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An account of the Isle of Jersey, the greatest of those islands that are now the only reminder of the English dominions in France with a new and accurate map of the island / by Philip Falle ...
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Falle, Philip, 1656-1742.
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Under Signed in the Original G. Cant. Jo. Lincoln C. S. La. Winton These Islands were first in the Diocese of Dol in Bretagne and so continued from the time of St. Sampson till the coming of the Danes or Normans into Neustria who falling out with the Bretons about the limits of their Territories and a War ensuing thereupon betwixt them withdrew these Islands from the Obedience of the British Bishop and gave them a Bishop of their own viz. that of Coûtance in Normandy the lofty Towers of whose beautiful Cathedral once our Mother Church are seen from JERSEY To this Bishop these Islands remained subject even after the Defection of Normandy notwithstanding the frequent Wars betwixt the two Crowns untill the Tenth Year of Queen Elizabeth King John indeed having lost Normandy had once in an angry Mood designed to annex them to the See of Exeter in England but did not It was the Change of Religion in these Islands that took away from the Popish Bishop of Coûtance his Jurisdiction over them For then they were by an Order of Council dated March 11th 1568. transferred and united to the Diocese of Winton Robertus Cenalis Bishop of Avranches in Normandy imposes upon himself and his Readers when he says that these Islands were sometime under his Predecessors Bishops of Avranches This certainly is a mistake and must proceed from some Papers which belike he found in the Archives of that Church mentioning some Parcels of Tythes paid here in time past to the Bishops of his See The Bishops of Dol and Coûtance for the Exercise of their Authority had in each Island of JERSEY and Guernezey a Commissary or Surrogate called Decanus the Dean An Office of great Antiquity since I find it mentioned in very old Records and have reason to believe it as ancient as Episcopacy and consequently as ancient as Christianity it self in these Islands To him those Bishops left the Cognizance of all Matters of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction reserving only to themselves Ordinations Institutions and Appeals The same Power is vested in the present Deans with this limitation that they are to govern themselves by the Advice and Opinions of the rest of the Ministers who are to be their constant Assessors much after the manner of those ancient Presbyteries or Councils of Priests who sate with the Bishops in their Consistories and assisted them in giving Judgment in all Causes brought before them An excellent Government and grounded on the Primitive Pattern When the Office of Dean was revived in JERSEY in the Reign of K. James I a Motion was made to give the said Dean the Power of a Bishop Suffragan within the Island Appeals being still reserved to the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Winchester I could never know why that Motion was rejected But we daily see the necessity of such a Power particularly in the want of Confirmation of Children after Baptism That Apostolical Institution being thereby become altogether unpracticable amongst Us. Nor have we any way to supply that Defect but by taking great care as we generally do to have Children brought to publick Catechism where in the presence of God's Church they renew their Baptismal Vow and taking upon themselves the Obligations of Christianity discharge their Sponsors of the Promise made for them at their Baptism Upon which and not before we admit them to the Holy Communion The Patronage of all the Churches here in time of Popery belonged to several Great Abbots in Normandy as to the Abbots of St. Sauveur le Vicomte Cherbourg St. Michael Blanche Lande c. which Patronage at the Reformation was vested in the King who has since made Cession of it to the Governor It is he that presents now to all vacant Benefices in His Majesty's Right But the Deanry continues of Royal Nomination and is held by Patent under the Great Seal These Great Norman Abbots had not only the Nomination but the Tythes also of all the Parishes in this Island A small Proportion as the 3 d 7 th 8 th 9 th or 10 th Sheaf of the said Impropriated Tythes being reserved for those that ministred at the Altar These Impropriations at the Dissolution of Monasteries in England instead