122 QUAKERISM IX GUERNSEY. 



As Peter Le Laeheur signed the marriage certificate of 

 Henry Cumber and Mary, daughter of Thomas Gallienne, 

 Quakers, in the Guernsey meeting-house, on the 29th day of 

 the 10th month, 1819, and there said he was 84 years old, it is 

 obvious that this part of the Memoirs was written in 1815. 



A great number of Friends signed the above certificate, 

 amongst them Thomas Andre Naftel. The actual marriage 

 ceremony seems to have been very simple. Henrj Cumber, 

 taking Mary Gallienne by the hand, declared : " Friends, I 

 take this my friend, Mary Gallienne, to be my wife, promising 

 through Divine assistance to be unto her a loving and faithful 

 husband until it shall please the Lord by death to separate 

 us." And the same Mary Gallienne did then and there in the 

 said Assembly declare : " Friends, I take this my friend, 

 Henry Cumber, to be my husband, promising through Divine 

 assistance to be unto him a loving and faithful wife, until it 

 shall please the Lord by death to separate us." They then 

 signed the certificate and 38 witnesses also signed. 



The bride's father, Thomas Gallienne, had not been 

 treated with the same leniency which the earlier Quakers had 

 experienced. The story goes that at the time when Napoleon 

 was invading Europe orders were given that all the male 

 inhabitants of Guernsey were to present themselves at military 

 drill, as it was supposed that the Island might be invaded. 

 Thomas Gallienne, however, in loyalty to his faith, refused to 

 come, and was imprisoned in Castle Cornet. It is stated that 

 while there he was wheeled in a cart up and down the Castle 

 Cornet yard with a gun strapped in front of him before a 

 company of soldiers, and then taken back to prison. At 

 this time (1799-1800) there were a considerable number of 

 Russian soldiers stationed at Guernsey, men who had been 

 opposing Napoleon in the Low Countries and were conse- 

 quently Allies of the British Crown. These men appear to 

 have been rather unruly, and while Thomas Gallienne was in 

 prison some of them entered his grocer's shop, where his 

 wife was left in charge, and ate up all her tallow candles. 



But we must go back to the little band of pioneers, who 

 we find — according to the Records of the Society of Friends — 

 applying, in June, 1786, for membership of the Fraternity, as 

 follows : — 



"Friends, by the light and Spirit of Christ being 



