be finished, and Masters and Vshers therein settled, and alsoe that three hundred Livers turnois, part of the remainder of the said revenue hereby ariseing, shall be yearely and every yeare imployed for the erecting and building of a convenient house, and for and towards the raiseing and maintayning of a Stoke of Money to bee used for the sitting to worke and orderly governing of Poore and idle people, the relief of decayed Tradesman and the correction and restraint of Vagabonds and Beggers within the said Isle, and whereas wee are credibly informed that the Ínhabitants of the said Isle have long intended to erect and build a peere in Saint Albans near the said Isle, for the better security of Marchants and others that shall repaire thither for trade and Commerce with the inhabitants thereof, and that as well in the makeing and building thereof as also in the mainteynance of the same being perfected divers great summes of money must of necessity bee expended. Wee doe alsoe declare that our expresse command and pleasure is that all the rest and residue of the said revenue hereinbefore mentioned, to be hereby granted subject to the charges and payment to bee made as aforesaid, shall be by the said Bayliffe and Juratts of the said Isle and theire successors from tyme to tyme, erection of the said Peere, and when the same shall bee fully employed and expended for and towards the full and perfect made and perfected, then one moyatie of the said rest and residue of the said Revenue shall bee from time to time employed and disposed for the improvement and advantage of the said schoole, colledge or academy, and that the other moyetie thereof, shall be from time to time employed and disposed for such other publique uses of and for the said Island as the Governor, Bayliffe and Juratts thereof, for the time being or the major part of them, whereof the Governor and Bayliffe to be two, shall from tyme to tyme thinke fitt an direct and for a further supply towards the building and maintayning of the said Peere, and for the better helpe and assistance of the said Inhabitants in doeing the same and theire encouragement to proceed therein. Wee have alsoe of our more especiall grace and meere motion given and granted, and by these presents for us our heires and successors doe give and grant full power and lawfull authority unto the said Bayliffe and Juratts and theire successors, that they and theire successors shall and may from tyme to tyme for ever from and after the said feast of Saint Michaell the Archangell now next comeing, law fully and freely by themselves or by any others authorised by their demand, take leavy, perceive and receive for and towards the building and repaireing of the said Peere from tyme to tyme of and for all and singular weares, merchandizes, shipps and other things from tyme to tyme, imported and to be imported and brought into the said Isle, such and the like summe and summes of money and Customes, commonly called Petty Customes, and in the name of Petty Customes, as the Bayliffe and Juratts of our Isle of Guernsey have hithertoe lawfully demanded, taken levyed and received of and for the like shipps or merchandise imported or brought into that Isle, for the mainteynance and repairs of theire Peere there, and for the better and more effectuall raiseing and settling the revenue hereby appointed to bee raysed. Wee doe further declare our will and pleasure to bee, and we doe direct and appoint that the management and disposall thereof for the ends and purposes aforesaid, shall wholly remayne and bee in the Bayliffe and Juratts of the said Isle, and theire successors for the tyme beeing with the advice and approbation of the Governor of the said Isle, and that nothing shall bee acted therein, without the advice and consent of the said Governor and Bayliffe and Juratts or the major part of them, whereof the Governor and Bayliffe for the tyme beeing shall allways bee two subject nevertheless, and always reserving the liberty and authority hereby given to the said Sir George Carterett as aforesaid, and to the intent that this our pleasure may be the better effected, and that the whole benefitt of this Revenue maye from tyme to ty me bee employed to the uses before particularly expressed for the good of the Isle, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents without diversion or diminution. Wee doe by these presents give unto the said Bayliffe and Juratts of our said Isle of Jersey and their successors, full power, licence, and authority from tyme to tyme as they shall find itt most expedient to demise, and lett to forme the benefitts and profitts hereby to arise or any part or parts thereof, to such person or persons as will give most for the same, or if they shall thinke fitt to have and keepe the management of the same in theire owne hand, then to depute, nominate, and appoint such subordinate officers, collectors and receivers, for E in or the leveing and collecting thereof, as they shall thinke necessary and convenient, and all persons which shall bee employed as well in the receipt of the rent or revenues thereupon ariseing, as alsoe in the disbursement of the same to the uses before specifyed, shall from tyme to tyme yearlly make accompt of theire receipt and disbursement of the said rentes and Revenues in the publique Assembly of the States of the said Isle, which accompt also shall be subject to the examination of the Governor, Bayliffe and Juratts or the major part of them, whereof the Governor and Bayliffe for the time being to bee two, and a true coppy thereof shall be yearely transmitted to the Clarke of our Councill in attendance, to the end that the same may bee inspected by us in Councill; and iff, in the execution of any matter to be committed to the charge or care of any person or persons about the premises, any