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To whatever motive Carteret may have yielded, he did not preside at the trial of Le Gallais, leaving the task as indeed he usually did to the Lieutenant-Bailiff. The record of the trial has perished, along with many public papers of those troublous times.
But thus much we know, that Alain Le Gallais was tried before the Lieutenant-Bailiff and six jurats, and, in spite of a strenuous defence by Advocate Falle, was found guilty and sentenced to death. It would be impossible to describe the anguish of the ladies of Maufant, who had remained in town during these proceedings.
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