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corner of the Rue JBougourt, at the Landes du Marches, 

 Castel, he met Ollivier Le Feyvre and Giret Ogier. In the 

 course of conversation — little thinking that their words would 

 echo through the centuries — Le Feyvre (speaking in French, 

 of course,) said to Ogier, who was evidently discussing the 

 probability of Queen Mary's accession, " Thank God we shall 

 have our Mass back again, though that will vex you, Giret, ,, 

 and added — the news of her Coronation evidently not having 

 yet reached Guernsey — that " he prayed to God to give 

 victory to the Queen." To which Giret Ogier replied that 

 <; he prayed against her, and that our Governor was fighting 

 against her with a great English Lord," and added that " her 

 father (Henry VIII.) had proclaimed her to be illegitimate." 

 Which were disloyal words from a liege subject of the said 

 Queen, more especially from one who, only eight years pre- 

 viously, had been " Procureur de la Messe au nom de Jesus " 

 in the Vale parish. Giret Ogier and two other accomplices, 

 namely Jean Hubert and Noel Regnet, were sent to prison. 

 The two former were pardoned by the Queen on the following 

 10th of January, but Regnet was ordered to leave the Island 

 " par le premier bateau qui s'en yra dehors." 



Sir Peter Meautys also was deposed from his Governor- 

 ship, and that harsh bigot, Sir Leonard Chamberlain, 

 succeeded him in the following December. W 



But if the Protestant Reformers had persecuted with 

 whips, undoubtedly the Catholics retaliated with scorpions. 



On May 27th, 1556, (2 > a woman called Vincente Gosset 

 was brought before Hellier Gosselin, Bailiff, and the Jurats, 

 accused of having stolen a silver cup from the house of 

 Nicholas le Couronnez, of St. Peter-Port. She had then 

 taken the cup to a neighbour called Perotine Massey, and 

 asked her to lend her 6 deniers (6d.) on it. Perotine, suspect- 

 ing the cup to be stolen, and guessing the owner, reported the 

 theft to le Couronnez, and Gosset confessed to the said theft. 

 But Nicholas Carey, as Constable of the Town, when he went 

 to Perotine's house on this matter, saw some pewter vessels 

 there of which he doubted the ownership, so thereupon hauled 

 all the denizens of the house, Perotine herself, Catherine 



(1) Sir Leonard Chamberlain, son of Sir Edmund Chamberlain, of Sherborne, 

 Dorset, married no less than four times. His son, Francis, was associated with 

 him in the Governorship of Guernsey, and another son, George, in the Governorship 

 of Alderney, which Sir Leonard had been granted in fee farm by Queen Mary. John 

 Chamberlain, son of Francis, succeeded to Alderney at Sir Leonard's death, but 

 was dispossessed on suspicion of conspiracy with French Roman Catholics to 

 restore the islands to Roman Catholicism and to France. George Chamberlain, 

 who fled to Ghent during the Protestant persecutions under Queen Elizabeth, was 

 the father of Dr. George Chamberlain, Catholic Bishop of Ypres in 1626. 



(2) Livre de Jugements and Records, T. 1; and Foxe's "Book of Martyrs," 

 Ed. 164L 



