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 no certificate of naturalisation was requisite, it being unlikely that any would resort to rural dwellings. On 26th June 1669 the Town Council of Edinburgh granted a warrant to Anne Salomon, Frenchwoman, to sell pebbles, precious stones, or other commodities she had to sell. On 26th March 1675 Lewis Defrance presented to the Council certificates that “he is well expert in that famous and excellent airt of musick, and hath y$e$ most fyne and newest tunes which have beene sung in the Court of France, both French and Italian,” and petitioned for permission “to keep ane publick musick scholl for the benefeit of the inhabitants.” His petition was granted, on the understanding that it was an exceptional case, it being the rule that “no stranger of ane other nation shall have liberty.” Before the close of the year the music-school in Aberdeen desired a teacher, and he hastened to divest himself of his office in Edinburgh, and “Lues de France” was admitted master of the music school at Aberdeen on 24th November 1675 (see the printed Extracts in the Burgh Records Society’s publication). He was re-engaged at Edinburgh in 1682 (8th March), and there we leave him on 11th December 1685, receiving more liberal payments from the Town Council. On 11th January 1682, Jean Debaut, rop-maker, received a grant of a piece of waste ground beween Edinburgh and Leith, to set up a work for making rigging for ships. [There was on 25th October 1683 a Paul Dubois, rope-maker in Dublin.]

If the Jervays came from France in 1669, their case is singular, because they were farmers. Sir James Simpson’s ancestor was Edward Jervay, farmer in Torwood, in the parish of Dunipace. His testament is in the Edinburgh Commissariot records, by which it appears that he died in the month of November 1675. His brother John was tenant of Larbert-Sheills, and died in December of the same year. A kinsman was tenant of Steinertishill or Stenhouse Hill, James Jervey, who died in 1677; whose grandson was Rev. Charles Jervey, M.A., of Glasgow, Presbyterian minister of Campvere in Holland, who died 13th August 1738, aged about thirty-seven. The descendants of “Torwood” removed into the parish of Bathgate, leaving in the Dunipace register what seems to be a protest that they were of Huguenot descent. On 16th October 1748 the baptism of Alexander, a son of William Jervy, had been registered; Jervy has been erased, and Gervie in bold characters has been written over the erasure.

I might give specimens of other names which are said to be Huguenot, and which date from an earlier period than 1685; for instance —

. As a Scotch name, spelt Cusing, it appears in the baptismal register of Dunfermline on 17th July 1586. In the Scotch registers I found it correctly spelt once only, namely, James Cousin, schoolmaster in New Greyfriars’ parish, Edinburgh, in 1755 and 1757; that he named a son Gideon might indicate Huguenot ancestry. As to spellings which may imply a French origin, we may note James Cusine, or Cousine, weaver and portioner of Uddingston, who died 13th January 1746; and John Cousines, formerly master of the good ship The Othello, latterly a ship-master in Greenock, who died in June 1765.

. This is a Berwickshire surname. In the parish register of Chirnside there is the baptism of Catharine, daughter of John Fish, 7th May 1671, and other baptisms follow, down to 14th October 1687.

. Robert Dippe, or Deippe, or Dippie, upholsterer and trunkmaker, in “Caldtoune,” Edinburgh, made a marriage contract on 7th October 1663. Eupham Deippie, relict of Robert Moreson, burgess of Canongate, was buried in the Abbey of Holyrood on 17th May 1665. “Died at his son-in-law’s house, West Coates, Edinburgh, 16th January 1881, Peter Dippie, late of Chirnside, in his eighty-eighth year.”

&#42;&#8270;* A young Scottish gentleman, Alexander Thomson, Esq., of Banchory (born 1798, died 1868), brought to light the medal struck by Pope Gregory XIII., in honour of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572, the existence of which had been denied by the Romanists and forgotten by most Protestants. Mr. Thomson was in Rome in the end of 1828 and beginning of 1829, and wrote the following account of his visits to the Papal Mint in the Vatican:—

“I went to the Papal Mint in the Vatican, and presented a list of a few medals I wished to purchase, among which I named. The Custode read my list, and said, ‘I can give you all of these, but one, of which I am not certain, but I will go and look for it’ He returned in a few minutes, and said he had found one impression of Ugonotorum strages, which he handed to me, pointing out that it was badly struck; he, however, told me they had the original die, and would be happy to throw off a few, of which I might have my choice. I secured the damaged one, and arranged to return in a fortnight, when he said the others would be ready. I did so, and he produced six, telling me to choose any one I liked. To his considerable surprise I chose the whole, instantly paid for them, and walked off with my prize. In order to make them of general use, I distributed them among friends in different parts of the world. Somehow or other the medal attracted notice, and engravings of