78 GUERNSEY CHURCH PLATE. 



We have no specimens of the plate in use at this period, 

 but we have it recorded that amongst the Town Church Plate 

 melted down in 1847 was a large dish, which had replaced 

 cups presented by Jean de Quetteville, senior, and James and 

 Judith de Beauvoir, and there were also two cups presented by 

 the same James and Judith de Beauvoir. James de Beauvoir 

 died in 1607 and these cups replaced the ones demanded by the 

 Parishioners of St. Peter-Port from the Royal Commissioners 

 then in the Island, "the silver cups belonging to the Ad- 

 ministration of the Sacrament of Holy Communion taken 

 about the time of the seizing of the Parish Grounds," (Royal 

 Commissioners' Report, 1 607 ), and which were irretrievably lost. 

 Jean de Quetteville, senior, was one of the heads of the Pres- 

 byterian party and was Bailiff of Guernsey from 1631 to 1644. 



We have it further recorded that by the will of Thomas 

 de Lisle, dated 1627, he bequeathed to the Church of St. 

 Pierre-du-Bois his silver cup which he had been accustomed 

 to lend for the administration of Holy Communion, and we 

 shall see in the notice of the plate of that parish that a cup 

 dated 1781 was stated to be his gift probably replacing the ori- 

 ginal one, the original inscription being, as was often the case, 

 copied on the newer vessel. 



(3) The Episcopalian Epoch. Towards the end of the 

 seventeenth century, the various parishes appear to have pro- 

 vided themselves with silver vessels of the same pattern 

 throughout the island. We find the cups (of Elizabethan 

 pattern) still in the parishes of St. Sampson's, Catel (now 

 stolen), St. Saviour's and the Forest, all of about the date of 

 1700, and from the records, probably also in the parishes of 

 St. Peter-Port, St. Peter's-in-the-Wood and St. Andrew's. 

 A Bason or Paten was also provided and may still be found at 

 the Catel. St. Saviour's, St. Peter's-in-the-wood and the 

 Forest, and from the records, probably also at St. Peter-Port 

 and St. Andrew's, and lastly a Baptismal Ewer, as still found 

 in the Catel, St. Saviour's and St. Andrew's, and probably 

 also at St. Peter-Port, St. Peter's-in-the-Wood, Torteval and 

 the Forest. Those extant were all the gift of Elizabeth, 

 widow of Pierre Le Messurier, with the exception of that of 

 St. Saviour's, which was the gift of Jean de la Mare, of Les 

 Padins, and Judith de Garis, his wife, and where they have 



marks, they bear the same, viz. : jji and were probably of 



local workmanship. LL-S 



After this period, there was more diversity of pattern, 

 and towards the middle of the 18th century, the gift of private 



