1920.] SOCIAL LIFE Itf GUERNSEY. 271 



But in spite, or perhaps because of, all these pains and 

 penalties, both Ecclesiastical and Civil, we find that a large 

 proportion of the people remained faithful to Rome. 



In June, 1567, Nicolas Paquet, priest of the Island of 

 Jersey (brother to the Guillaume Paquet, Rector of the 

 Castel, who was one of those clergy who condemned Catherine 

 Cauches and her daughters as heretics), and Jean Mourain, 

 priest of the Castel, were cited before Thomas Compton, 

 Bailiff, and the Royal Court, and asked pardon for having 

 said Mass in the Catel Church and in various places in the 

 Island. Pardon was granted to these two priests, but, as 

 Presbyterianism grew in force, later offenders were more 

 harshly treated. 



On April 25th, 1573, Calvin's friend, Guillaume de 

 Beauvoir, who, in the year of St. BartholomeAv 1572, became 

 Bailiff', sentenced Richard Girart — undoubtedly a relation of 

 those Girarts of whom we have already heard — to be flogged 

 through the town for upholding Mass. In July, 1577, Charles 

 Halouvrys, of St. Sampson's, for having attended Mass and 

 gone on a pilgrimage to Normandy, was sent, until the follow- 

 ing Saturday, to be kept in fetters (" les fers es pyeds "), and 

 on bread and water diet, in the " profonde fosse " of Castle 

 Cornet. He also had to pay a fine of £6 13s. 4d., and 

 moreover to do public penance — which meant standing before 

 the choir of the Church during Divine Service, barelegged 

 and barefooted, wrapped in a white sheet, with a lighted taper 

 in his hand — on the following Sunday at St. Peter- 

 Port, and on the succeeding Sunday at St. Sampson's. He 

 was also admonished to renounce such idolatries in future or 

 else to pay a further fine of one hundred escus. In the margin 

 of the book* 1 * is written : " The said fine was paid" (" la dite 

 amende payee "). 



On the 4th March, 1578/9, < 2 > ten Guernseymen, Collas 

 Duquemin, Guillome le Cherf, Pierre Jehan, Collas Berger, 

 John de Bertrand (of the Castel), Collas Bailleul, senior, 

 John Renouf, John Bichard, Denis de Garis and Hellier Le 

 Feyvre, were each fined 18 sols ; and eight of them (probably 

 as many as the cage would hold) were ordered to stand in the 

 cage on the following Saturday, from nine in the morning 

 until three in the afternoon, while Collas Duquemin and John 

 de Bertrand were to be kept in the stocks for the same period ; 

 furthermore, on the following Sunday, they and their wives 

 were ordered to do the public penance I have just described 



(1) Livre d'Amerei et Vers. Tome iii„ page 70a. 



(2) Ibid., p. 165a. 



