4102) The Witch Trials of Jersey, A British Crown Dependency (BCD), Channel Island, United Kingdom (UK): Jersey Post, has issued a set of eight Postage Stamps highlighting the Witch Trials which peaked in the 1560s – 1660s: Date/Year of Stamp set issue: 11.06.2025:
Jersey's latest issue "Witch Trials of Jersey" illustrated by
Petra Dufkova (an award-winning Czech Republic artist) delves into the history of the trials including some of the
individuals, events and superstition involved during the island’s witch hunting
peak in the 1560s – 1660s.
Known as the Atlantic capital of witch hunting due to the percentage of those accused in proportion to the amount of residents on the island, the stamp set sheds a small light on those accused of witchcraft and the various moments and elements of the trials.
The trials took place over a course of 160 years between 1500 to 1660 and resulted to over sixty trials, thirty-three executions and eight banishments.
A high number of accusations unsurprisingly appeared following life changing events such as the plague, Civil War and the Puritan Era.
Of those accused of witchcraft over 80% of them were women.
However, men were not completely safe from scrutiny as was the case for one such man highlighted within the issue.
The Channel Islands Witch Trials were a series of witch
trials in the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey between 1562 and 1661.
The Build up:
The Reformation saw the separation of the Church of
England (or Anglican Church) from Rome under Henry VIII, beginning in 1529 and
completed in 1537.
In France, John Calvin began publishing his thoughts in
1536 resulting in his fleeing the country, going first to Geneva then
Strasbourg, where Calvinism became a significant religion with Switzerland, the
Netherlands, Sweden and John David Jarvis in Guernsey adopting the religion in
preference to the Roman Catholic Church from which they broke away.
This led to persecution by Catholics of non-believers and
the fleeing of members of the Reformed Church of France, the Huguenots, some of
which found refuge in the Channel Islands.
The Islands had retained Roman Catholic Priests, partly
due to the island churches being responsible to the Roman Catholic Diocese of
Coutances, partly as a result of a shortage of French speaking Protestant
priests and partly due to Mary, a Roman Catholic, being on the throne in
England from 1553 to 1558.
During this period a number of Protestants fled the
islands, Thomas Bertran, a Jersey Minister fleeing in 1556, a Guernsey merchant
Guillaume de Beauvoir becoming a Dean of the English Church in Geneva in 1556,
where John Knox and Christopher Goodman were the pastors.
The highly influential English language
Geneva Bible was first printed in that city in 1557.
In Geneva John Calvin had
people arrested, tortured, and executed. Suspected witches were also tortured
and burnt by Protestant leaders, though more often they were banished from the
city.
Calvinism:
The death of Mary I and the arrival of Elizabeth I of
England coincided with the arrival of the Huguenots in the islands, with them
came a number of French speaking priests of the Protestant Calvinist faith.
The
Bishop of Coutances lost his influence with the appointment of the Bishop of
Winchester over the island churches, so ending all Catholic influence in the
islands.
The Bailiff, Hellier Gosselin and the Roman Catholic
élite of the island were subjected to a series of commissions and
investigations encompassing not only the circumstances of the execution of the
women, but also embezzlement; James Amy, the Dean, was committed to prison in
Castle Cornet and dispossessed of his living. Hellier Gosselin was dismissed
from his post in 1562 but along with the Jurats managed to obtain a pardon from
Queen Elizabeth.
The French Wars of Religion from 1562 to 1598 increased
the number of Protestant refugees arriving in the islands.
Calvinism is a very strict form of Protestantism and the
islands found their churches being changed with the removal of paintings and
religious symbols such as statues, decorated altars and fonts and the removal
of crosses. By using the Ecclesiastical courts in the islands they enforced
compulsory attendance at church twice every Sunday, bans of gambling and
dancing and many other restrictions, especially on Sundays, upon pain of
flogging, locking in stocks, imprisonment in the town cages or in castle dungeons.
More on the Jersey Witch Trials:
Between 1550 and 1650 at least 100 people were accused of
witchcraft in Guernsey. Torture was used to force a confession to practicing
witchcraft, after which the convicted were flogged, banished, hanged, strangled
or burnt at the stake.
