| Description | 171 pages (pagination added in pencil). On cover 'Sandwich. 1568-1572' is written in a later hand. Part of a leaf from an earlier manuscript was used as backing for the original script. For the dating, see pp. 7-9, 12 (October-January); p. 16 (February 1568); p. 160 (January 1572. For the attribution to Sandwich see pp. 2, 16, 22, 101, 106, 112, 117, 123, 129, 134, 142, 156 and the variations 'Sandewyc', 'l'eglise francoise de Sandewyc', 'l'eglise de la langue francaise en Sanduwits'. Note the reference on p. 2 to the rest of a noble given 'aux deux aglises' by 'ung frere flamen'. At the beginning of the manuscript, a series of extracts from it in a later hand have been pasted on. A note in ink inside the front cover reads: 'Copied by W. C. Moens in 1889.' |
| AdminHistory | The manuscript was discovered by J S Burn, though he does not say where or when. It was in his possession in 1846, and he gives a number of extracts from it. It does not appear in the receipts for registers which he gave to the Threadneedle Street church in 1840.
French is used throughout and Burn assigns the manuscript to a Walloon church at Sandwich. Certainly the references to 'Sandewyc', quoted below do indicate that there was at one time a separate French-speaking church there. On the relations between the French and Dutch churches in Sandwich see Thomas Dorman, 'Dutch, Walloons and Huguenots at Sandwich in the 16th and 17th centuries', in Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, vol. II (1889), pp. 205-240. |