Unity in Multiformity: The Minutes of the Coetus of London, 1575 and the Consistory Minutes of the Italian Church of London, 1570-1591.(Review)

Edited by O. Boersma and A. J. Jelsma. (Publications of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Quarto Ser., 59.) Pp. x + 278-London: Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1997. [pounds]12. 0 906100 25 9

This publication makes available several interesting sources for the historian of the London exile communities. The Coetus was the monthly meeting of the ministers and elders of the French, Dutch and Italian communities in London; its purpose was to hear appeals from individual churches as well as to discuss matters of mutual concern. The minutes comprise ninety-seven entries between 1575 to 1598 but often months could go by without an entry. Ten …