trouve point soit en se cachant ou autre Collusion la Citation sera affichée à l'huis du Temple Paroissial d'icelle en cas qu'il n'ayt aucun Domicile ce en jour de Dimanche 49. S'il parvient aux oreilles du Doyen par Relation de gens de bien que quelqu ' un vit notoirement en quelque Scandale il en pourra avertir le Ministre les Surveillâ—ns de la Paroisse afin que s'en estant informés ils Presentent telles personnes qui meritent d'estre punies ou Censurées 50. Là où il constera de la faute commise par quelque Ministre le Doyen aprés Monition réitérée procédera à la Reformation par l'avis Consentement de deux Ministres jusqu'a Suspension Sequestration en cas que ledit Ministre demeure Refractaire le Doyen procédera par le Consentement de la plus part des Ministres presents en l'Isle jusqu'a Déprivation 51. On ne fera point de Commutation pour Pénitence sinon avec grande Circonspection ayant égard à la qualité des Personnes Circonstances des fautes Et sera la Commutation enregistrée ès Actes de la Court pour estre employée aux Pauvres usages pi eux dont Accomptes seront rendus selon ledit Registre 52. Aprés la premiere Defaute la Non-comparence de ceux qui seront derechef cités par Mandat sera reputée Contumace si estans cités par aprés en Péremptoire ils ne comparoissent on pourra procéder à l'encontre d'eux à l' Excommunication Que si dans le prochain jour de Court la Partie ne fait devoir d'obtenir Absolution on procédera à la Publication de la Sentence Mineure Excommunication laquelle sera delivrée au Ministre de la Paroisse pour en faire lecture à jour Solennel à l'oâ—ye de la plus part des Paroissiens assemblés lapartie persistant en son Endurcissement on procédera à la Majeure Excommunication qui forclost le Pécheur à Sacris Societate Fidelium Que si cette Censure ne sert pour l'induire à Obéissance se ranger dans le Terme de 40 jours alors le Doyen parson Certificat authentique donnera Avertissement au Bailly Jurétz de ladite Contumace les requerra en Assistance de sa Jurisdiction de le faire saisir par les Officiers Civils pour le rendre Prisonnier en Détention Corporelle jusqu'a ce quil se soit submis obligé d'obtemperer à l'Ordonnance de l'Eglise devant qu'estre Absous sera tenu de payer les frais Coustages de la poursuite de la Cause 53. En Causes de Paillardise sur la Presentation des Surveillans avec les Probabilités commun Bruit Scandale Presumptions à ce requises la partie sera sujette de subir le Serment de sa Purgation ou autrement sera tenu pour Convaincu 54. En cas d'Adultére à l'Instance de Partie on y procédera meurement par bonnes preuves Informations pour avoir Evidence du faict objecte le sujet Preuve du fait le requerant on pourra conclurre jusqu'a Séparation à Thoro Mensâ 55. Là où il y aura Calomnie ou Diffamation prouvée on fera Recognoissance des Injures selon l'Exigence du cas pourveu que l'Action ne soit prescrite par lapse de temps d'un an entier pourveu que le sujet de l'Action soit de Crimes Ecclesiastiques cy devant Specifiés Des Appellations 56. Les Appeaux en Causes Ecclesiastiques seront oûis définis par le Révérend Pére en Dieu l'Evesque de Winchestre en personne en cas de Vacance de ce Siége par le Trés Révérend Pére en Dieu l'Archvesque de Canterbury en personne 57. Tout Appels interjettera dans Quinze jours aprés Cognoissance de la Sentence sera la partie obligée de prendre exhiber tout le Procés Actes du Registre ou Rolles de la Court lesquels Actes aussy luy seront delivrés en forme temps convenable authentiqués sous le sceau de l'Office sera l'Appellant sujet de le poursuivre dans an jour aut Sententiae latae stare compellitur 58. Il ne sera licite d'Appeller qu'aprés Sentence Définitive de la Cause sinon pour ces deux égards ou quand l'Interlocutoire est telle qu'elle met fin à la Cause ou quand ladite Interlocutoire estant obéie elle apporte tel Damage irreparable à la partie qu'il ne peut estre amendé par Appel de la Définitive Of the King's Supremacy FIrst according to the Duty we owe to the King 's most Excellent Majesty it is ordained that the Dean and Ministers having Cure of Souls shall be obliged to the utmost of their Power Knowledge and Learning purely and sincerely without any Backwardness or Dissimulation to teach publish and declare as often as they may and as occasion shall offer it self that all forreign strange and usurped Power for as much as it has no ground in the Word of God is wholly for good and just Causes taken away and abolished and that therefore no manner of Obedience or Subjection within His Majesty's Kingdoms and Dominions is due unto any such Power But that the King's Power within his Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Dominions and Countries is the highest Power under God to which all Persons Natives and Inhabitants within the same do by God's Law owe Loyalty and Obedience before and above all other Power 2. Whosoever shall