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their relations without either Priest or Deacon following, and 

 that nothing was said or sung except in the Church : that 

 Bandouin (or " the Norman " as he is scornfully described) 

 administered Communion without surplice or hood, silently 

 giving the Bread and the Cup to those sitting round a table, and 

 inveighed on those who remain of the Island Rectors (l because 

 they administered the Sacraments according to the Elizabethan 

 Prayer Book : that they who pen these words cannot receive 

 or hear any service except what is contrary to the Queen's own 

 Prayer Book. So that, rather than be constrained to that, 

 they desire to quit the country and live in England under a 

 steadier and better Government : that this is a great resort of 

 Strangers banished from France and they are tolerated by the 

 Dean and his boon companions : that the said Dean and others 

 endeavour to subvert and dissolve all the ancient laws and 

 customs of the island and, in many cases, assume the adminis- 

 tration of justice : that the said Dean and others have laid hold 

 of all the plate, jewels and ornaments of the Churches, and 

 sold the rentes and obits to their own use : that the said Dean, 

 having arrived in the Island three years previously in a very 

 needy condition, having only been granted the Church of the 

 Friars, has now obtained two parishes (St. Martin's and St. 

 Pierre du Bois) a Priory (Lihou) and the Deanery." To 

 which the Petitioners drily add " For all that he can neither 

 preach nor teach." <2) 



The betrayal of the Islanders' loyalty to their faith came, 

 as it nearly always does come, from that Apostle who holds 

 the bag, so we find that the spoils of the Churches proved so 

 profitable to the Governors and the new Clergy that the 

 Authorities, both of Jersey and Guernsey, united to petition 

 Queen Elizabeth to formally licence the Presbyterian form of 

 worship in the Islands, which she did by a letter from Council 

 dated August 7th, 1565, allowing the newly introduced Services 

 of Preaching and Administration to be continued at St. Helier 

 and St. Peter-Port, on condition that the Liturgy should be 

 used in the country parishes. 3 *) But this condition was not 

 long observed; other Huguenot Clergy were introduced, French 

 refugees abounded and, by the end of 1565 the whole island was 

 outwardly brought into thorough conformity, both in doctrine 

 and discipline with the French or Calvinistic Reformed Church. 



We can imagine what Guernseymen, both laity and clergy, 

 must have felt at the property of their Churches and the pious 



(1) Seven of the old Cures were still in possession of their parishes in 1572. St. 

 Peter-Port and St. Martin's had " Miiristres." (Lee MSS.). 



(2) De Havilland MSS. 



(3) Berry's History of Guernsey, p. 2ii. 