- Ann of St Brelade in 1562 was the first witch trial in
Jersey.
- Paquette Le Vesconte, from Jersey, who had previously
been arrested for witchcraft and banished from the island, returned and still
using so called "diabolical devices and spells", was rearrested,
tortured and "confessed that she had entered into partnership with the
Devil, and by his help perpetrated innumerable crimes and homicides".
- Jean Morant in Jersey, confessed to "a contract with
the Devil.. by mark and pact.. by means of which he had committed infinite
mischiefs, crimes and homicides".
- Symon Vaudin in Jersey, confessed that he "had at
divers times help familiar intercourse and talks with the Devil, who appeared
as a cat and then as a crow".
Marie Tougis in Jersey, confessed "that she had
caused the death of a child and bewitched a woman".
- Peronelle Chevallier, wife of Robert Falla, was condemned
to be "strangled at the post at the place of execution and there be burnt
and her body consumed and reduced to ash and all her goods and property
confiscated into the hands of our sovereign lady the Queen Elizabeth I”, in
Jersey in 1597.
Elizabeth Grandin from Jersey was arrested for witchcraft
but released with a warning "not to gad about the island".
Marie de Callais, from Calais Lane, St Martin in Guernsey
was convicted of witchcraft, one of several in the coven at Le Châté Rocquôine
and burnt at the stake on 17 October 1617. Two of her family were banished.
Mary Blanche, of a good family who lived in the area Les
Blanches in St Martin, Guernsey, was condemned as a witch by the then Bailiff,
Amice de Carteret and died in October 1622.
Thomas Tougis, Jouane Tougis, his daughter, and Michelle
Chivret wife of Pierre Osmont were accused in 1622 of "long practised the
horrible and heinous crime of sorcery" and kept imprisoned at Castle
Cornet in Guernsey whilst "examined on various particulars", found
guilty of having "committed various murders, smitten with debility several
persons, made die many animals, and perpetrated a number of injuries",
they were sentenced to be executed by being tied to a post on a scaffold, then
burnt to death.
Isabel Becquet confessed "a woman she did not
know", then "six others whom she also did not know" to be
witches, she, along with her daughter Marie "were condemned to be taken
with halters round their necks to the place of execution, there tied by the
executioner to a post, and strangled and then burnt until their flesh and bones
are reduced to ashes and the ashes scattered".
Marie Esnouf was the granddaughter of the Rector of Saint
John, Jersey, but was executed in 1648, after having her head shaven, and
witches marks found.
The trials ceased with the Act of Uniformity 1662 of
Charles II of England which imposed the “Book of Common Prayer”
and brought together Anglican and non-conformist religions, although it took a
few years in the islands due to the spoken language being French.
Not all deaths were the result of trials.
In Jersey "Elizabeth Gavey was buried alive on the
29th day (of March 1765). She was found dead on the morning of the 28th near La
Mare d’Angot at Ville a l’Eveque.
Killed by miserable superstitious people accusing her of
sorcery who after having cruelly mistreated her caused her to die, throwing
there her poor body. She was a poor innocent, who was thus born and lived all
her life a poor innocent."
There is a link to the Salem witch trials:
Philippe d’Anglois (Philip English), was born in Jersey
of Huguenot descent and emigrated to Salem in the 1670s and was one of those
arrested.
The last witch trial in Jersey was John Jarvis in 1736 by
which time at least 66 had been accused in the island.
The Stamp set issued by Jersey Post:
- Illustrated by Petra Dufkova an award-winning Czech Republic artist each piece of artwork creates a haunting reflection of a darker element to the island’s past.
- Following the increasing interest and latest information surrounding the witch trials in Jersey the philatelic team within Jersey Post have issued Witch Trials in Jersey are available from Sunday 31st August 2025.
The Header showcases on of the accused women of witchcraft in front of a Church.The Eight Stamps Set
The Stamps Presentation Pack (PP)
This Presentation Pack encloses the stamp set from our 'Witch Trials of Jersey' issue. Illustrated by Petra Dufkova.
