58 GUERNSEY DOMESTIC PLATE. 



will, dated March, 1697 (OS.) of Miss Judith Careye, 

 daughter of Mr. Thomas Careye, Seigneur of Blanchelande 

 and of Judith Le Marchant his wife, and great-grand- 

 daughter of the Nicolas Careye whose Will I have already 

 quoted ; after leaving her niece Jeanne her black satin 

 robe and her red satin petticoat, she leaves her nephew Pierre 

 Careye " une grande tasse d'argent ou dans le fond est 

 represente St. Nicolas " (thereby clearly indicating that it 

 dated from P re-Reformation times, and therefore, probably 

 the cup given to her ancestor by Sire Pierre Careye), six 

 silver spoons unmarked, and a large " coupe a biere " marked 

 T. C. on the side, which had probably belonged to her father. 



It is generally considered that the two-handled cups 

 which we now call " christening cups " were the " coupes a 

 biere," and the cups without handles the " coupes a vin," and 

 this theory is borne out by the fact that on August 1st, 1666, 

 Benoist Le Lievre bequeathed to Marie Girard his niece " ma 

 petite ronde coupe d'argent a vin " ; while in 1693 Marie 

 Mauger, wife of Edward Cotton, an Englishman, bequeathed 

 to her nephew and godson Edouard Mauger, a " coupe 

 d'argent a biere qui a deux auses et marque E. C. M." 



Some of the bequests of these wine and beer cups give 

 somewhat intimate details, thus : Claire Blanche, widow of 

 Jean Noel, of Sark, leaves to her "tres honore amy, Monsieur 

 Jean de Sausmarez, Senior, comme une marque de gratitude, 

 une couppe a biere d'argent de poids de douze onces," which 

 had formerly belonged to her husband. 



On January 21st, 1670, Dame Alice Fashin (daughter of 

 George Fashin, Seigneur d'Anneville, and widow of Pierre 

 Henry of La Haye du Puits) bequeathed to her daughter 

 Elizabeth, wife of Nicolas Ozanne of the de Lisles, a silver 

 cup, or ten ecus, its value in money ; and directs that her son 

 Pierre Henry should engrave her daughter's name on the said 

 cup ; she also left £30 tournois to her son-in-law Nicolas 

 Ozanne, desiring that for the money he should make two 

 silver cups for his sons Nicolas and Jean and engrave their 

 names upon them, which certainly seems to indicate that he 

 was one of the early silversmiths of the island. 



The following will give some further details of the money 

 value of silver plate in the 17th century, but we must 

 remember that money was then worth six or seven times more 

 than it is now. 



This will is dated 3rd February, 1 672, and was made by 

 Samuel Noel, son of Jean and Claire Blanche. He was the 

 successful innkeeper of St. Peter-Port in his day. Among 