affirm and maintain that the King's Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical which Godly Kings had among the Jews and Christian Emperors in the Primitive Church or shall in any manner of way impeach or obstruct the King's Supremacy in the said Causes Moreover whosoever shall affirm that the Church of England as it is established under the King's Majesty is not a true and Apostolical Church purely teaching the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles or shall impugne the Government of the said Church by Archbishops Bishops and Deans affirming it to be Anti-christian shall be ipso facto Excommunicated and not restored but by the Dean sitting in Court after his Repentance and publick Recantation of his Error Of Divine Service 3. It is injoyned unto all sorts of Persons to submit to the Divine Service contained in the Book of Common Prayers of the Church of England And for as much as concerns the Ministers they shall be obliged to observe with Uniformity the said Liturgy without Addition or Alteration And no Conventicle or Congregation shall be suffered to make Sect apart or withdraw themselves from the Ecclesiastical Government established in the Island 4. The Lord's Day shall be sanctified by the Exercises of publick
of JERSEY and Garnsey did of ancient time belong to the Dutchy of Normandy but when King Henry I. had overthrown his elder Brother Robert Duke of Normandy he did unite to the Kingdom of England perpetually the Dutchy of Normandy together with these Isles And albeit King John lost the Possession of Normandy and King Henry III. took Money for it yet the Inhabitants of these Isles with great Constancy remained and so to this day do remain true and faithful to the Crown of England AND THE POSSESION OF THESE ISLANDS BEING PARCEL OF THE DVTCHY OF NORMANDY ARE A GOOD SEISIN FOR THE KING OF ENGLAND OF THE WHOLE DVTCHY CHAP. II. Description of the Island THE Island of JERSEY is seated in the Bay of St. Michael betwixt Cap de la Hague and Cap Forhelles the first in Normandy the last in Bretagne both which Promontories may be seen from thence in a clear Day The nearest Shore is that of Normandy to which the Cut is so short that Churches and Houses may be easily discerned from either Coast It lies according to Mr. Samarâ—s his new Survey in 49 Deg. and 25 Min. of Northern Latitude which I take to be right enough But when he gives it but 11 Deg. and 30 Min. of Longitude I cannot conceive where he fixes his first Meridian For to say nothing of the Isles of Azores or those of Cap Verd which are at a much greater Distance if he takes it with Sanson and the French Geographers from the Isle of Feró the most Western of the Canaries it must be a great deal more than he says viz. 18 Deg. at the least Or if he takes it even from Tenarif which according to the best and latest Observations is 18 Deg. from London still the Longitude of JERSEY cannot be less than 15 Deg. 30 Min. It seems to me to have near the same Longitude as Bristol in England In Length it exceeds not 12 Miles The Breadth where it is broadest is betwixt 6 and 7. The Figure resembleth somewhat an Oblong long Parallelogram the longest Sides whereof are the North and South the narrowest are the East and West The North Side is a continued Hill or ridge of Cliffs which are sometimes 50 Fathoms high from the Water and render the Island generally unaccessible on that Side The South side is much lower and in some Places level as it were with the Sea I cannot better compare it than to a Wedge or to a Triangle Right-angle the Basis whereof may be supposed to be the Sea the Cathetus those high and craggy Cliffs which it hath on the North and the Hypothenusa the Surface of the Island which declines and falls gently from North to South according to the following Diagram JERSEY It receives two great Benefits from this Situation The First is that those Rivulets for I cannot call them Rivers with which this Island abounds do by this means run further and receive a greater Increase and Accession of Waters whereby they become strong enough to turn betwixt 30 and 40 Mills that supply the whole Country than they would do should the Island rise in the middle and all the Streams by an equal Course descend on every side to the Sea This Consideration would be of no great Moment to a larger Country but is of unexpressible Use and Advantage to so small an Island The Second Benefit which we receive from this Situation is that by this Declivity of the Land from N to S the Beams of the Sun fall more directly and perpendicularly thereon than if either the Surface was level and Parallel to the Sea or which is worse declined from S to N as it doth in Guernezey For there by an odd opposition to JERSEY the Land is high on the S and low on the N which causes if I may so speak a double Obliquity the one from the Position of the Sun it self especially in time of the