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Thus it is evident that the Protestant spirit which had 

 caused Guernsey to side with Cromwell and his Ironsides 

 against Charles I. was equally ready to side with William of 

 Orange against James II., and Ave find that in November, 

 1688, on being informed of the landing of the Prince of 

 Orange at Torbay, the Civil Authorities of Guernsey, without 

 even waiting the issue of his enterprise, hurriedly concerted 

 measures with the Senior Anglican officer of the garrison to 

 secure the Island to William's cause. 



They fixed on a day when this officer was in chief com- 

 mand, and then he, in conjunction with the Chief Captain of 

 the Town Militia, ordered a garrison parade of the combined 

 forces. At a concerted signal all the Anglican soldiers, who 

 were in the majority, with their muskets loaded with ball, 

 stepped out of the ranks, and, facing about, aimed at their 

 Roman Catholic comrades, thus compelling them to lay down 

 their arms. Immediately on William's accession Captain 

 Macarty was removed and Captain Godolphin was sent in his 

 place, and Anglicanism was firmly re-established in our 

 midst. 



This long digression has had to be made to explain the 

 feelings of mistrust and dislike that Guernseymen bore to- 

 wards James II., and to supply a motive for a Guernseyman 

 apparently devoting his entire fortune to placing William of 

 Orange on the throne. 



This man was Peter Bailleul, son of Samuel Bailleul, 

 Constable of Saint Andrew in 1625, and grandson of John 

 Bailleul of the Rohais. 



Of his career we know but little ; apparently he only led 

 the ordinary life of the Guernsey farmer or merchant of those 

 days. On April 24th, 1633, he married, at Saint Sampson's 

 Church, Colinette Baudein, daughter of John Baudein and 

 Martha Le Pelley, his wife. Twenty years after, in 1663, he 

 was living in St. Peter-Port on his property, consisting of a 

 house and about four acres of land, situated " sur le bord du 

 Havre de la Piette." But on February 3rd, 1679, we find 

 that this estate had to be sold to pay his debts, which certainly 

 does not look as if he were possessed of boundless wealth, and 

 renders the following Petitions all the more extraordinary and 

 incredible. 



The Calendar of Treasury Papers for 1697-1701-2 (Vol. 

 59, page 262) contains a copy of a Petition of ;i Martha 

 Balliall and Margaret Balliall, daughter of Peter Balliall, 

 Esquire, grandson of the Honourable John Balliall, of Scot- 

 land ; their father served the Crown thirty-three years, and 



