A FORGOTTEN EPISODE. 



BY MISS EDITH CAREY. 



These are some notes on a elaim made on the British 

 Government by a comparatively unknown family, long extinct 

 in the Island, called the Bailleuls. 



From the earliest times the Bailleuls were connected 

 with St. Andrew's Parish, where their old house, named in 

 Norman fashion " Les Bailleuls," after them, still stands. 



In the Assize Roll of 1303 — in the days when each 

 Parish had its own representative Jurats, now embodied in 

 our Douzaines — among the Jurats of Saint Andrew was 

 Petrus le Baillol ; and in the Assize Roll of 1323 Petrus le 

 Baillol and Petronilla his wife are mentioned. The main 

 branch of the family remained in Saint Andrew's Parish for 

 many generations, but some of the collateral branches migrated 

 to the Castel, to Saint Saviour, and to Saint Peter-Port. 



Of the Castel branch the best known representative was 

 Nicholas Bailleul of Les Landes, living in the days of Queen 

 Elizabeth. In December, 1598, he married Marie de Saus- 

 marez, daughter of Mr. John de Sausmarez, and their only 

 son Nicholas married Martha Bonamy, but died soon after, 

 leaving one only child, Marie ; while his widow married 

 Francois Le Pelley of the Forest as her second husband. 

 Marie Bailleul must have possessed a good deal of charm, 

 though possibly some of it was due to a substantial amount of 

 dower; for, to the practical Guernseymen of the seventeenth 

 century " les beaux' yeux de sa cassette " generally outweighed 

 mere flesh and blood prettiness in a prospective bride. 



Be that as it may, we find by Elie Brevint's gossiping 

 Note Book that she was engaged to Isaac Careye, eldest son 

 of Mr. Peter Careye. This engagement however fell through 

 somehow — although in those days a betrothal was hedged 

 about with almost as many ceremonies and regarded as almost 

 as binding as a marriage — and we find that she slipped away 

 to Saint Sampson's Church and was there clandestinely mar- 

 ried to the Reverend James Guille of the Rohais, an Oxford 

 graduate and a well-known Protestant minister. They had 

 four children, and then he died, and, after a shoft mourning, 



