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see the crovsses they shoulde thynke on Hym that deyed on 

 ye cioysse, and worshippe Hym above al thyng." (Wynken 

 de Worde, "Dives et pauper" 1496.) 



In Guernsey, as will be seen by the appended list, numerous 

 wayside crosses existed before the Reformation, but as might 

 be expected after the Calvinist rule during the latter half of 

 the 16th and the earl 3^ part of the 17th centuries, very few 

 remains of them have come down to our times. The only one 

 remaining in its original position is " La Croix au Baillif." 

 This is simply a Tau cross, engraved upon a small flat stone, 

 now forming one of the kerb stones of the footpath near the 

 corner of the cross road leading to the Catel church at the top 

 of the Bailifl''s Cross hill. As this stone had become identified 

 in the popular mind with the legend of Gaultier de la Salle, 

 the "■ wicked bailiff," it was probably looked upon by our 

 reformers more as an historical than as a superstitious object, 

 and to this may owe its preservation. 



The remains of several other crosses are recorded by the 

 late Mr. F. C. Lukis as still existing in the middle of the last 

 century, the most perfect being now in the garden of the late 

 Captain Lukis, The Grange. It was found by Mr. Lukis in 

 a pigstye at Les Padins, St. Saviour's, when looking for the 

 remains of another said to have been in that neighbourhood. 

 It consists of a square base, tapering slightly to the top, with 

 rounded corners deeply chamfered for about three inches down 

 from the top. In the square socket of this base is fixed a stone 

 shaft about 4 feet high, which is square for about 10 inches at 

 the foot and is then reduced to an octagonal. On the front 

 face of the square portion of the shaft is a square-headed 

 recessed panel, surrounded by a much weather-worn rounded 

 moulding. As the lower portion of this moulding is completely 

 hidden in the socket of the base it seems rather doubtful 

 whether this shaft really belonged to it, and this seems even 

 more doubtful from the fact that while the base is of grey 

 Guernsey granite, the shaft is of the usual coarse-grained 

 yellowish pink Chausey or Cherbourg granite so frequently 

 used for the building of our churches and houses in the middle 

 ages. It is also possible that the shaft, in its present position, 

 is reversed and that like some Cornish crosses it was originally 

 an octagonal shaft with a square head, perhaps pinnacled at 

 the top, having a crucifix carved on the recessed panel of the 

 front face, or affixed to it. 



Mr. Lukis also mentions in his notes that at the beginning 

 of the last century the base of another cross was still to be 

 seen, in situ, on a waste piece of ground near the Salt Pans, at 



