'•OrAISOX DU FIDELE detenu en CAPTIVITE."

The catechism of the French Church is also added, and the Psalms in metre with their appropriate tunes. On a blank leaf occurs the following memoranda,

Cette Bible appartient au moy Valther Himbert du Locke & de ta de fond Bourgeois Mangin Lanmille Sept cent et un FI. Au nom de dieu Issac Gieon a marie ma file le 25 d'Aiigust, 1700, par Monsieur le Roux minister de la Francaise de la Nouvelleyoik. X

En j ve Leace de Monsieur Peak dronibut ancien. \^ By an act of General Assembly, passed Sept. 1693, (which was subsequently confirmed,) the Manor of Pelham became one of the four districts of Vv'estchester parish. In the year 1702, New Roche! le contributed towards iheriiinister's maintenance, and poor of the parish, £7 'Ss. Od. In 1720 her quota amounted to £12 145 lid.

At a meeting of the justices and vestry held in the town of Westchester, on the 5th of May, 17t)4, '• appeared Mr. Peter Hulse, (constable for the town of New Rochelle in 1702,) who produced two receipts, for £5., the minister's rate for that year."^ The first minister of the French Reformed Church in New Rochelle appears to have been the Rev. Daniel Bondet. Although by a reference to the charter of Trinity Church it will Le seen that the pastors of the French Church in this place had been '* invested with holy orders by episcopal ordination," as early as 1095.b

• Westchester vestry books.