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mentioned, it is to be presumed that he was in minor orders 

 only. This contract probably fixes the exact date at which 

 the ancient family of de Garis first came to Guernsey : it is 

 hardly necessary to say that the lists of names in the 

 Dedicace des Eglises are purely fictitious. In 1314 the 

 accounts of the Yale Priory shew a payment of seven livres 

 for repairs of the churches of the Castel and the Vale. In 

 1368 an arrangement was made by which the Prior of the 

 Vale agreed to pay to the Treasurers of the Castel church a 

 yearly rente of £4 10s. tournois, being thereby discharged 

 from the duty of providing for repairs, books, vestments and 

 lights. In 1515., Jean Grirard bequeathed his best breviary 

 to the church of Notre Dame du Castel, and also an angelot, a 

 gold coin worth about eight shillings, "to help towards the 

 building of the chapel of S. Barbara, and for S. Catherine in 

 equal portions, which is in augmentation of the said church." 

 In 1517 a Frerie du Crucifix is mentioned, and in 1569 there 

 was a Cliapelle de Notre Dame de Pitie in the church. The 

 deed of foundation of Elizabeth College shews that its 

 endowment was chiefly taken from the confiscated revenues of 

 confraternities connected with the churches of the Island. 

 Among those named are the Frerie de Jesus de Notre Dame 

 da Cattell, Notre Dame de Pitie du Cattell and the Mass of 

 Notre Dame du Dimanche du Cattell. 



The ancient chapel of S. George, which gives its name 

 to an estate in the parish, is mentioned in the papal Bull of 

 1155. In 1719 the chapel, which had previously been given 

 to the Rector and Churchwardens to serve as a school-house, 

 was restored to Mr. John Guille, of S. George, on condition 

 of his keeping it in repair for the use of the Court of the 

 Fief le Comte, which by ancient custom held its sittings in the 

 chapel. A later Seigneur pulled down the building in order 

 to put an end to a long standing claim of a right of way to 

 the chapel and well of S. George. A chapel of S. Germain 

 stood to the north of S. George, and a chapel of S. Anne 

 may have existed in the locality of that name near the King's 

 Mills. 