of returning to the Church were annexed to the Crown and are become part of the King's Revenue in the Island Much the same Proportion as before being still allotted to the Incumbents together with the Novals or Desarts which are the Tythes of Lands that remained wast and untill'd at the Suppression of those Houses but have been since converted into Arable The following Scheme drawn out of the Black-Book of Coûtance like that in the Exchequer will shew what that Proportion was and what the King enjoys now in right of the dispossessed Abbots Vniversis praesentes Literas inspecturis Officialis Constantiensis Salutem Notum facimus quod nos ad Requestam Religiosorum Virorum Abbatis Conventûs Sancti Salvatoris Vicecomitis visitavimus legimus inspeximus atque visitari legi inspici fecimus quendam Librum in Domo seu Manerio Episcopali Constantiensi existentem vulgariter Librum Nigrum nuncupatum in quo vidimus legimus nonnullas Clausulas Ecclesias Beneficia Insulae JERSEY de eis cum praefato Libro Nigro collationem fecimus diligenter Quarum quidam Clausularum Tenor sequitur de verbo ad verbum est talis Ecclesia Sancti Breverlardi Patronus Abbas S. Salvatoris Vicecomitis percipit duas partes Garbarum Rector sextam Abatissa de Cadomo duodecimam Abbatissa Vilmonasterii duodecimam Rector item habet sex Virgas Eleemosynae Et valet dicta Ecclesia Annis communibus XXX Lib. Turonens Ecclesia Sancti Petri. Patronus Abbas S. Salvatoris Vicecom Et percipit medietatem Garbarum Abbatissa Cadomensis quartam Garbam Abbatissa Vilmonasteriensis aliam quartam exceptâ carucatâ de Nobretez Rector percipit novalia habet VIII Virgas Terrae Eleemosynae valet XXX Lib. Turon Ecclesia de Trinitate Patronus Abbas Caesaris-Burgi Abbas S. Salvatoris percipit sextam Garbam Abbas Caesaris-Burgi tertiam liberam Decimam Episcopus Auritanus medietatem Garbarum Rector percipit novalia habet VIII Virgas Eleemosynae valet communibus Annis XXX Lib. Turon Ecclesia Beatae Mariae Patronus Abbas Caesariensis Abbas S. Salvatoris Vice-com percipit sextam Garbam Abbatissa Cadomensis Monasterii Villers quartam partem Decimae Garbarum Rector percipit tertiam partem Garbarum habet XVI Virgas Eleemosynae valet XXX Lib. Turon Ecclesia Sancti Johannis Patronus Abbas S. Salvatoris Vicecom percipit totam Decimam Ecclesia ibidem Prioratus ejusdem Monasterii Et sunt ibi duae Virgae Eleemosynae valet XXVIII Lib. Turon Ecclesia Sancti Audoeni Patronus Abbas S. Michaelis in periculo Maris percipit ibi duas Garbas IV Lib.
the Count or Governor Loyescon and all the Inhabitants came over to the Faith He died in this Island and was buried in a little Chappel erected to his Memory in the Parish of St. Saviour hard by the Free-School called from him to this day St. Magloire corruptly St. Manlier About 250 years after this Island being much infested by the Danes and Normans his Body which after the manner of those times was visited by Pilgrims from all Parts was by command of Neomenius King of Bretagne transported thither and deposited in the little Priory of Lehon near Dinant built for its Reception where it rested 66 years But the Normans entring into Bretagne also it was removed again and translated to Chartres and at last to Paris where it lies in the Royal Chappel of St. Bartholomew now become an Abby under the Name of St. Barthelemi Saint Magloire This was the Instrument which God was pleased to make use of to bring the Inhabitants of this Isle to the knowledge of himself who were before Gentiles and Idolaters While St. Magloire was living and doing the Work of an Evangelist amongst Us Pretextatus Archbishop of Rouen in Normandy oppressed by the hatred and Calumnies of Fredegund Wife of Chilperic King of France was banished here into JERSEY He associated himself to St. Magloire and with great Zeal and Fervency laboured with him in Preaching the Gospel and carrying on the work of God in this Island Being recalled from Banishment and restored to his See he was sometime after murdered in his Church by Command of that cruel Woman for which he has been deservedly reputed a Martyr according to the following Distych of Orderic Uticensis Occubuit Martyr Pretextatus Fredegundis Reginae Monitu pro Christi nomine Jesu What progress Christianity made in JERSEY appears from the Foundation of Twelve Parish-Churches which have a Beauty and Solidity beyond what is usually seen in ordinary Country Churches A noble and stately Abby that of S. Helier Four Priories viz. Noirmont S. Clement Bonnenuit and de Leck and above twenty Chappels of which