Winter Solstice the other from the Situation of the Land and is probably the Reason of the great Difference observed in the Qualities of Soil and Air in both Islands GUERNEZEY This Declivity of JERSEY is not a smooth and even Declivity as some may 't think The Surface is extremely broken and unequal rising and falling almost perpetually For as on the N it is an entire Hill with few and short Vales so on the S SE and SW it is cut into sundry fruitfull Valleys narrow at the Beginning but growing wider as they draw still nearer and nearer to the Sea where they end in several Flats of good Meadows and Pastures Mr. Poingdestre thought that this Unevenness and Inequality of the Surface added much to the Quantity and Proportion of the ground and that the Island was so much the more Capacious and Productive by how much the more the Surface was expanded rising with the Hills and descending with the Valleys But herein I must take the Liberty to depart from so great a Man It being demonstrable that a Country that is exactly level will contain as many Houses and Inhabitants will produce as many Trees Plants c. as another Country whose Surface is as uneven and unequal as can be but whose Basis or Plane is equal to the other Therefore the true Dimension of any Country is not to be taken from those Gibbosities that swell the Surface in one Place or those Profundities that depress it in another but from the true Basis or Plane of that Country The Nature of the Mould and Soil admits great Variety which proceeds from this Difference of higher and lower Grounds The higher Grounds are gritty gravelly and some stony and rocky but others are Excellently good The Lower are deep heavy and rich Those near the Sea are light and sandy yet not equally so in all Places But generally there is little barren Ground in the whole Island almost none that is not capable of receiving some profitable Culture and recompensing one way or other the Pains of the Labouring Husbandman We must except a large Tract of once Excellent Lands in the West of the Island which within these 200 Years have been so over-run with Sands that the Island on that side beareth the Image of a Desart This is said to have happened by Divine Vengeance on the Owners of those Lands for detaining the Goods of Strangers that had been shipwrackt on that Coast though injoyned by the highest Censures of the Church to restore them There must be from time to time such publick Examples of Divine Justice among Men that the Inhabitants of the Earth may learn Righteousness And yet I confess it may 't be also the Effect of a Cause not Preternatural I mean of those high Westerly winds that blow here almost at all Seasons of the Year and which on this side of the Island are daily seen to drive the Sands from the Bottom to the Top of the highest Cliffs The Island produces all Manner of
ROBERT his elder Brother seized the Crown and kept it while himself lived Normandy with these Islands remaining in the Possession of ROBERT who made a shift to hold them during the Reign of his Brother Rufus There was a Pact of mutual Succession betwixt the two Brothers But Rufus being suddenly killed by the glance of an Arrow as he was hunting in the New Forest while Robert was with Godfrey of Bouillon and other Noble Adventurers fighting against the Sarrazins for the recovery of the Holy Land the Crown was again seized by Henry Beauclerk third Son of the Conqueror and so Robert twice one after the other excluded from the Succession of England by his younger Brothers Still nevertheless he kept possession of Normandy and of these Islands He was a brave but unfortunate Prince He won such Reputation in the Holy War that after the taking of Jerusalem he was by common Consent of all the Princes in the Christian Army chosen King of that newly conquer'd Kingdom But having then the Crown of England in his eye he declined that honourable Offer after which it has been observed that he never prospered For at his return from the Holy Land he found not only that Crown which was his by Right of Primogeniture fast on the head of young Beauclerk but himself reduced to the necessity of defending Normandy against his Brother who plainly now endeavoured to out him of all The War grew hot betwixt them in which the Fortune of Henry prevailing Duke Robert was taken his eyes put out and himself imprisoned in Cardiff Castle where he languished about Twenty six years in great Misery till with the extreme Indignities his Brother continued even then to put upon him his great Heart broke The Body of this injured Prince lies interr'd in the Cathedral Church of Glocester in as mean a Tomb as that of his Father at Caen for I have seen both Were Men allowed to search into the Counsels and Judgments of God one would be very apt to suspect that the misfortune which sometime after befell King Henry in the loss of his Children shipwrack'd in their passage