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straightway released from Purgatory and received into Para- 

 dise. Five Churches in Pome enjoyed what were known as 

 " privileged altars " — at one, five Masses were required, at 

 another, thirty ; in the crypt of St. Sebastian one visit was 

 enough, and John Bonamy gives a list of nineteen persons for 

 whom he caused a Mass to be sung at this altar during his 

 visit to Pome. They were Pierre Bonamy and Marguerite 

 Patrys, his father and mother ; a group of landowners in 

 St. Martin's parish, neighbours and probably kinsfolk of the 

 Bonamys : these were, John Jehan, Collas Thoume, Collas and 

 Jeanne Le Mesurier (probably his brother and sister-in-law), 

 Janette Tardif, and Collas Mauger. He also included 

 Nicolas Fashion, who had been Bailiff of Guernsey from 1481 

 to 1488 ; Richard Ettur and Guillaume Ozanne, both land- 

 owners in the Castel parish ; Thomas de la Court, Seigneur of 

 Trinity Manor in Jersey and also a Jurat in our Poyal 

 Court ; Perotyne Henry, daughter of Francois Henry and 

 Perotyne de St. Pierre, thus a granddaughter respectively of 

 the pious founders of the Chapels of St. Apolline and of 

 St. Julien ; the wife of Collas EfFart, who was probably 

 Perotine, sister of Dominique Perrin his partner in La 

 Pitie ; and the wife of Jehannet Baudein ; Thomas 

 Bunell ; Collas Garin ; Pierre Brehaut des Hy velins ; and 

 Collas du Pre. 



In the year 1505 he records that his daughter Perotine 

 was married to Thomas Carey, son of Laurence, and 

 it is interesting to see what a daughter's dower consisted 

 of in those days. 



He says he bought her two yards and a half of fur made 

 of weasel skins (fourrure de moustille) at thirteen gros of 

 silver per yard ; a yard and half of serge at twenty-two silver 

 ettelins a yard ; a hood for fifteen silver gros. He also gave 

 her a new feather bed and quilt ; a poker (?) " point " and a 

 shovel ; a silver knife of Ferrara make ; a clock which had 

 been given to him by her future mother-in-law, Laurence 

 Carey's wife ; twelve spools of wool ; a cow one year 

 old ; nine yards of linen for her sheets ; a warming pan ; and 

 one large dish and two porringers with handles, probably of 

 pewter. 



We can tell what John Bonamy's principal worldly goods 

 consisted of by the numerous drafts of wills which are scat- 

 tered through the book. In them we see that, besides his 

 lands and his money, he leaves to his children his harness, 

 carts, ploughs, livestock, spurs, farming implements, sheets, 

 silver rings (" annoz d'argent "), pots, pans, plates and por- 



