| Description | The Protestant church at Guînes was founded around 1600 and became the chief Huguenot centre of the Calais district. Regular income was received from church collections, and individual gifts, legacies and gifts in kind were also received. The congregation also administered two gifts or legacies of charity lands.
The detailed items of expenditure yield a great variety of interesting information. Charity was dispensed in alms to the sick and aged, in payments for medical attention, and towards funeral costs, for the education and apprenticeship of orphans, for provision of clothing, and in casual relief for impecunious travellers, some bound for or from England, including 'trois prisonniers Ecossais'. Many names are those of families which afterwards became refugees in England.
On page 1, in a somewhat later hand than the register, is a list of Deacons, Elders, and Ministers, for the period of the book. The accounts are neatly kept, in eleven different successive hands, and audited, with certificates usually signed by six auditors, at the end of each Treasurer's term of office. |
| CustodialHistory | Apparently found in private hands by Clestin Landrin, and given by him to William Minet. |