This Presentation Pack is an exclusively produced full-colour folder; the stamps are carefully mounted within a custom board to ensure they stay in pristine mint condition. Information and technical details of the issue are printed on the inside of the folder.
The Presentation Pack (PP) contains the Miniature Sheet printed by Cartor Security Printers France.
The pack contains information about the Witch Trials of Jersey, which took place between the early 1500s to late 1600s.
The Miniature Sheet (MS)The Miniature Sheet (MS) depicts a crowd gathering for the execution of Marie Esnouf who was sentenced to death in 1648. Her execution was said to have drawn crowds that hadn't been seen since the Prince visited Jersey.
The First Day Cover (FDC) with the Stamps affixed thereon.
Witch Trials of Jersey - Stamps First Day Cover
This First Day Cover displays the stamp set from our 'Witch Trials of Jersey' issue. Illustrated by Petra Dufkova.
This First Day Cover is an exclusively produced item; all the stamps are affixed to a specially commissioned full-colour envelope and cancelled with a Jersey Post First Day of Issue special date stamp.
Information and technical details of the issue are printed on the reverse.
The First Day Cover (FDC) with the Cancelled Souvenir Sheet affixed thereto.Witch Trials of Jersey - Souvenir Sheetlet First Day Cover
This First Day Cover displays the souvenir sheetlet from our 'Witch Trials of Jersey' issue. Illustrated by Petra Dufkova.
This First Day Cover is an exclusively produced item; all the stamps are affixed to a specially commissioned full-colour envelope and cancelled with a Jersey Post First Day of Issue special date stamp. Information and technical details of the issue are printed on the reverse.
This souvenir sheetlet is from the 'Witch Trials of Jersey' issue.
The individual Stamp Sheets with 10 Stamps each.
The stamp sheets give the discerning collector access to all the printer’s marks and any additional information on the selvedges. The selvedges include the traffic lights which is a term used by collectors to denote the check dots (or colour dabs) printed in the sheet margins of stamps printed by modern offset litho or photogravure methods. They assist in checking that all the colours have printed correctly.
Most of the selvedge sheets also contain a plate number; a numeral, occasionally with a letter suffix, usually inscribed on the sheet margins to denote the plate from which the stamps were printed - for example 1A. All products are carefully prepared by Jersey Post's team and supplied in glassine bags to ensure that the purchaser receives them in pristine condition.
Witch Trials of Jersey - Prestige Booklet:
The Witch Trials of Jersey prestige booklet contains
three full sets of stamps, block perforated in three exclusive panes. The
booklet delves into the various individuals involved throughout the trials and
offers an insight into a darker moment within the Jersey's history.
The Technical Details:
Date of issue: 11-06-2025
Withdrawal date: 11-06-2027
Printer: Breber,
New Zealand
Process: four
colour (CMYK) process lithography
Denominations: 80p,
£1.20, £1.35, £1.90, £2.30, £3.00, £3.90, £4.85.