offence or fault bee in them found by the concealing, diverting, or imbezzeling any of the rents or profitts hereby araiseing, so that the uses and purposes before mentioned, are defrauded or defeated. Our Will and pleasure is that such person or persons soe offending, shall be subject to such fine, imprisonment and punishment, as unto the said Governor, Bayliffe, and Juratts, or the major part of them upon due consideration of the quality of the offence shall seem just and convenient, and which may be inflicted by them or any of them, according to law. Provided all ways and our expresse will and pleasure is that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Bayliffe and Juratts, and theire successors for the time beeing, or the major part of them, with the advice of the Governor or Lieutenant of the said Isle for the time being, to convert and employ soe much and such part or parts of the dutyes and summes of money hereby granted, as they shall thinke necessary for and towards the provideing a Magazine of arms for the diffence of the said Island soe as the money to bee for that purpose employed doe not for the first two yeares exceed the moyetie of the whole revenue and profitt hereby intended to be granted, and further, that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Sir George Carterett with the advice and approbation of the Bishop of Winton for the time being, to forme and establish such lawes, constitutions and ordinances, for the good and orderly government and regulation of the schoole, colledge, or academy aforesaid, as shall bee thought fitt and agreeable to Justice, any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding, although express mention of the true yearely value or certainty of the premises, or any of them, or of any other guift or grant by us or by any of our progenitors or predecessors, heretofore made to the said Bayliffe and Juratts of the Isle of Jersey and theire successors in these presents is not made, or any statute, act, ordinance, provision, proclamation or restriction heretofore had made enacted ordeyned or provided, or any other matter cause or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding. In Witness whereof, wee have caused these our letters to bee made patents. Witness ourselfe at Westminster, the fourteenth day of April, in the one and twentieth yeare of our Raigne. By Writt of Privy Seale, PIGOTT. ECCLESIASTICAL COURT. The spiritual jurisdiction is committed to the Dean, (and in his absence to the Vice-Dean) who holds an Ecclesiastical Court, observing the same terms as those for secular affairs, in which he is assisted by the Rectors of the different parishes. Suitors have the right of appealing after judgment to the Bishop of Winchester, and in case of a vacancy in that see to the Archbishop of Canterbury and cases thus brought before them, they are in person obliged to attend to; their decision is said to be irreversible, and that no ulterior proceedings are allowed. The Deanery is in the gift of the Crown, and it is always accompanied by one of the parochial benefices, which are now in the patronage of the Governor of Jersey, though for some time after the seizure of Church property by Henry the Eighth, the right was exercised by the King; previously to which it belonged to the Abbots of Normandy, who also claimed and received as their due, a great proportion of the tythes. Pluralities are interdicted by the Ecclesiastical canons. The laws are all founded on the canons of James the First, which were framed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lincoln and the Bishop of Winchester, and received the Royal assent in the year 1623, under the sign manual. These canons granted to the Dean the power of bestowing licences for marriage-the entry and probate of wills which must be registered in his office and approved under his seal, and letters of administration of the goods of intestates dying without heirs of their body to the next of kindred, and to exercise the power of a consistory Court. As the Island is in the diocese of Winchester, under which see it was placed by an Order in Council, dated 11th March 1568, the Bishop exercises the prerogative of consecrating places of worship, administering the rights of Confirmation, Ordination and granting institutions to livings on the presentation of the Governor. MEMBERS OF THE COURT. JUDGE.-The Very Revd. Francis Jeune, D.C.L. Dean of Jersey. ASSESSORS.-Revds. John Mallet, Rector of Grouville, George Duheaume, M.A. Rector of St. Lauren's, John Thomas Ahier, Rector of Trinity, George Balleine, Rector of St. Martin, Ph. Filleul, M.A. Rector of St. Peter, and Vice-Dean, Philip Dupre, Rector of St. John, Ed. Durell, M.A. Rector of St. Saviour, Ph. Aubin, B.H. Rector of St. Clement, Philip Payn, Rector of St. Ouen, Edw. alle, M.A. Rector of St. Brelade, Philip Guille, M.A. Rector of St. Mary. GREFFIER.-John William Dupre, Esq. APPARITOR.--Jos. Jandron. SUMMONING-OFFICERS.-The Clerks of the 12 parishes. CANONS AND CONSTITUTIONS. The following are the canons and constitutions which received his royal assent, June the 30th, 1623; and which are observed to this day. JAMES by the grace of God, king of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. To our right trusty and well beloved councellor, the reverend father in God Lancelot bishop of Winton; and to our trusty and well beloved Sir Joha Peyton, knight, governor of our isle of Jarsey, and to the governor of the said isle for the time being; to the bailiff and jurats of the said isle for the time being; and to the officers, ministers and inhabitants of the said isle for the time being; to whom it shall or may appertain greeting. Whereas we held it fitting heretofore, upon the admission of the now dean of that island unto his place, in the interim, (until we might be |