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provide the uecossary fniuls, ^ve (liroctecl that a tax Hhould be 

 levied on all goods bought and sold in the Island, one half 

 being paid by the buyer and the other half by the seller ; the 

 said tax to continue for one year, and its proceeds to be devoted 

 to the building of the said wall. But there are certain re])els 

 among them, who positively refuse to pay it, saying that they 

 already pay us a tax called Aide du Roi, and are therefore free ; 

 but do they not see that this is for their personal siifety (for 

 Avhich they are bound to provide), and is not for our advantage 

 at all ? Wherefore, now, w^e charge you upon your allegiance 

 that, commencing on St. Bartholomew's Day next, you collect 

 that tax for one year, and that you immediately lodge in prison 

 any who shall in any way oppose the said collection." 



The scheme thus was to convert the Town into a citadel. 

 The situations of the gates are still marked, and the names of 

 the towers which guarded its north and south extremities are 

 still borne by the spots on Avhich they stood. The only gate 

 upon the seaside was placed upon a spot to the east of the 

 present south aisle of the Town Church, and the stone marking 

 the spot may be seen against the wall of the old house which is 

 the northernmost of the block occupied in part by the Church 

 of England Temperance Society's Cafe. Starting from this 

 spot and following the line of the Town Wall southward along 

 the seashore, we find that it turned inland near the present 

 Castle Vaudin, from which it climbed the hill near Cliff Street, 

 and then going northward was cut by another gate at the top of 

 Cornet Street. Here, mounting guard over the gate, stood one 

 of the flanking towers, from which the Avail Avas built doAvn the 

 side of the hill to Fountain Street, Avhich it crossed just above 

 Rosemary Lane and here a third gate Avas placed. Going on 

 from this northAvard, across the present market-place and the 

 site of the Commercial Arcade, and along the back of High- 

 street, a fourth gate opened into it at Smith Street, the stone 

 marking Avhich is fixed in the wall between the door of the 

 Post Office and Messrs. Lovell and Cox. From this spot, cutting 

 across the loAver part of Forest Lane, it Avas continued to a fifth 

 and last gate at the bottom of the Pol let, beloAV the house for- 

 merly the residence of the late Bailiff, Sir Edgar MacCulloch. 

 On the sea-shore to the north of this stood the second of 

 the two flanking towers, and from this gate the wall turned 

 southAvard again along the shore to the gate from Avhich we 

 started. Now these gates Avere the original Barrieres of the 

 ToAvn. In 1S40, when considerable changes Avere made in the 

 Guernsey LaAv of Inheritance, the line of the Barrieres Avas 

 much extended, real property situated within this line descend- 

 ing in a different manner from that outside, as is aa^cU knoAvn. 



Of the tAA^o toAvers, the one at the north end was the less 

 important. It Avas called La Tour Gand, but why it Avas 



