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 either in right or in fact, the Lord Bishop of Edinburgh. He always protested against the designation of “My Lord,” saying, “The Church makes bishops, but the Crown makes lords.” His signature now became “C. H. Terrot, Bp.”" and he was addressed “Right Reverend Sir.” In fact, except on some baptismal and liturgical dogmata, Bishop Terrot was a fair representative of the Huguenots in their best days. He wrote to one of his clergy in these terms:— “I think it a misfortune that, in our translation of Scripture, the same word is used to describe the Jewish priests which is used to describe the Christian minister. I do not believe that you are either cohen or hiereus, but only presbyter, by contraction prester, or priest; and that all the modern talk about a sacramental system and a commemorative sacrifice, going up to a belief in a corporeal presence in the Eucharist, either springs from, or is closely connected with, this blunder.” In 1845 he published a volume of sermons, partly with the design to show that “the Episcopal Church in Scotland may still be Protestant in reference to all error, while she is Catholic in reference to all truth.” His private conversation was imbued with a gaiety inherited from his French ancestry. A lady having expressed a hope that he did not favour the introduction of crosses upon the altar, he replied, “Oh, madam, I am so particular on this point that I never even sit with my legs crossed.” The following memorandum exhibits his descent:—

De Terrole, or Terrott, Huguenot refugee from La Rochelle (descended maternally from the family of D’Aubigne).

Captain Charles Terrot (or Terrott), Commandant of Berwick born 1711; died 1794. = Elizabeth, died 1813.

Captain Elias Terrot of the Indian Army, killed in action, 1790. = Mary Anne Fontaineau.

General Samuel Terrot, Royal Artillery.

Rev. William Terrot, Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital.

Right Rev. Charles Hughes Terrot, D.D., born at Cuddalore, East Indies, in 1790 died at Edinburgh, 2d April 1872. = Sarah Wood.

See “Smiles’ Huguenots,” p. 390, and the Scottish Guardian, vol. iii. (Edin. 1872), pp. 181, 247, 281.

A correspondent sends me an epitaph copied from a mural marble tablet within Holy Trinity Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed:—

(15.) David Perronet came to England about 1680, son of the refugee Pasteur Perronet, who had chosen Switzerland as his adopted country, and ministered to a congregation at Chateau D’Oex. The name obtained celebrity through David’s son. Rev. Vincent Perronet, a graduate of Oxford, Vicar of Shoreham (born 1693, died 1785), author of the celebrated hymn whose several stanzas end with the words, “and crown Him Lord of all;” the most celebrated verse, however, beginning thus — “O that with yonder sacred throng,” was the composition of an editor. In the Countess of Huntingdon’s Life and Times, vol. i. p. 387, a.d. 1770, a panegyric of him is given, which I abridge:— “Though Vincent Perronet was possessed of