from Normandy to England was an effect of the Divine Vengeance and Indignation for his Cruelty and Injustice to his Brother The young Princes the eldest of whom bore the Title of Duke of Normandy and with it the weight and load of his Father's sin were driven by the storm among these Islands and were cast away upon Casquet a dangerous Rock two Leagues West of Alderney where they miserably perisht After the Reduction of Normandy and of these Islands by HENRY he declared them unalienable from the Crown of England in which State they remained under the succeeding Reigns of STEPHEN of Blois Grandson of the Conqueror by his Daughter Alice HENRY II. Son of Maud the Empress who was Daughter of Henry I. RICHARD I Sirnamed Coeur de Lion Son of Henry II. But under the unfortunate Administration of King JOHN who was Brother of Richard I and succeeded him in the Kingdom the Dukedom of Normandy tho' not these Islands was lost on this occasion Henry II had among other Sons these Three following 1. Richard to whom he left the Kingdom and who died without Legitimate issue 2. Jeffrey who died in his Father's Life-time leaving a Son called Arthur Duke of Bretagne in Right of his Mother And 3. John Count de Mortain in Normandy afterwards King Upon Richard's Death the right of Succession devolved on Arthur his Second Brother's Son But John stept in betwixt him and the Crown whereupon the young Prince applies himself to Philip Augustus King of France for Protection and Succour against his Uncle that had stript him of his Inheritance The French who have always found their advantage in our Civil Distractions and have accordingly always improved and fomented them were glad of the opportunity offered A Quarrel was pickt with King John on the Prince's account but so managed that it soon appeared that persidious Nation pursued their own ends more than the Interest of the Prince whose Title they had undertaken to defend Which the Prince himself seeing reconciled himself once to his Uncle but that held not long To be short the poor Prince fell into the hands of the exasperated King by whom he was shut up close Prisoner in the Castle of Rouen in Normandy and soon after was found dead in the Castle-ditch whether made away by the Jealousie of his Uncle as some suspect or that himself not brooking so severe a Restraint and endeavouring to escape perished in the Attempt as is given out by others is uncertain Upon this Philip Augustus to embroil more and more the King's Affairs chargeth King John with the Murder of the Prince and on pretence that he was his Vassal for what he held in France cites him before the Parliament of Paris to answer the Accusation Where the King not thinking it consistent with his Dignity or Safety to appear was condemned as a Felon and as such declared to have lost and forfeited his Right to Normandy and to all other Estates which he held as Fiefs of that Crown which were seized accordingly an Army being ready to execute the Summary Sentence and the King's hands so full of other business at home that he was forced to sit still and see those fair Provinces torn from him without being able to apply a sutable Remedy to so great an Evil. The French having thus possessed themselves of Normandy invaded these Islands Twice they entred them and twice they were beaten out of them again The Inhabitants had under their Dukes contracted a great Aversion to the French and stood stoutly on their own Defence The King himself looking on them as the last Plank left of so great a Shipwrack and that they would always serve to shew his Right to that Dukedom to which they had once belonged and might perhaps one time or other be a means to recover it resolved to keep them whatever they cost him and accordingly hastned himself over hither and was twice in Person in JERSEY Which he caused to be fortified and gave special Order for the Custody and Safeguard of the Castles and Ports which before lay too open to the Enemy To this King therefore we owe our Preservation From him we have many Excellent Laws and Priviledges which he granted us at his being here and which have been confirmed to us in after-times by his Successors Kings and Queens of England Him for that reason we must consider as our special Benefactor and whatever ill things may be otherwise said of him must in Gratitude have a Veneration and an Esteem for his Memory K. John died An. 1216. His Son HENRY III. was so plagued by his Rebellious Barons who had set up the Title of Prince Lewis of France Son of Philip Augustus against his Father and Him which pretended Title of Lewis was in right of his Wife
