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40 A BAY IN AI/DEKNEY.
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gem of the island , the beautiful church . Never _having heard anything of this fine building , we were astonished to find anything -so
Imposing towering over the small dwellings of the fishermen and shopkeepers . It is a cruciform structure , built in the style of the ?
transition from Norman to Early English , and consists of a nave and aislestransepts , towerand chancel , and contains free seats for
, , nine hundred people . The history of it is very touching :- —Someyears ago Colonel Le Mesurier , hereditary governor of Alderney ,
married a lady whose virtues and acquirements rendered her not only a blessing to her husband but also to the island . Their union
was a happy one , and only one thing disturbed their felicity , namely ,, the absence of offspring . After thirteen years , it at last pleased
Heaven to send them two sons ; and overjoyed at the success of their prayers , the worthy parents established a school , projected a new
church , and dedicated their youngest son , afterwards the Reverenii John Le Mesurier , to God's more peculiar service , by bringing him
up with the idea of entering holy orders . They did not live to carry out their plans , but their second son survived his brother
, and this church is the monument of his zeal for God's service and his respect for his parents' wishes .
This is the modern poem I alluded to . The ancient one is as follows : —In the early days of the Gospel , St . Magloire was head
of the monastery of Sark . Sad tales reached him of the rapine and lawlessness committed by the wreckers of Alderney , and often ,
as he stood on the coast of his own quiet island and looked at the blue line of the less favored shoTe , he sighed heavily and
longed with all his soul to convert the savages who inhabited it from the error of their ways . At last he fixed upon a suitable
instrument . A monk called Vignal was renowned in the monastery for tli &
austerity of his life and for the strength of his will . Upon him did St . Magloire fix . to carry the news of salvation to the unquiet
islanders , and by him , without hesitation , was the dangerous mission _, accepted . And in truth it needed no slight bravery to encounter
perils like these . A little time before , a Spanish ship laden with _, treasure , with noble knights and ladies , was sailing one tempestuous
night near those rugged shores ; amid the darkness and the howling of the storm she struck upon the Casket rocks . Straining
their eyes to watch the slowly-coming dawn , the fearful passengers _, to their great joy at last beheld a crowd of boats approaching the
wreck , to which they clung in their agony . But their hearts sunk within them as they perceived the crews to consist of barbarians ,
whose faces betrayed no compassion for their lot . These savages swarmed up the sides of the wreck and soon pillaged it of every
valuable ; whilst the unarmed passengers hoped against hope that when their greed was satisfied they would save the lives of those on :
board . And for a moment these hopes seemed likely to be realised .
The savages beckoned the Spaniards to their boats , and seated theni .
40 A Bay In Ai/Dekney.
40 A BAY IN AI / DEKNEY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 40, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/40/
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