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of religion. 3. The Edict of Revocation brought from heaven by angels. 4. Signing of the Revocation by Louis XIV. 5. The Clergy congratulating the King on the Revocation. 6. New missionaries sent to convert the heretics. 7. A sure means of bringing back the heretics. 8. Demolition of the Temple at Charenton. 9. The pretended Reformed Religion at its last gasp. 10. Defeat of the Vaudois near Pignerol. 11. Louis dans le temple de la gloire. 12. Illuxit vobis; to the New Catholics of France. 13. The Hercules Louis XIV. crushing the Hydra of Heresy. 14. A series of engravings from various Almanacks of the year 1686. 15. A series of Dutch engravings.

Statues, etc. 1. Monumental group in the Place des Victoires. 2. Statues of Louis XIV. 3. Group at Rome. 4. Monument at Troyes. 5. Obelisk at Arles. 6. Arch at Montpellier.

Medals. A series of upwards of twenty medals, French, Belgian, Dutch, and Papal.

In the History of Devonshire by Mr. R. N. Worth, which has lately appeared in the series of cheap Popular County Histories now being published by Mr. Elliot Stock, little is said about the settlements of French Protestants. There were altogether six of these colonies in the county. Two of themthose at Bideford and Dartmouth-are not even mentioned, while but meagre reference is made to those at Exeter, Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Barnstaple, though this need not excite surprise, as the small compass to which these volumes are necessarily restricted prevents the editor from dwelling at great length upon any one topic.

Devon was one of the great centres of the woollen trade, and Mr. Worth is of opinion that the intercourse with the Low Countries, which resulted from the manufacture, "led easily to the introduction of reformed views of religion into " the county. Be this as it may, Devon has been one of the strongholds of non-conformity from the time of Edward VI.

Another of its manufactures-that of lace-"is said [by some] to have been originally introduced by Flemish refugees, of whom many settled in the neighbourheod [of Honiton], their descendants being yet traceable by their names, though in many cases these are anglicised." Mr. Worth, however, thinks that "the art may have been of older date, and have extended [originally] over a much wider area."

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Mr. William Page, of 22, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, writes to say he has noticed in a petition of the Merchants of

the British Factory at Lisbon for the renewal of their privileges, dated "Lisbon, ye 7th Xber, 1714," amongst others, the following French names, viz. ;-Benj: Leredy, Daniel Garnier, Saml. Garnier, John Lempriere, Simon Dupont, William Vilett, Peter Bonnin, Francis La Roche, Richard Guise, Paul Berthon, Francis Vauriégud (?), P. Arbouin, John Francis Arbouin, and Peter Guionneau :

Also in a report on Portuguese Trade, signed by the members of the British Factory, dated "Lisbon, July 31st, 1715, N.S.," the following French signatures, viz. :-William Vilett, Jacob Laulhé, Francis La Roche, James Garnier, Daniel Garnier, Samuel Garnier, Isaac Goissard, Francis Vauriégud (?), Peter Arbouin, Isaac Reynous, Benjamin Leredy, John Lempriere, Simon Dupont, Brian Palmes, Peter Guionneau, Charles Divie, and James Rigaud.

The above-mentioned documents are contained in "State Papers Portugal," vol. 31 (Public Record Office.)

As the British Factory at Lisbon was a Society of Merchants trading under certain privileges between Great Britain and Portugal, and who had their own Protestant Chaplain, it is to be supposed the persons named above were descendants of Huguenots.

Mr. W. J. C. Moens, of Tweed, Lymington, sends the following note upon "The Field Preachings at Antwerp": Antwerpsche chronykje, in het welk zeer veele en elders te vergeefsch gezogte geschiedenissen, sedert den jare 1500. Tot her jaar 1574. Door F. G. V. en thans, naar deszelfs aldaar ontdekte Handschrift, Voor de eerstemaal in't licht gebracht. Leyden, 1743, sm. 4to., 260 pages. Second edition. Antwerpen, 1843. sm. 4to. Edited from the original M.S.

This interesting contemporary Chronicle, which gives full day to day particulars of the eventful period of the troubles on account of religion at Antwerp, escaped notice, though both editions were in my library, when the papers were prepared on the subject of the field preachings in 1566 near the above city for the Meeting of the Society in March.

There can be no doubt, as the editor of the 2nd edition remarks, that this Chronicle was written at Antwerp. It is to be observed that at first the years commence on the 1st January; but later the new year is reckoned from Easter. A fac-simile specimen of the MS. is given in the edition of 1843 (page 79), which shows that the editor of that year followed far more closely the original than did his predecessor of 1743.

These volumes I shall be pleased to exhibit at a future Meeting.

The following passage taken from Mr. Reginald Lane Poole's useful little History of the Huguenots of the Dispersion, will supplement the remarks made by Mr. Squire in Part 3 of the Proceedings upon the manufacture of hats carried on by the French refugees at Wandsworth. "The old settlement at Wandsworth, then (at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes) slowly disappearing, was called into fresh life by a large number of furriers and manufacturers of beaver hats, chiefly from the town of Caudebec, which gave a name to its most famous industry. For forty years, until a theft restored the art, France was reduced to import all the best goods of this kind from England; even the Cardinals of the Holy College fetched their hats from Wandsworth. And at the end of last century the works in the village, though much reduced, were still existent."