Place And yet even those few were enough to have held it against a whole Army For the Land is so high and unaccessible on all Sides and the Steps leading up so steep and narrow that one Man arm'd only with Stones may 't have kept out a Thousand This Island notwithstanding was taken by a small Company of Flemings Subjects of K. Philip Husband of Q. Mary who coming in the Night to one of those Paths and finding it unguarded went up without Resistance and took the French Prisoners This is the Account which we have of that surprize from a Manuscript History of JERSEY written by an Anonymous Author in the Year 1585 But Sir Walter Raleigh who was sometime Governour of JERSEY and being a sagacious and inquisitive Person informed himself exactly of all the Singularities of these Islands gives a very different Relation of it For he says it was taken by a Stratagem which he preferreth to many of the Ancients The Island of Sark says he joyning to Guernezey and of that Government was in Queen Mary's time he should have said in King Edward the VIth's time surprized by the French and could never have been recovered again by strong hand having Cattle and Corn enough upon the place to feed so many Men as will serve to defend it and being every way so inaccessible that it might be held against the Great Turk Yet by the industry of a Gentleman of the Netherlands it was in this sort regained He anchored in the Road with one Ship and pretending the Death of his Merchant besought the French that they might bury their Merchant in hallowed ground and in the Chappel of that Isle Offering a Present to the French of such Commodities as they had aboard Whereto with condition that they should not come ashore with any weapon no not so much as with a Knife the French yielded Then did the Flemings put a Coffin into their Boat not fill'd with a dead Carcass but with Swords Targets and Harquebuzes The French received them at their Landing and searching every of them so narrowly as they could not hide a Penknife gave them leave to draw their Coffin up the Rocks with great difficulty Some part of the French took the Flemish-boat and rowed aboard their Ship to fetch the Commodities promised and what else they pleased but being entered they were taken and bound The Flemings on the Land when they had carried their Coffin into the Chappel shut the door to them and taking their Weapons out of the Coffin set upon the French They run to the Cliff and cry to their Companions aboard the Fleming to come to their Succour But finding the Boat charged with Flemings yielded themselves and the Place I have seen a Manuscript which confirms the taking of this Island by such a Stratagem but the other Circumstances of Time and Persons agree not with the foregoing Story From Queen Mary's time to this the French never set foot in a hostile manner on JERSEY ground Queen ELIZABETH had scarce any War with France all the time of her long and prosperous Reign She had another Enemy to deal with viz the Spaniard Whose aims at the universal Monarchy were defeated by the Felicities of that Queen But that incomparable Princess knowing that 't is a great part of Wisdom in the profoundest Peace to provide for War had even at that time a carefull eye on the safety of these Islands She begun that noble Castle in JERSEY which from her is to this day called Castle Elizabeth but lived only to finish that part of it which is above the Iron-gate and is called the upper Ward the lower parts having been since added to that Fortification King JAMES was a most pacifick Prince He thought these Islands in no danger while he lived and therefore took the less care for the Military defence of them But it was he that setled Religion in JERSEY and that brought Us to a Conformity to the Church of England A work doubtless more acceptable to God and for which his Name will be perpetuated amongst Us no less than if he had invironed this Island with a wall of Brass A work of all others the most congruous to his peaceable Reign Thus when God resolved to have a Temple among the Jews he chose the peaceable Reign of Salomon and not that of David tho' otherwise a most excellent Prince because he had been a Man of Blood We are come to a Reign full of Troubles that of King CHARLES I numbered among the Good but unfortunate Princes This Island had a deep share in the Sufferings of her King His early Match with a Daughter of France could not hinder a War from breaking out soon after betwixt the two Crowns In the Year 1627. the King sent Forces under the command of the Duke of Buckingham for the relief of Rochel And tho' that Expedition proved unsuccessfull yet the Landing of an English Army in the Isle of Rhee was so resented by the French that they resolved to revenge the Affront by a like Descent the Year following on the Isles of JERSEY and Guernezey Which design had been certainly executed had it not been timely discovered and notice thereof given to the Council in England Whereupon the Earl of Danby as Dr. Heylin who attended him in the Voyage informs us was ordered to go over into these Islands and to provide for the Safety and Security of them Which was done accordingly The Garrisons were re-inforced