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Chapel which he had lately erected on his estate, subject, 

 however, to the sanction of the Sovereign as Lord Paramount. 

 The Statute of Mortmain, the object of which was to prevent 

 the accumulation of landed property in the hands of the 

 clergy, had been recently re-enacted with very stringent 

 clauses, and Nicholas Henry applied to the Crown for the 

 necessary permission, which was granted by King Richard II. 

 in July 1394. The Charter, which is preserved among the 

 Records of the Island at the Grejfe, authorizes Nicholas 

 Henry to endow the Chapel of Salute Marie de la Perrelle^ 

 for the purpose of maintaining a chaplain who was to cele- 

 brate a daily mass for ever, for the safety of the said Nicholas 

 Henry, and his wife Philippa, for their souls after they should 

 have departed this life, and for the souls of all their ancestors, 

 benefactors and Christian people generally. The Charter 

 given by the Abbey exempts three vcrgees of land, attached 

 by the founder to the Chapel, from payment of all dues on 

 the condition of his charging the whole of his property with 

 an annual rent for ever of one bushel of wheat. The Royal 

 Charter describes the endowment as consisting of land of the 

 value of twenty sols annually. Besides the three vergees of 

 land, wdiich it is not uninteresting to note are described as 

 being bounded on the w^est by the property of Guillaume 

 Blondel, and on the east by that of Thomas Dumaresq, both 

 of which families are still land owners in the district, Nicholas 

 Henry also gave to the Chapel an annual wheat-rent of Four 

 Quarters due on a piece of ground adjoining. The Chapel 

 once established, other gifts would doubtless be made to it 

 from time to time by pious individuals w^ho took part in the 

 daily service. Thus we find that in May 1485, Johan de 

 Lisle, son of Colas, and Nicolas de Lisle, son of Pierre, 

 acknowledged in the presence of the Bailiff and Jurats that 

 they ow^ed jointly the yearly rent of a hen to the Chaplain of 

 Notre Dame de la Perrelle ; and the latter acknowledged, 

 moreover, that an annual rent of one bushel of wheat was also 

 due by him. On the 2nf] of March 1492, Henry le TeUier 

 of St. Saviour's also acknowledged that he owed two bushels 

 of wheat-rent to the Chaplain, who, at both those dates, was 

 Sire Thomas Henry, or, as he is styled in the earlier deed, 

 Dom Thomas, a title which gives reason to suppose him to 

 have been a Benedictine Monk. It is more than likely that 

 he belonged to the family of the original founder of the 

 Chapel, and it is not improbable that he was his grandson. 



The identity of the Chapel still existing with that erected 

 and endowed by Nicholas Henry might well be questioned, 