Miss Emily Holt, of Balham House, Balham Hill, S.W., has very kindly furnished the Hon. Secretary with the following notes of entries relating to French names which she has met with in examining the Registers of certain London Churches. ST. JAMES, PICCADILLY.

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(Baptisms.)

Charles D'fforce, of Danl. and Catherin; born 4th.
Francis Du Montin, of Petre and Twinet; born 1st.
Dorothy Duperry, of Cloud and Dorothy.

Daniell Cailland, of Rubens and Lady Anthoinette ;
born 13th.

Blanch Havard, of David and Cecilia; born 19th.
George Brooke Lepell, of Nicholas and Mary ; born 17th.
Isaac Rabateau, of Peter and Susan; born 19th.

ST. CLEMENT DANES.

(Baptism.)

Martha Bufoyl❜oth, duughter of Saml. and Martha, uxor. ST. MARGARET, WESTMINSTER.

(Marriage.)

Samuell Bulteel to Mary Jurin, p. Lic.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.

(Marriage.)

William Lewes Le Grand, of St. Ann, Westminster, and Helena Southwell, of St. Martin, Westminster.

Mr. Hubert Hall has recently contributed a paper to the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society on The Imperial

Policy of Elizabeth, in which, by the light of modern research, he sharply criticises the great Queen's relations with foreign powers. Her policy, he endeavours to show, was vacillating and selfish, and frequently carried out at the expense of her Protestant allies on the continent; and he has little doubt but that it was actuated by positive antipathy to both the political and religious programme of the foreign Calvinists. "At heart," she "disliked the Leaguers less than the Huguenots, and was less jealous of the influence of Guise than of the counsels of Coligny." In fact, Mr. Hall is of opinion that Elizabeth, like most arbitrary sovereigns, preferred the example of despotic rule to that of constitutional government in a foreign state, even where that despotism was a continual danger to her own existence.

In the Evelyn Library at Wootton there is a Prayer Book printed at London in 1638, and stamped on the back with the royal arms. On the fly-leaf there are two inscriptions to the effect that the book was the one used by Charles the First on the scaffold, and that it was given on the very day of the King's death by "Isacius Heraldus" to Sir Richard Browne, the father-in-law of John Evelyn of the Sylva.

Mr. Martin Tupper endeavoured some years ago, through the medium of Notes and Queries, to ascertain who "Isacius Heraldus" may have been; but his enquiry elicited no reply. The matter has now been examined into by Mr. Winslow Jones, of Exeter, and he has come to the conclusion" that the person who secured the Prayer Book, and gave it to Sir Richard Browne, was Isaac Herault, who was the son of Didier Herault, and the brother of Louis Herault," the well-known "Huguenot" Canon of Canterbury Cathedral.-Notes and Queries, 6th series, Vol. 12, p. 250.

The Vestry of the French Protestant Episcopal Church of the Savoy, Bloomsbury, has issued, in pamphlet form, the "Statement of the Claim," compiled by Mr. Wm. Morris Beaufort, which has been preferred to the Lords of the Treasury for the continuance of the annual grant made by the Government to the Church up to the year 1884. Apart from its value in setting forth the grounds upon which the " Claim" is founded, the pamphlet forms a useful contribution towards the history of the Church.

When Louis XIV. revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1685, and the Huguenots fled from France, many of them settled in Streatham and many more in Tooting. The latter town still

retains, in the names of a great number of its inhabitants, unmistakable traces of the Refugees. It was on this account that Streatham was considered in the 17th Century, to be a manufacturing place.-History of Streatham. By F. Arnold, Junior, 1886.

Amongst the engravings illustrating an article by Professor E. A. Freeman, entitled Some less known Towns of Southern Gaul, which appeared in the October number of the English Illustrated Magazine, there is one of Aigues-Mortes.

There are two passages in the recently published life of Raleigh, edited by Mr. Edmund Gosse for Messrs. Longmans' series of English Worthies, concerning the connection of this famous "worthy" of Devon with the Huguenot party in France, but no fresh light is thrown upon the subject.

We have to record the death of a gallant officer of Engineers, well known in philanthropic circles, Major-General John Theophilus Boileau, F.R.S., which occurred on Sunday at his residence in Ladbroke-square, Notting-hill. A son of the late Mr. Thomas Boileau, he was born in 1805, and entered the Indian Army in 1820 as a Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers. He obtained a captaincy in 1846, and was for some time Superintending Engineer in the Public Department of Works for the North-West Provinces, at Simla, and he retired from the service with the rank of Major-General. General Boileau came of a noble Huguenot family, which is descended in an unbroken line from Etienne Boileau, Baron de Castlenau and St. Croix, of the Province of Languedoc, whom Louis IX., on his departure for the Holy Land, appointed during his absence Governor of Paris, and Grand Provost of France. His descendant, Charles Boileau, Baron of Castlenau and St. Croix, fled to England at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The gallant officer now deceased was married in 1829 to Ann, daughter of Mr. William Hanson. General Boileau was a man of high scientific attainments, as is proved by the fact that he was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also for many years one of the most active and zealous supporters of the Soldiers' Daughters' Home at Hampstead, one of the most excellent of our charitable institutions. General Boileau's funeral will take place to-morrow at Kensal-green Cemetery shortly after noon.-The Times, Wednesday, 10 November, 1886.

Lieutenant-General William Arden Crommelin, C.B., an old officer of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers, died on Saturday, at

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