the Magazines were stored with all manner of warlike Provisions the People were exhorted to remember their ancient Loyalty to the Crown of England and all things were put into a posture of Defence But the French came not And to strengthen more and more the Isle of JERSEY against any Attempts that might be made from France new Fortifications were added to Elizabeth Castle which about that time became the Residence of the Governour Then began to be built that part of it called the lower Ward which takes up the ground whereon stood once the Church and Abby of St. Helier which work was carried on and finished in this Reign The Flame of an unnatural War being soon after kindled in the bowels of the Kingdom betwixt the King and his discontented Subjects the Island of JERSEY was secured for the King by Sir George de Carteret who held it several years against the whole power of the Rebels It pleased God in his infinite Wisdom to permit those wicked men to get the better of their King They beat his Armies out of the Field and seized his Person Yet even amidst all their Prosperities this little Island was still a Thorn and a Goad in their sides Ten or twelve small Frigats and Privateers were fitted out of JERSEY These so infested the Channel that not to mention the many Prizes they daily took from them and brought in here and into St. Malo's not an English ship could pass the Channel without
Convoy Which brought so great an Interruption to Trade and Charge to the Nation that it was then understood of what Consequence the keeping of these Islands is to England and a Resolution was taken to spare no Cost for the Reduction of JERSEY This is an example which methinks should never be forgotten and I purposely insist thereon to shew what a fatal Error it would be to suffer the French to possess themselves of these Islands seated as they are in the Channel where instead of their own shallow Bays and Creeks they would find good Roads and safe Harbours if not for their greatest Fleets at least for their Pyracies While matters stood thus in England Prince Charles who was afterwards King Charles II came to JERSEY where he was received with a Joy equal to the Honour we received from his Presence amongst Us tho' even this was not without a great mixture of Sorrow for the Detention of his Royal Father who was then close Prisoner in Hurst Castle a most unhealthy place seated on a Point of Land that shoots far into the Sea destitute of fresh water and annoyed with the Salt and stinking Vapours that arise out of the neighbouring Marshes and for that very reason probably made choice of by the infamous Regicides to weary the good King out of his Life whom they were resolved one way or other to remove out of the World A Project was formed by some of our Loyal Islanders to rescue the afflicted King out of his Captivity and to bring him to JERSEY where the Prince then was The King was priviâ—y acquainted with the Design and was pleased to Consent to his removal to JERSEY But when the thing came to be executed it was unhappily defeated by the vigilancy of his Majesty's Keepers or rather by an unsearchable Providence which had decreed to make of that best of Kings the greatest Example of injured and oppressed Innocence that has been in the World since our blessed Saviour It is nevertheless no small satisfaction to Us that while too many others of his Majesty's Subjects looked unconcerned on his unparallel'd Sufferings we did our honest endeavours for the Preservation of his sacred Life so that at whosesoever door the Guilt of that Blood may lie we of this Island have blessed be God no otherwise contributed to the shedding of it than by our sins in general which added to the heap of the sins of the Nation drew down that heavy Judgment on Us all After the barbarous Murder of that blessed King his Son the undoubted Heir of all his Dominions was immediately Proclaimed and his Title recognized in JERSEY His Majesty was pleased once again to make some residence amongst Us. He came the Second time to JERSEY attended by his Royal Brother the Duke of York and several of the Loyal Nobility that adhered to him in his Exile Neither must I omit a very singular Honour which his Majesty did our little Island during his abode there He himself took a Survey of it and being well skilled in the Mathematicks did with his own Royal hand draw a Map of it so accurately done that to this day it is carefully preserved among a Collection of other noble Curiosities of Art and Nature in the Heer Van Adlershelm's famous Cabinet at Leipsich in Germany where it is seen by Travellers About this time Charles Fort was built which is an Out-work to Elizabeth Castle that commands the entrance and approach to it on the Land-side His Majesty being invited to a Treaty with the Scots he left JERSEY again but so highly satisfied with those many Demonstrations of duty and affection which in his greatest Distress he had received from the Islanders that while he lived he was pleased to retain a gratefull and a generous Sense of them The Treaty with the Scots went on successfully The King was Crown'd at Scoone Jan. 1. 