the greater part are now in rubbish Of those that are left standing there are two of special Note The one is La Chapelle de Nostre Dame des Pas so called from a pretended Apparition of the blessed Virgin and the impression of her Footsteps in the Rock whereon the Chappel stands The other is la Hougue so called from a high Artificial Hill on the top whereof it is loftily seated For Hougue in French is properly what the Latines call Agger or Tumulus i. e. a Mount of Turf or Earth made with hands and raised more or less above the circumjacent Level And those Aggeres or Tumuli were in former days raised on the Bodies of Heroes and Great men slain in the Wars raised I say in the Field and on the very place where they fell And such I take the Hougue in JERSEY to be The Old Tradition is that a Gentleman of Normandy coming into this Island was there slain and that his Wife caused this noble Monument to be erected over him carrying it up to that height purposely that from her house in Normandy she might have a prospect of the Place where lay the Ashes of him whose Memory was so dear to her even then when he was but cold Earth The Chappel on the top I guess to have been added for Masses to be said therein for the Soul of the Deceased according to the Superstition of those days And this I take to be the best account that can be given of this ancient Chappel and the Moles on which it is erected which differs from that of Mr. Poingdestre who thinks this Eminency was raised at the time that the Danes and other Northern Nations made their inroads into this Island and was designed for a Specula or Watch-Hill to discover them at Sea and to give Notice of their approach and that the Chappel was built long after by one Mabon who was Dean of this Island about the Year 1520 Mabon indeed did cause the East end to be new built and a passage with a Repository under ground and under the Altar to be made in imitation of the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem where he had sometimes been I shall pass over those dark Ages of Popery which too soon followed the Planting of Christianity in this Island and shall hasten to give some account of the State of Religion here from the Reformation The same Change of Religion that was made in England in the Reign of K. Edward VI was made here also The English Liturgy was translated into French and sent hither In Q. Mary's time the Mass was set up again as it was in England But through a singular Mercy of God the Persecution did not rage here as it did there While that Queen made Bonfires of Protestants in England Richard Averty a Popish Priest in this Island was hanged for Murder by Sentence of the Royal Court He was a great Enemy and Persecutor of the married Clergy but himself at the same time kept a Whore who being brought to bed he to conceal his Shame murdered the Infant unknown to the Mother for which he was apprehended and notwithstanding the opposition of Pawlet the Popish Dean who would have had him convened before the Bishop of Coûtance as his proper Judge suffered as he deserved This must seem an Action of great Boldness and Resolution in the Court at that time to any that considers the Power and Interest of the Popish Clergy under that Reign It was not so in Guernesey There such an Act of Cruelty was committed as is not to be matched by any thing we meet with in ancient or modern Martyrologies A poor aged Widow and her two Daughters whereof one named Perrotine Massey was the Wife of a Minister who was fled because of the Persecution were condemned to be burnt for Heresie The Ministers Wife was big with Child When she came to suffer her Belly burst through the violence of the Flame and a lovely Boy issued forth who falling gently on the Fagots tumbled off without receiving any injury from the Fire The Child was taken up and carried to the Dean and Magistrates who sent it back and ordered it to be thrown in with the Mother The cruel Command was obeyed and the innocent Babe was baptized in Fire Upon Q. Elizabeth's happy Inauguration her first Care was the Settlement of Religion But in this Island we fell into the other extreme 'T is well known what Persecutions the French Protestants suffered under the Reigns of Francis I Henry II Francis II Charles IX and Henry III. The Neighbourhood of this Island invited great numbers of them and among them some of their Ministers to take Sanctuary here and their Example soon begot in the minds of too many of our People a dislike of the English Reformation wherein also they were too much