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should now describe it) of a Regiment " consisting of eleven 

 companies of trayned bands of souldiers in the Island of 

 Guernsey " (1 > of which Christopher Hatton was Colonel. 



But the hatreds and jealousies engendered in the Island 

 during the long period of Civil War were not to be allayed in 

 a moment. As a type of the inquisitorial m inner in which 

 men's lightest speeches were reported to the English Govern- 

 ment I will quote the following document from the English 

 Record Office : " Certificate of certain seditions and factious 

 words spoken by Mr. Bonamy of Guernsey, April, 1663." 



" At the marriage of Mr. Nich. Carey with Mr. Havilland's 



daughter in Mr. Havilland's house at dinner time, there being 



some discourse about Government, Mr. Bonamy speaking in 



favour of Commonwealths and against Monarchy said that 



Rome had more prosperity under a Commonwealth than under 



a Monarchy, and that the Monarchy had been the undoing 



of it. And said moreover what had befallen the children of 



Israel by having a King. 



Witnessed by Mr. Deane < 2 > ] 



Mr. Peter Carey, (. ,,. . , 

 ivr t . ,™™ > Ministers. 



Mr. JANNON, j 



Mr. Salmon, ) 



Amias Andros now being settled in peace as Bailiff of 

 Guernsey and living at his Manor House at Sausmarez, Ave 

 must now turn our attention to the career of his son Edmund, 

 or " Mun " as he was called in his family circle. 



Edmund was born in London on December 6th, 1637, at 

 a time when the troubles of Charles I. were coming to a 

 crisis. His father soon realized that neither in Republican 

 England nor Puritan Guernsey was there any opening for the 

 son of a loyal Cavalier, so sent him to learn the profession of 

 Arms under his uncle, Sir Robert Stone, who was then at the 

 Hague in attendance on the exiled Court of Bohemia. 



Edmund entered his uncle's troop of Cavalry and served 

 under Prince Henry of Nassau from April, 1656 until 1659, 

 and especially distinguished himself in the campaign against 

 Sweden waged by the combined forces of Holland and Den- 

 mark, which terminated in the total defeat of the Swedish 

 Army in the Danish Island of Funen. 



The Continental Wars of the 17th Century were a hard 

 school for a boy. Men did not shrink from inflicting needless 

 torture, and were not daunted by the sight of revolting 

 cruelties. Probably much of the hardness and want of 

 sympathy men resented in Edmund Andros's later career 

 may be put down to the training of his early years. 

 (1) GuiUe MSS. (2) Dean de Sausmarez. 



