248 SOCIAL LIFE IN GUERNSEY. 



Above " Neuve Ville " and the Truchot, on what is now 

 the grounds o£ Elizabeth College, stood the Friary of the 

 Cordeliers or Franciscan Friars, founded by Richard II. A 

 portion of the entrance arch still abuts from what is now 

 called "Chestnut Hall." In 1565 this land, which had lapsed 

 to the Crown at the Reformation, was given by Queen 

 Elizabeth for the endowment of Elizabeth College, and here it 

 was that the College was first held, the nave serving as a 

 schoolroom and the chancel being occupied by the Master. It 

 was connected with the Town by a road called " La Rue 

 Cache," or " Chasse Vassal," which led to the Town gate in 

 Smith Street, north of that portion of the Le Marchant Estate 

 now covered by St. Paul's Chapel and St. James' Church. 

 The other means of access was by the road, now known as 

 "Hospital Lane," but then called " La Rue Maupertuis," or 

 " Evil Hole," which led from the " grand maison du Truchot " 

 to its entrance gate. 



These Friars, who were buried in the adjacent cemetery, 

 from which they were separated by the " Rouge Rue," (1) pro- 

 bably officiated at the Chapelle de Lorette which stood near 

 Candie, on or near what is still called Loretto Place. 



Beyond that again, in a field on the Mon Plaisir Estate, 

 south of the lane which leads from the Rue Rozel to the back 

 of the Rocquettes, was the Chapel of St. Jacques, to which 

 " La Porte " and " Rouge Huis " are conjectured to have 

 been ancient gateways. Here stood an image, possibly another 

 stone figure like those at the Castel and St. Martin's Churches, 

 known in post - Reformation times as < " l'ydolle de St. 

 Jacques." 



With the exception of a few detached farm houses and 

 cottages, all the remaining neighbourhoods of the Town, 

 Hauteville, Havelet, Vauvert — literally then a " green 

 valley " — the Grange, consisted of orchards, fields and 

 furzebrakes. Here and there were megalithic monuments ; 

 a menhir," La Pierre de la Varde," stood somewhere on the 

 present Montville Estate ; another, " La Pierre del'Hyyreuse," 

 on the site where Queen Victoria's Tower now stands. It 

 was removed and a windmill erected on its site in the sixteenth 

 century. La Pierre Percee was on the estate which still bears 

 its name, and a dolmen or " Trepied " stood somewhere near 

 the top of Forest Lane. Besides these were numberless other 



(1) Percage of 1573. " Thomas le Marchant en son gardin de devant la porte du 

 College joy gn ant au gardin notre souverayne Dame la Royne pardevers le vouest 

 de la Rue de Maupertuys. Item. En ses mesnages du Vaux lorens comprenant le 

 courtil de desus la Rouge Rue. 



James Petevin en son gardin au long de la Rouge Rue joynant au mesnage 

 Thomas le Marchant par devers le vouest." 



