410 THE CASTEL CHURCH. 



passage in the notebook of Jean Grirard. Gnillaume Pacquet 

 or Parquet was rector as early as 1550 and at least as late as 

 1572. By that time the Huguenot discipline had been 

 introduced into the Town and S. Martin's. The first 

 Presbyterian minister of the Castel was Nicolas Effart in 

 1584 : he left to go to Jersey and was succeeded in 1585 by 

 Jean du Quesnel or Chesne, who retired to Flanders. In 

 1500 Jacques Roullees had charge, and in 1597 Jeremie 

 Valpy. In 1605 there was no settled minister but Pierre 

 Painsec preached, and in 1606 Dominique Sicard, of S. 

 Martin's, officiated. Pierre Painsec returned and was more 

 or less responsible for the services till 1629. In 1647 Thomas 

 Le Marchant was Pasteur. In 1655 the rector was Charles 

 de la Marche, a man of great learning and attainments. He 

 was sent by Cromwell with Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke on a 

 mission to Sweden in 1653 and 1656, and resigned the living 

 in 1662 on the re-establishment of Episcopacy. In 1657 a 

 new pulpit was erected and the " table " which had been in 

 front of the pulpit was removed to the north side of the 

 Church. In 1662 Dr. Pierre Salomon, probably a French 

 priest, became rector, and was succeeded in 1673 by Jacques 

 Guille, who died in 1686. He was followed by Jacques de 

 Brissac, Sieur des Loges, who died in 1689, from which date 

 till 1729 Moise Faudrier was rector. Isaac Babault, a 

 connection of Mrs. Barbauld, held the living till his death in 

 1752, and in that year was succeeded by Jean Metivier. In 

 1758 Andre Migault was transferred to the Castel from 

 Torteval. He resigned in 1784 to go to S. Saviour's, where 

 he died in 1797. In 1784 Nicholas Peter Dobree was 

 appointed and resigned in 1832. Havilland Durand held the 

 living from 1832 to 1843, James Maingy or Mainguy till 1860, 

 Frederick Charles Carey till 1876, then Osmond Carey, 

 Frederick William Mann and Peter T. Mignot. 



From ancient records at Coutances and St. L6, I have 

 gathered some interesting facts relating to the history of the 

 Castel parish. In 1251, the Abbot of Mont-St-Michel 

 received all the tithes, amounting to £300 tournois, together 

 with half the burial offerings. The Rector took the rest, 

 amounting to £40. These figures shew that the Castel was 

 the richest parish in Guernsey, for the tithes of S. Peter-Port 

 were worth only £50, S. Andrew's £40, S. Peter's £U0, and 

 the Vale £60. In 1309, the Abbot sold certain lands, 

 rentes, &c, and a field called De Contente Change or Neiif Clos 

 to Peter de Garis, clerk, a merchant of Gascony, for a yearly 

 rent of 60 sols tournois. As P. de Garis' children are 



