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taken to the pillory — which stood where the Victoria Hotel 

 now stands — to which one of her ears was nailed. When she 

 was torn away from it she was further ordered to be 

 banished from the island and " d'estre myse soubs le pleine 

 de Mars." This meant that she was taken to the shore 

 to the furthest limit reached by the highest springtide 

 of the year — the March tide — and there would have 

 to wait for a passing ship bound either for England or 

 Jersey to take her off, maimed and destitute — for all her goods 

 were confiscated by the Crown — to start life again in a strange 

 land. 



Here, according to all modern procedure, by the con- 

 demnation of Gosset, and the acquittal of the charge made 

 against Catherine Cauches and her daughters, the case should 

 have ended. But, unfortunately, the neighbours, while 

 declaring them " not guiltie of that they were charged with," 

 added, " saving only to the commands of Holy Church they 

 had not been obedient.* And thus, on the entirely new issue 

 of their non-attendance at Church they were returned to the 

 prison at the Castle and officially handed over by the Bailiff 

 and Jurats to the Dean and the Ecclesiastical Court to deal 

 with. 



The Dean, the last of the Roman Catholic Deans in our 

 history, was a Jerseyman, Jacques Amy, son of Jean Amy, 

 senior, of the Rue de Grouville, in Jersey. Ordained by the 

 Bishop of Coutances as a Catholic Priest in 1525, he was 

 nominated Rector of St. Saviour's, Guernsey, in succession to 

 Sire Pierre' Careye on the 19th September, 1547, and, three 

 weeks later, on the recommendation of Sir Peter Meautis, the 

 Governor, he was made Dean of Guernsey. He evidently 

 had either openly connived or passively acquiesced in the 

 Protestant reforms and persecutions of the six years, 1547 to 

 1553 of Edward VI.'s reign, and he must have felt that his 

 orthodoxy must have been considered doubtful not only by 

 our bigotted new Governor, Sir Leonard Chamberlain, but by 

 the Bishop of Coutances himself, who probably was making 

 enquiries as to what his Dean had done to maintain the true 

 faith in Guernsey during the late apostacy. So he and his 

 clergy evidently jumped at the opportunity not only of 

 " getting their own back," but of proving their zeal and fer- 

 vour to their ecclesiastical superiors. Consequently, although 

 the three women when brought before the Ecclesiastical Court 

 — which then sat above the N.E. aisle of the Town Church — 

 " being examined of their faith concerning the ordinals of the 



* Foxe's '* Martyrs." 



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