1650 and soon after came into England at the head of a Royal Army to dispute his Right with the Usurpers of his Kingdoms The two Armies encountred at Worcester Sept. 3. 1651 where it pleased God again to give the Rebels such Success that the King not only lost the day but was forced to abscond with great danger of his Person till he found a passage into France where he Landed the 22d of October following In the mean while the Parliament in England was making great Preparations for the Reduction of JERSEY being strangely alarmed at the taking of so many of their Vessels by the Privateers of this Island who continued to annoy the Channel and were grown so bold that they would set upon English Ships in the very Harbours A Fleet of about Eighty Sails increased afterwards to a greater Number was set out for that Expedition under command of Admiral Blake while Major General Hains headed the Forces designed for the Descent The Fleet appeared in sight of the Island October 20. 1651. and the same day came to an Anchor in St. Oüen's Bay The Bay lies open to a Westerly wind which blows in so violently the greatest part of the Year and rolls in such a Sea that 't is very unsafe for Shipping But the same unaccountable Success that used to attend the Rebels in other places attended them here All the time they lay in this Bay they had so smooth a Sea that in the Memory of man the like had not been known at that Season of the year Which was no small Discouragement to our People who thought it in vain to sight against men that seemed to have the very Winds and Seas to sight for them But that indeed which quite dispirited them was the unhappy News they received at that time of the King's defeat at Worcester which came accompanied with a Report tho' false of his being taken in endeavouring to escape This brought such a Consternation amongst them and so sunk their Courage that they who at another time would have most gladly sacrificed their Lives to promote his Majesty's Affairs were ready to have laid down their Arms had not the extraordinary Conduct and Gallantry of their Governor Sir George de Carteret brought them on to fight The first day and the night following nothing was attempted by the Enemy The next day Octob. 21. early in the Morning their Cannon began to play which was answered by several little Forts and Redoubts in the Bay and by twenty four Brass-Field-Pieces which attend the Militia upon occasion Some of the lesser Frigats drew so near the Shore that they made use of their Small-shot which was answered with equal Bravery by our Men who wading into the very water fired briskly upon the Enemies calling them Rebels and Traitors and Murderers of their King The Battery lasted Four hours after which the whole Fleet drew off and went to St. Brelard's Bay distant about a League from that of S. Oüen where being all come to an Anchor they sent back a Squadron to St. Oüen the place where
Turon Abbatissa Cadom Monasterii Villers duodecimam Garbam Abbas S. Salvatoris Vice-com sextam Garbam Rector habet IV Virgas Eleemosynae valet XXX Lib. Turon Ecclesia Sancti Laurentii Patronus Abbas de Blancâ Landâ percipit tertiam partem Decimae Abbas S. Salvatoris Vice-com sextam Episcopus Aurensis medietatem Rector habet XVI Virgas Eleemosynae valet XXX Lib. Turon Ecclesia Sancti Salvatoris Patronus Archidiaconus Vallis Viris in Ecclesiâ Constantiensi Et est ibi Vicarius qui reddit Archidiacono annuatim XX Lib. Turon Dominus Episcopus Constantiensis percipit medietatem Decimae Archidiaconus tertiam Abbas S. Salvatoris Vice-com sextam Et habet Vicarius XXIV Virg. Eleemosynae Ecclesia Sancti Clementis Patronus Abbas S. Salvatoris Vicecom Rector percipit quartam quintam Garbam Abbas S. Salvatoris Vice-com Abbatissa Cadom Monasterii Villers residuum Et ibi XXIV Virg. Eleemosynae valet XL Lib. Turon Ecclesia Sancti Martini Veteris Patronus Abbas Caesariensis percipit ibi C. solid de Pensione Rector percipit tertiam partem Decimae habet XXVI Virgas Eleemosynae Abbas S. Salvatoris Vice-com sextam Garbam Abbatissa Cadom Monasterii Villers quartam partem valet LXX Lib. Turon Ecclesia de Grovillâ Patronus Abbas de Exaquio percipit quartam Garbam Abbas S. Salvatoris Vice-com sextam Abbatissa Cadom Monasterii Villers medietatem Rector percipit nonam Partem habet XII Virgas Eleemosynae Et valet communibus Annis L. Lib. Turon Ecclesia Sancti Helerii Patronus Abbas S. Salvatoris Vicecom percipit medietatem Decimae ex quâ medietate percipit Rector quintam Garbam Abbatissa Cadom Monasterii Villers quartam partem Rector habet .... Virgas Eleemosynae valet XL. Lib. Turon Quod autem vidimus legimus hoc Testamur In cujus rei Testimonium sigillum magnum Curiae Episcopalis Constantiensis praesentibus duximus apponendum Datum Constantiae A. D. 1461. 