The History of Guernsey And Its Bailiwick With Occasional Notices of Jersey
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380 HISTORY OF GUERNSEY. convocation of the States, the thanks of that body were pre- sented to all who were engaged in suppressing the mutiny, and one hundred guineas were voted to be distributed among the men of the Royal Irish, and of the regular artillery. Although the Reformation was introduced into these islands by Henry VIII. , it does not appear to have been legally esta- blished in Jersey until the year 1548, or the second of Edward VI. , and such was probably the case in Guernsey. Two... years later, April 15, 1550, Edward confirmed the authority of the Roman CathoHc bishop of Coutances over the Protestant islanders! In 1565, the Anglican was superseded by the Calvinist discipline ; and in turn, about a century later in Guernsey, the Church of England prevailed, and Presby- terianism was forcibly suppressed by Charles II. , who lived and died a Roman Catholic ! The affection of the people of Guernsey for Calvinism gradually died away, so that Dicey, in 1750, said : " Dissenters they have none.
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