| AdminHistory | There have been four successive foreign congregations in Dover: a Dutch or Flemish church to which there are references from 1571 to 1589, a French church which had a brief existence 1621-1622, a Walloon church lasting from 1646-1661, and finally a French congregation of Huguenot refugees established in 1685 and surviving, with some gaps in the ministry, until 1731. No archives of the first two churches appear to exist. |
| CustodialHistory | The Register and two other books of the third church (1646-1661) were taken over by the fourth church and used from 1685 to 1731. They were preserved by Isaac Minet (an elder of the church), and remained in the care of the Minet family until at least 1785. They then disappear from sight until they were bought at a London auction by F A Crisp. They were subsequently acquired from him by William Minet, whose daughter Susan gave the Register to the General Registry Office at Somerset House and the two other books to the Huguenot Society's library. |