6 tâ Die Mensis Februarii At present the best Revenue of the Clergy arises from the Improvement of Fruit-Trees and Cidar But all Years are not equally productive nor does Cidar bear always the same Price which renders the said Revenue very uncertain By a long and immemorial Prescription the Clergy of this Island have injoyed an Exemption from payment of First-fruits and Annates or Tenths to the King The impropriated Tythes of the Parish of St. Saviour by special Grant from the Crown have been annexed to the Deanry To each Church belongs a Fund or Annual Revenue of about 15 or 20 Quarters of Wheat-Rent given in ancient Times by Pious and Charitable Persons for the Support of those Fabricks and other Sacred and Religious Uses But it is now more generally applied to the Publick Necessities of the Island To supply the Church with able Men from among the Natives there are two Publick-Free-Latin and Greek Schools set up almost in the two Extremities of the Island viz. St. Magloire corruptly St. Manelier and St. Anastase or Athanase each of them being designed for the Instruction of the Youth of six Parishes We have also three Fellowships and five Exhibitions or Scholarships in Oxford belonging to JERSEY and Guernezey by Alternate Turns The first Founded by K. Charles I. of Blessed Memory induced thereunto by Archbishop Laud who intended by those Encouragements to draw off our young Students from Foreign Universities whither they generally went before and from whence they too often returned with Minds very much prejudiced against the Church of England The last the bountiful Gift of the Reverend Dr. Morley our late honoured Diocesan CHAP. VI. Convention of the Estates THat common Observation that in the Forms and Models of Government a little City differeth not from a great one is verified by the Constitution and Practice of this Island where in a very small State one may see the Figure and Image of a great Empire For here we have our Conventus trium Ordinum i. e. Our Convention or Meeting of the three Orders or Estates of the Island in imitation of those August Assemblies known by that or some other Name in great Kingdoms and Monarchies In a word this Convention is the shadow and resemblance of an English Parliament being composed of the Jurats or Court of Justice as the First and noblest Body the Dean and Clergy as the Second and the XII High-Constables as the Representatives of the Commons The King's Procurator the Viscount and the King's Advocate tho' they represent no Estate being also admitted propter Dignitatem This Convention cannot be held but by Consent and Permission of the Governor or of his Deputy who has a Negative Voice therein as the Parliament cannot meet but at the Pleasure of the King nor pass any thing into Law without his Royal Assent The Bailly or his Lieutenant is the perpetual Prolocutor in these Meetings as the Speaker is in Parliament and every Member Present has Voice Deliberative No Estates can be held without Seven of each Body at the least nor can Foreigners preferred to Benefices be Members of this Convention unless naturalized it not being thought safe to intrust Strangers with the Secrets of the Island till they have given good Proof of their Affection to the Government they live under There has been some Dispute formerly about the Power claimed by the Governor in calling these Assemblies and influencing their Debates by his Negative Voice The result whereof was a Regulation of that Power by two Consecutive Orders of Council in the Reign of K. James I to this Effect First Order Anno 1618. There shall be no Assembly of the States without the Consent of the Governor or of his Lieutenant in his Absence In which it is to be understood that the Governor or his Lieutenant in his Absence have a Negative Voice To the end it may be provided that no Ordinance may be agreed upon prejudicial to his Majesty's Service or the Interests of the People Second Order Anno 1619. Modifying the former For the better Explanation of the Article concerning the Assembly of the States which was ordered not to be done without the Consent of the Governor or of his Lieutenant in his Absence it is now finally Ordered for Causes made known unto Vs and for the avoiding of all future Question that the foresaid Article shall continue in Force with this Qualification That if the Bailly or Justices shall require an Assembly of the States the Governor shall not defer it above fifteen days Except he have such cause to the contrary either in respect of the Safety of the Island or Our special Service otherwise as he will answer to Vs or the Lords of Our Council whereof he shall give as present Advice as possibly wind and weather may serve And concerning the Governor's Negative Voice in the making of Ordinances it is now also