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AN EMINENT GUERNSEY MAN. 



delay about ratifying the Charters, as doubtless the remem- 

 brances of the islanders' insubordination still rankled with 

 the King; however, in 1667 he prevailed upon Charles to 

 ratify and confirm and even to amplify all our previous 

 Charters and privileges, and thus obtained for us indemnity 

 for the past and security for the future. For this service, 

 it was determined at a States Meeting in December of that 

 year, that the public gratitude to Sir Henry should be officially 

 recorded on the public registers, so as to serve as a " Monu- 

 ment to Posterity," while by Royal Warrant the Constables 

 and Douzeniers of the Vale and St. Sampson's, under the 

 auspices of the Royal Court, set about defining the limits 

 of the submerged lands in the Braye du Valle for the purpose 

 of handing them over to Sir Henry, although I can find 

 no record of this ever having been definitely accomplished. 



Sir Henry was then living in London, and Pepys, chro- 

 nicling a Court Ball held at Whitehall, mentions that among 

 the dancers " my lady Castlemaine and a daughter of Sir 

 Harry de Vicke's were the best." This daughter soon after- 

 wards married as his second wife Lord Frecheville, of 

 Stavely, in Derbyshire. He died in 1682, and as the widowed 

 Lady Frecheville, she is mentioned as an attendant upon 

 the Princess of Denmark (afterwards Queen Anne) at the 

 time the Princess made her escape from London in 1688, 

 and she was afterwards one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber 

 when Anne was Queen; she died without issue. After his 

 daughter's marriage Sir Henry went to live in Windsor "for 

 peace and quiet." By his will, written in 1668 or 9, when he 

 Avas "aged 71 yeeres and upwards" we learn that he had had 

 a long illness through which he had been nursed by his faithful 

 housekeeper, Bridget Wing, and had been attended by Dr. de 

 Beauvoir, who was both a Guernsey man and his cousin, and is 

 one of the earliest Guernseymen to take up the profession of 

 medicine of whom we have record. In this will we read of 

 those who were his familiar circle at Windsor, Dr. Butler, 

 Canon of Windsor, Dr. Bruno Ryves, Dean of Windsor, 

 James Smith, Esq., of New Windsor, Councillor at Law, 

 all men noted for their learning and their piety. He left 

 legacies to each of his servants, to the poor of Windsor 

 as well as to various pensioners he had assisted in his lifetime, 

 £10 to the poor of the parish of St. Peter-Port, " to be 

 distributed by my nephew, Mr. James Haviland, one of the 

 jurats living on the place." To his daughter, Lady Freche- 

 ville, " a gold bodkin set with diamonds, in token of my 

 fatherly affection to her, and the reason why I doe bequeath 