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54) The Calf Of Man Nature Reserve", Isle of Man, A British Crown Dependency (BCD): 75th Anniversary" Celebrations (1946-2021): A set of ten Stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post (IOMP) commemorating the milestone of this Biosphere Island: (Also includes the EUROPA Stamp on "Endangered National Wildlife" theme designated by PostEurop for 2021): Date of Stamps issue: 12.04.2021
55) "The Who", United Kingdom: The iconic Rock Group features on the latest "British Music Legends" Collector Coin Series issues from the Royal Mint UK: Date of Coin Release: 24.05.2021
56) "Sark - Dark Sky Island", Guernsey, A British Crown Dependency (BCD): This "GuernseyTogether" Series of stamps by Guernsey Post features drawings made by Sark school-children: Date of stamp set issue: 19.08.2020
57) Surfing in Jersey, a British Crown Dependency (BCD): A set if six stamps issued by Jersey Post featuring contemporary photographs taken by Jersey photographers: Date of Stamp Set issie: 18.05.2021
58) Dennis and Gnasher, United Kingdom: 70th Anniversary (1951-2021): A set of six Stamps issued by Royal Mail, UK, featuring the popular comic strip: Date of Stamp Set issue: 01.07.2021
59) The Palace of Westminster, United Kingdom: 10th Anniversary molestone (1870-2020): Royal Mail UK has issued a set of Ten Stamps featuring the iconic Palace: Date/Year of Coin issue: 30.07.2020
60) Industrial Revolutions, United Kingdom: Royal Mail, UK has brought out a set of stamps featuring the Industrial Revolutions: Date of Stamp Set issue: 12.08.2021
61) Frances Hodgson Burnett and "The Secret Garden", Alderney, A British Crown Dependency (BCD): A set of six postage stamps issued by Guernsey Post on behalf of Aldernay Islands: Date of Stamp set issue: 01.09.2021
62) "75th Anniversary of MENSA" (1946-2021", Isle of Man, A British Crown Dependency (BCD): A set of six stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post (IOMP): Date of Stamp Set issue: 01.10.2021
63) Non-Value Indicator (NVI) Definitive Stamps, United Kingdom (UK): Date of Stamps issue: 01.02.2022
64) "Heart of the Forest", Guernsey , A British Crown Dependency (BCD): Guernsey Post has brought out the first part of a Stamp quartet which takes inspiration from the "Love Paper" Global Campaign: Date/Year of Stamp issue: 09.02.2022
65) Harvest of the Sea, Jersey, A British Crown Dependency (BCD): Jersey Post has issued a set of six stamps depicting six different sea foods: Date/Year of Stamp set issue: 17.02.2022
87) "Flowers", United Kingdom (UK): A Presentation Pack set of ten 1st Class Stamps issued by the Royal Mail, UK depicting - Sweet Pea, Iris, Lily, Sunflower, Fuschsia, Tulip, Peony, Nasturtium, Rose and Dahlia Flower varieties: Date/Year of Presentation Pack issue: 2023
Innovations in Science 50 Pence Coin Series:
Music Legends Coin Series:
1) "The Who", United Kingdom: The iconic Rock Group features on the latest "British Music Legends" Collector Coin Series issues from the Royal Mint UK: Date of Coin Release: 24.05.2021
2) Music Giants III, QUEEN, UK: A comprehensive Coin and Stamps Combo issued by the Royal Mail UK in collaboration with the Queen Band and the Royal Mint, UK: Date of Coin & Stamp combo issue: 09.06.2020
3) "Rolling Stones", United Kingdom: "Music Legends Coin Series": Fifth Coin in the Series: Gold, Silver and Cupro-nickel Coins feature the timeless Rock Band: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2022
4) 50 Years of Pink Floyd: Two Commemorative Stamp sets (Presentation Sets) brought out by the Royal Mail, UK on 07.07.2016: 1) 50 Years of Pink Floyd: A set of six stamps issued, their most popular studio albums 2) Legendary Live Performances: A set of four stamps issued depicting four of their memorable tours
5) "Yellow Submarine", A song sung by the English Rock Band - "The Beatles" in 1966, Gibraltar: A 5 Pounds Silver Coin minted by the crown Mint features the iconic song sung by the legendary Rock Group: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2022
6) Iron Maiden (a Heavy Metal English Band), United Kingdom (UK): A set of eight stamps issued on the legendary Band by Royal Mail UK: Date of Stamp set issue: 12.01.2023
7) "Shirley Bassey", United Kingdom: "Music Legends Coin Series": Sixth Coin in the Series minted in Cupro-nickel, Gold and Silver features the timeless Diva who gave the title songs in three James Bond movies - "Diamonds ae Forever", "Moonraker" and Goldfinger": Date/Year of Coin issue: 2023
