On the Sabbath it was the temple whither the settlers went up to worship and listen to the religious Instructions of the pious Bonrepas, their beloved pastor, and to join in the raptures inspired by the singing of Marot's hymns. It is surprising to see what exjiedients necessity will adapt ; into how narrow a comjiajts It will compress the proprieties of life, both civil and religious; how few and simple are the requirements of society and genuine religion, when stripped of the conventional superfluities bestowed by pride and wealth.

"In this same house the first child was born, to one Louis Guion, and there the first Huguenot marriage took place, the groom being .lean Coutant, and the bride the daughter of David Bonnefoy. The marriage ceremony was perfonned by the Right Rev. David de Bonrepas, who Dnited, in his niiniaterial functions, the several offices of bishop, priest and presbyter to the French Protestant Church at New Rochelle.^

In addition to much other useful information, Mr. Coutant has communicated the following observations upon the social characteristics and domestic economy of the early Huguenots.

1 The details of the manners and customs of the Huguenots were prepared by Rev. Charles E. Lindsley, D.D., for his chapter upon New Rochelle, and are transferred to his chapter by reason of its being the most proper place for their insertion.

' Contant's " Reminiscences "'

" Not in former times, as now, were the families in country villages or districts dependent on the butcher's stalls for the daily supply of their table, nor yet \ipon the baker's shops and the flour mercliunts for bread and pastry. These staples of life, iis well as their wearing apjiarel, were furnislied upon their own premises. Their < ereals were gathered from their fields, threshed and winuowed upon their own barn-floors, and carried to the mill in bags to be converted in Hour, which was kneaded and bilked by the good matrons, in the old fashioned brick ovens, constructed in the immense kitchen chimney-backs.