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ringers of pewter, prayer books and psalter, clocks, silver cups 

 and silver spoons, halebards and cross bows, forty shields made 

 of betony, worth two ecus (an ecu was worth three francs). (2 > 

 To his daughter was to be given her mother's mantle ; his 

 own clothes (" drapeaux ") were to be given to the poor, 

 except his three "bonnets" (probably the flat velvet caps 

 worn by the men of that day), which his children were to 

 have ; and his last will directed that his fields on either side 

 of the Bailiffs Cross should be let to a priest for seven years 

 on condition that he said a weekly mass for his soul. John 

 Bonamy died about 1510. 



We will now pass on to another original manuscript book 

 of which the earliest entry is dated 1505, and the latest 1571. 

 It is known as the " Manuscrit Girard," although it was begun 

 by Sire Denis Ozanne, priest, and only passed into the hands 

 of Jean Girard by his marriage with Thomasse Ozanne, Denis 

 Ozanne's sister. 



Like the Bonamy manuscript the entries consist princi- 

 pally of drafts of wills, accounts, and such like memoranda, 

 the earliest dated entry in the book being a will by Denis 

 Ozanne, dated 1505, which was subsequently superseded by 

 one of 1507, although in both wills he leaves the residue of his 

 goods to his two sisters. 



Sire Denis Ozanne was another of the pious Guernsey- 

 men who went on a pilgrimage. His journey was over that 

 famous road to holiness, the well-worn way to the great moun- 

 tain shrine of St. Jago or St. James di Compostella. Dedi- 

 cated by the Spaniards on the site of a menhir as a 

 substitute for that glorious Jerusalem which, owing to 

 the presence of infidel invaders upon their peninsula, 

 they were themselves forbidden to visit, the site acquired 

 a renown for singular sanctity and was thronged with 

 pilgrims from all parts of Christendom. John Bonamy 

 noted that, in 1501, he lent to John Le Fevre, of the 

 Castel, " ung couronne au soleil por aller a St. Jacques." 

 It is possible that John Le Fevre and Denis Ozanne went 

 together. Before starting on this long and toilsome pil- 

 grimage Denis made an inventory of the goods belonging to 

 him, namely : — One bed, with curtains, coverlet, tester and 

 pillow all complete ; one Flemish chest, and a small metal 

 coffer, probably similar to the one now in the Greffe, which 

 belonged to the Fief St. Michel and in which the Fief Seal 

 and the title deeds were kept ; one table complete and three 

 benches ; a little trestle and two bashins ; a metal pot and 



(2) In 1566 an " escu soil" was worth six shillings sterling. (Livre d'Amerci et 

 Vers). 