Links to "Great Engravers Coin Series":
1) "William Wyon", United Kingdom (UK): "Great Engravers Coin Series": First Coin in the Series features Wyon's Gothic Crown in Gold and Silver: Date/Year of Coin issue: 06.12.2021
2) "William Wyon", United Kingdom (UK): "Great Engravers Coin Series": Second Coin in the Series featuring the Obverse of Wyon's Gothic Crown in Gold and Silver: Date/Year of Coin issue: 02/2022 (with Date of issue marked as 2021)
3) "The Petition Crown", United Kingdom: "Master Engravers Coin Series": Thomas Simon's Crown Coin designed as a direct response to the newly restored King Charles II to consider his own work for use on English coinage: Date/Year of Coin issue: 2023
Royal Mail Designs based on Bernadetto Pistrucci's concepts
The World of David Walliams Coin Series:
Posts on the UK Coins and Stamps:
"Tales of the Earth Coin Series": The Second Dinosaurs Collector Coin Series:
i) Prehistoric Temnodontosaurus, United Kingdom: "Tales of the earth Coin Series": First coin in the "Second Dinosaurs Collector Coin Series" features on Gold, Silver & Cupro-nickel 50 Pence Coin Variants: Date/Year of Coin issue: 25.02.2021 Variants
Myths & Legends Coin Series:
1) "ROBIN HOOD", United Kingdom: "Myths and Legends Coin Series": First Coin in the Series: Silver 2 UKP (2 Pounds) and Gold 100 UKP(100 Pounds) Bullion Coins issued by the Royal Mint UK featuring the famed/legendary Outlaw: Year of Coin issue: 2021
2) The Legend of Robin Hood, United Kingdom: Royal Mail, UK has issued a set of ten postage stamps depicting the legend of Robin Hood: Date of Stamp Set issue: 13.04.2023
3) "MERLIN", United Kingdom: "Myths and Legends Coin Series": Second Bullion Coin in the Series: Silver 2 UK Pounds & 5 UK Pounds and Gold 25 and 100 UK Pounds Bullion Coins and 5 Pounds Cupro-nickel issued by the Royal Mint UK featuring the legendary wizard: Year of Coin issue: 2023
A Tribute to the Life of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022):
i) A Tribute to the Life of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) featuring "The Royal Cipher", British Antarctic Territory (BAT), "Proclamation", South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (SG & SSI), "Double Portrait", Falkland Islands: Pobjoy Mint, UK has brought out a limited edition 3-Coin 50 Pence Set with Pearl Black Finish and Privy Mark: Year of Coin issue: 2022:
"The Queen's Beasts" Coin Series, UK issues:
"Tales of the Earth - Dinosauria" Coin Series, UK issues:
Links to some other interesting posts from the British Isles and British Overseas Territories/Dependencies:
Central Bank of Ireland issues:
22) "Medusa The Gorgon": British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT): A Silver Double Crown (4 Pounds), 2 Oz High relief Coin with antique Finish: Fourth Coin in the series titled "Mythical Creatures" issued by Pobjoy Mint UK on behalf of BIOT in 09/2018
27) Concorde, a Stamp set from Gibraltar, A British Overseas Territory (BOT): 50th Anniversary of the first Supersonic Passenger Carrying Airplane, jointly built by France and Great Britain: Stamp set issue date: 20.04.2019
30) Manannan, the First King of Isle of Man or Mann: A Silver 5 Pounds Coin brought out by the Isle of Man in collaboration with Coin Invest Trust (CIT) and minted by B.H. Mayer's Kunstprageanstalt, Munich
31) 200th Anniversary of John Keats' "Odes to a ....", Alderney Island: A set of six Postage stamps issued by Guernsey Post which brings out stamps on behalf of Alderney Island - 1) Ode on a Grecian Urn,(48p) 2) Ode on Indolence (65p), 3) Ode on Melancholy (66p), 4) Ode to a Nightingale (80p), 5) Ode to Psyche (90p), 6) Ode to Autumn (98 p) : Stamp Set issue date: 24.07.201932) Isle of Mann: Celebrating the 200th Birth Anniversary of the Birth of Herman Melville, the author of the classic Moby Dick: A six Stamp Set issued on 22.07.2019
The Queen's Beasts Coin Series, UK issues:
Hello! Thank you so much for posting about the Witch Trials of Jersey stamps. Just wanted to correct it's Jersey Post who have issued the stamps, not Royal Mail UK. But thank you again for publishing such a detailed blog about the stamps :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for visiting this post and letting me know about the ommission. I have sice corrected it. Thanks again.
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