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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1911.

CONTENTS.-NO. 90.

NOTES: The Refugee Family of La Motte, 221-' The Concise Oxford Dictionary,' 223 Funeral of Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino, 22.4 Col. Newcome's Death A Figment about John Balliol, 225 David Hume's Grave Signs of Old London Signs of Old Country Inns, 226 College Fellowship sold in 1591 Breda Cockneys- Holed Bridal Stones, 227.

QUERIES : Rev. Dr. Ogilvie 'The Mother and Three Camps ' ' Wine and Walnuts ' The Castle Howard Mabuse : Two Dogs, 227 American National Flower- Peers immortalized by Public-Houses Charles Water- ton's Pamphlets Col. Sir J. Abbott Meridian of London Cornish Genealogy and the Civil War Authors Wanted French Theorist on Love, 228 " Complain " in Gray "Force" in Selden 'Guesses at Truth': Con- tributors " During," "Notwithstanding," Ac. C. C. Babington ' Scammel "= to tread on Lieut. Gordon Urquhart J. Raine, c. 1783 " Knipperdoling " : "Ninny- Broth," 229 Punning Book -Titles D. Johnson B. King W. Kingsley H. Kirby C. Knowles 'La Corre- spondance Prive"e ' Paris Barriers Coull's London Histories Dr. Price, the Druid French Coin, 230.

REPLIES : Fives Court, St. Martin's Lane, 231 Maida King George V.'s Ancestors, 232 " Cytel "Riming His- tory of England, 233 Board of Green Cloth Theses by Secretary Reid London Directories, 234 Stonehenge and Merlin " Tea and turn out "Wall Churches, 235 " Tout comprendre " SS. Bridget, Gertrude, and Foillan, 236 "Caratch" Military and Naval Executions Rev. P. Gordon's ' Geography,' 237 Aynescombe Thirteenth Per centum" Gifla " : " Faerpinga " " Bombay Duck," 238 The Harmonists: Philanthropic Society Bacon Family ' Pilgrim's Progress ' Langley Hill " Thy-

NOTES ON BOOKS : Mr. Bass Mullinger's ' University of Cambridge ' ' Notes on Sussex Churches ' ' National Review.'

Notices to Correspondents.

THE REFUGEE FAMILY OF LA MOTTE.

THE reference at 10 S. ix. 147, 'Origin of some London Streets,' to the house of De la Motte near the Exchange, suggests a query as to the nationality of this name, so fre- quently to be met with in East Anglian pedigrees, and also in London. I have recently been much interested in the story of a refugee family of De la Motte who escaped from Tournai in France at the time of the religious persecutions in the sixteenth century, and who settled at Southampton. They were clothworkers, and manufacturers of a material known as " Hampton serge," and their history, and that of the various Huguenot families with which they were connected, is told in a very interesting manner by the registers of the French Church and by the Court Leet records of the town.

The ' Registre de l'%lise Wallonne de Southamptonne ' commences in 1567, and, besides the names of all those who were admitted into " la Cene " and who made profession of their faith, it contains accounts (between the years 1568 and 1667) of all

" les jeusnes publics qui se son fectes en ceste eglise centre les tamps daflictions selon la cous- tume des eglises de Dieu,"

which is practically a history of their times, from their own point of view, told in exceed- ingly quaint French. The earliest Pasteur at Southampton appears to have been Maitre Wallerand Theuelin, a native of Frelinghien, who admitted the first (recorded) De la Motte on 6 January, 1577, when " Pierre maitre d'ecole " made profession of faith. M. Theuelin, who also admitted his own wife, " called Elizabeth le Makieu," in July, 1568, appears to have laboured most devotedly at the time of the visitation of the plague, which he says

" broke out on the day after the holding of 'la St. Cene,' on the 7th of July [1583], when public prayers were appointed to be said every evening at five o'clock, to make petition against this epidemic."

Also, on the occasion of "le jeusne public," held on 12 September in the same year, supplication was made

" on behalf of the churches in France, menaced by war ; and for those of Flanders, troubled by the Spanish ; and for the church of this town, grievously afflicted by the plague, by which some fifty persons of this congregation have already perished, besides four hundred in the town."

The Cene held on 6 September (1584) was to be the last of this good Pasteur, " who was taken ill the next day, and who died on the 13th between five and six of the clock at night, and was buried on the following day."

His successor was Phillippe de la Motte, a native of Tournai, whose wife appears to have been the fourth person whom he buried at Southampton :

" JeuneMassis, femme de Phillippe de la Motte, Ministre de la parole de Dieu, February 2nd, 1586."

Jacques Massis, father of the said Jeune, was buried 14 March.

On 16 November of the same year is the entry of the marriage of

" Phillippe de la Motte, widower, native of Tour- nai, and Judith Des Maistres, spinster of Armen- tieres, with the consent of her parents."

She made her profession of faith on the 1st of July, 1582, at Southampton, as " Judicht Des Maistres, jeune fille, chez Montonniers," at which time she must have been very young, for she long survived her husband. She died in 1640, having had