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had to set a good example, but to bring to justice such of the 

 parishioners who stayed away from Church on any pretext 

 whatever. 



And yet, when we come back to the Girart Manuscript, 

 which was resumed by Guillaume Girart and his son Jean, 

 after a lapse of 35 years, we find that Guillaume, who made 

 his will as late as May, 1569, left his soul to God and to the 

 " glorieuse Sainte Marie et tous les Saints et Saintes de 

 Paradis," and his will was witnessed by " Sire Guillaume 

 Pacquet, Curey." Also, in the handwriting of his son Jean, 

 who, in 1567, was made Clerk to the Catel Church, W we find 

 the French translation of the Absolution of Queen Elizabeth's 

 Prayer Book as well as of the Lord's Prayer, under which is 

 defiantly written by " Rollin Henry, bon compaignon," who, 

 having found the book open on his neighbour's table had 

 scribbled — perhaps as a subtle reproach to his comrade — the 

 Catholic " Ave Maria gratia," which the insular clergy had 

 intoned for so many centuries. 



Here I must close what has been, I am afraid, too long a 

 lecture. I must leave for another time the doings of the 

 Presbyterian regime, the Acts of their Colloque, as well as 

 the witchcraft prosecutions and the many political alarums 

 and excursions of the sixteenth century. 



Trivial as some of these old notes and documents may 

 seem, faded and brown as the old writing has become, yet they 

 remind us, not only of the intolerance and bitterness which 

 happily has passed away, but that others have sat where we 

 sit, and have suffered more, I hope, than any of us will ever 

 be called upon to suffer, and that we also are, after all, but 

 tenants and wayfarers " in that old inn we call the World." 



(1) " Pour servir a l'Eglise ; saver est, pour entandre es cloches, pour faire les 

 sytations, pour aydier a faire les espousailles, pour aydier a dyre le service des 

 mors, et pour fayre les afayres de l'Eglise, quant mestyer:en sera." 



