Editing History of Guernsey (section)

===The Reformation===
[[File:Martyrs of Guernsey (cropped).jpg|thumb|The burning of the [[Guernsey Martyrs]] 1556]]
In the mid-16th century, the island was influenced by [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] reformers from Normandy. During the [[Marian persecutions]], three local women, the [[Guernsey Martyrs]], were [[burned at the stake]] in 1556 for their [[Protestant]] beliefs.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kBDT2ZJPLOYC&dq=guernsey+martyrs+calvinism&pg=PA54 Darryl Mark Ogier, Reformation And Society In Guernsey, Boydell Press, 1997], p.62.</ref> Two years later [[Elizabeth I]] came to the throne and Catholicism faded in Guernsey.

The French and piracy were problems to trade with Guernsey in the 16th century, requiring English naval ships to keep them at bay. Guernsey and Jersey were given certain privileges as the English crown needed the Islands to be loyal, not least of which was the Islands neutrality, allowing trade to be pursued with France and England, even when these were at war.<ref name=PotS/>{{rp|69}} The trade creating revenue from taxes to pay for the Island garrisons.