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Ozanne, and Jean Marquy were all fined for having gone with 

 him to the Chapel of St. George and there having " foui et 

 rompu la terre et murailles chercher pour des tresors." (1) 



All this time we must remember that the Islands were still 

 in the Diocese of Coutances, and the Bishop, not having 

 received his tithes and obits for about seven years began to 

 think that it was time to protest. He appealed to the Privy 

 Council, who, on April 13th, 1565, wrote to the Island 

 Authorities saying they found his request " very reasonable" 

 and ordering that " all such duties may from henceforth be 

 paid." But, as the greater part of these dues had already been 

 appropriated by the Governor and the Dean, no notice was 

 taken of this order. So, on October 26th, 1565, the Bishop 

 summoned After " comme soy disant Doyen, et cure de St. 

 Martin et de St. Pierre-du-Bois " to produce his commission 

 and proofs of Canonical Institution. To this order After — 

 prompted it is thought by Sara via, his curate and protege, and 

 a much cleverer man than himself — declined to submit, claiming 

 to have been appointed Dean by the Queen herself and the 

 Episcopal Authorities of the Kingdom, and declined to discuss 

 the question unless the Bishop himself renounced the Pope and 

 all foreign jurisdiction and took the oath of Allegiance to Queen 

 Elizabeth as titular head of the Church. Naturally enough 

 the Bishop declined, and on this plea, three years later — in 

 1568 — the Islands were definitely severed from Coutances and 

 attached to the See of Winchester. In 1568 After and two 

 jurats were imprisoned by the Governor for insubordination, 

 and we find in November of that year the Bishop of Winchester 

 writing to Cecil on their behalf. That After's claims were 

 unfounded is proved by the fact that not till June 14th, 1569, 

 did the Bishop of Winchester give him his commission as 

 Dean, and then shewed how little he knew about his new 

 jurisdiction by including both Jersey, which of course, was a 

 separate Decanate, and Chaussey, which belonged to France, 

 in his administration. 



However, Presbyterianism — which did not acknowledge 

 Bishops and Deans — proved too strong for After, and by 1575 

 he was apparently no longer exercising his functions. But- 

 even then the authorities at Winchester never found out that 

 the Island no longer recognised their institutions, for on June 

 19th, 1585, the Bishop instituted Richard Wigmore, brother 

 of the Bailiff, and nephew of Sir Thomas Leighton, the 



(1) A patent, passed under the great seal in 1617, was " to allow Mary Middle- 

 more, one of the maydes of honour to our dearest consort Queen Anne [of 

 Denmark] and her deputies, power and authority to enter into the Abbeys of 

 St. Alban's, Glastonbury, St. Edmundsbury, and Ramsey, there to dig and search 

 after treasure supposed to be hidden in such places." ...... 



