the twenty-ninth of March, 1555, and the twenty-eighth of October, 1559, the number of persons who belonged to the community, either single or with families, was a hundred and forty-six, making a total of two hundred and twelve individuals. The date given in our registers is not that of the arrival, but only that of the taking of the oath of sojourn, which was often delayed more or less, although according to the requisitions of the government the stranger must present himself within the first three days of his arrival. The precise date in other respects is not always given in the 'book.'

DATE OF ADMISSION.

The day when the greatest number of admissions took place was the fourteenth of October, 1557. Among them were forty-four applicants, who make fifty-four persons, according to our tables. But the English were not the only ones who, on that day, formed such a crowd at Geneva. The number was so great that it was impossible to give them audience at once; and it was voted to call the English first, and then the others in divisions, according to their nationality. In addition to the English, four Spaniards and forty-four Italians were received at that time. As to the French, they were obliged to be sent away for that day, and on the morrow a hundred and forty persons took the oath. In all (44+4+44+140) there were two hundred and thirtytwo admissions. It may well be supposed that the women and the children augmented this number considerably, since in the case of the English, though they came from a distance we see that one hundred and forty-six individuals represent two hundred and twelve persons, that is, nearly in the proportion of forty-five added to a hundred. Assuming, then, that the number of two hundred and thirty-two, as given above, should be increased after the same ratio, we arrive at a total of three hundred and thirty-six persons admitted to residence, in two days, by a city whose population was less than fifteen thousand souls. On the eighteenth of the same month, there were a hundred and seventy-seven admissions further, almost all of them French.

This was a critical moment for Geneva. The Bernese evinced anything but a friendly disposition towards the Republic; and it was known that the duke of Savoy, Pilibert Emmanuel, after having conquered the French at SaintQuentin, in his capacity as general of the Spanish army, was preparing to retake all his estates; while at the same time from ten to twelve thousand men were already in the province of Bresse, now the French department of Ain. Measures were taken, therefore, to sustain a siege, and the public orders announced that all those who had not taken the oath must leave the city in three days.

The two hundred and twelve individuals, of both sexes and all ages, whom we have reckoned up, belonged to almost every class of society. By the side of noblemen, or simple gentlemen, we see arranged scholars, weavers, tailors, and other artisans, as well as merchants with their servants, that is to say, their apprentices and others committed to their care.

The second Part of the book makes known the pastors, the elders, and the deacons, elected on the first of November and the sixteenth of December, 1555, the sixteenth of December, 1556, the sixteenth of December, 1557, and the sixteenth of December, 1558.

The pastors were always two in number; the elders and the deacons varied from two to four.

The third Part records, from the fourth of January, 1556 to the twenty-third of January, 1558, nineteen baptisms, of which nine were those of boys, and ten those of girls.

The fourth Part enumerates, from the twenty-fourth of February, 1556 to April tenth, 1558, nine marriages, among which there was one in which the parties were English and Italian, and three in which they were Genevans and French. It is to be remarked that we find no instance of marriage between the English and the Genevans during the entire sojourn.

Finally, the fifth Part records, from the fifth of March, 1556 to April twelfth, 1560, eighteen deaths, of which seven were males, and nine females, and two twin infants,

one of them born dead, and both unbaptized (bothe borne at abyrthe, theon alyve and thoder dede borne, bothe unchristend).

It is quite remarkable that these different numbers of births, marriages, and deaths, distributed over about four years, correspond very nearly to those which are found among the native inhabitants of Geneva, Yet it is necessary to recollect that the English of whom we speak did not all complete a residence of four entire years.

EXPLANATION OF THE TABLES.

Instead of pursuing further, at present, this analysis of the contents of the Book of the English,' it may serve better, in order to give the reader an idea of its character and the interest of its details, if we now group together, in a tabular form, a summary of the information to be derived from this and other sources. For this purpose four tables or catalogues may be constructed. The first (placed last in M. Heyer's arrangement) simply enumerates all the names of the colonists, whether they are ascertained from the book,' or from the registers of the inhabitants and other Genevan records. The figures annexed to the names refer to the other following tables, in which the names occur in the order of the same figures. The object of the other tables will be found explained at the head of them. This first catalogue, therefore, answers in reality the purpose of an index to the use of the other tables, and by the aid of it it will be seen at once what persons belonged to the colony, and where the reader is to look to ascertain what facts the church-book or the other documents supply concerning them. Some account of the more distinguished men in the list may be suitably appended to the statistics of the subject.1

It may not be superfluous to state the plan of the Tables in a different form. In the first place our author examines the civil registers, and ascertains the names of the English and Scotch recorded there as admitted to habitation during the years 1555-1559. How far this list corresponds with that of those enrolled in the church-book as members of the congregation does not appear, of course, from this representation. Therefore,

NO. I. ALPHABETICAL TABLE.

The English and Scotch Colony established at Geneva from 1555 to 1560, arranged in the Alphabetical Order of the Names of the Family with a reference to the subsequent Tables.

Anwick, 60.

Argall, 114.

Baker, 130.

Baron, 27.

Batman, 83.

Beaumont, 28.

Beauvoir, 16.

Bellye, 110.

Bentham, 72.

Bertran, 17.

Blackman, 75.

Bodley 21, 125.

Boggens, 53.

Bolton, 41.

Boudelley, 88.

Bradebredge, or Brodebreche, 45.

Brouhgton, 112.

Burtwick, 110.

Butler, 20.

Cant, 69.

Caryer, 136.

Catoborn, 47.

Chambres, 38.

Chasseon, 89.

Collyn, 137.
Cotes, 142.
Coverdale, 74.
Crofton, 12.
Daniell, 59.
Davidson, 81.
Doton, 56.
Dowes, 145.
Drauffeld, 37.
Dromond, 92.

Dunce, 97.

Duwick, 144.

East, 39.

Eill, 32.
Eneus, 85.

Ffawcon, 132.

Fferrar, 107.

Ffielde, 70.

Ffolgeham, 113.

Ffoster, 1.

Ffuller, 20.

Gatolon, 52.

Gawton, 20.

Gibbens, 68.

In the second place (the object of the third Table), he compares the civil list with the church-book, and eliminates the names in this civil list which do not appear in the part of the book, which contains the names of the members of the congregation.

In the third place, he continues the enumeration (incomplete in the second Table) of those mentioned in the book as members of the congregation, who are not mentioned as residents in the city records. As some of the foreigners became residents who did not belong to the congregation (at least do not appear as such), so, conversely, some belonged to the congregation who did not become residents.

And finally, in the fifth Table he adds four names of individuals who are mentioned incidentally in the church book, who, as far as there is any evidence to show, sustained neither the ecclesiastical nor the civil relation under remark.