolfe at Quebec. He afterwards entered Parliament, where he distinguished himself by his eloquence and his opposition to the American Stamp Act. In 1776 Colonel Barré was made Vice-Treasurer