| Description | 242 pages. A paste-on cover title in a later hand reads: 'Registre des Acte[s] en Consistoire dans L'Eglise dans West Street St Giles 1690 jusqua 1741.' At the beginning of this manuscript is an abstract of contents and an index of names compiled by J S Burn in 1865. At the end, there are summaries of 'actes' of the Consistory of the church La Patente in Chapel Street, Soho, 22 March 1720-22 July 1729 with particular reference to the proposed appointment of J P Stehelin as Minister.
Other references include: p. 5, pews from a church in Weld Street moved to a church in Newport Market in 1693; pp. 52-53, move to West Street, 25 February 1700; pp. 65-75, pastoral union of West Street with Crispin Street, 17 October 177; pp. 164-165, list of deputies at the General Assembly, 11 January 1714; pp. 160, 162, 165, references to the church of West Street near the Pyramide and on p. 160 to the 'church of the Pyramide'; p. 196, pastoral union with La Patente, Soho, 14 March 1720. |
| AdminHistory | On the history of the church see G B Beeman, 'Notes on the sites and history of the French Churches in London', in Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol. VIII (1909), pp. 43-45, Fernand de Schickler, 'Les deux Patentes' Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol. VI (1896-1901), pp. 278-279; 287-290. The registers, with historical introductory notes, have been printed in William and Susan Minet, eds., 'Register of the French churches of Le Petit Charenton, West Street, Pearl Street, and Crispin Street, London', Huguenot Society Quarto Series, vol. XXXII (London, 1929). Water-colour drawings of the interior and exterior of the Episcopal Chapel in West Street, 'formerly used by the Huguenots' dated 1887 are to be found in the Crowther collection, Guildhall Library. |