and religious affairs", noting that "in the year of the institution of the College, three persons were burned for witchcraft". In 1563, the Privy Council recommended that Guernsey's "spiritual and temporal jurisdictions [be examined] to reform errors and abuses" and recommended the establishment of a school by Royal Charter. They believed the island required secondary education so that students might go on to preach as clergymen in Guernsey in line with principles of the Protestant reformation. The Charter required the States of Guernsey to found a free grammar school with a schoolmaster appointed by the Governor of Guernsey. The school was founded on 25 May 1563, by a patent roll from Queen Elizabeth I which read: Also since there is no grammar school in the isle, to erect a free grammar school there called Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School under the seal of the isle; the schoolmaster thereof to be appointed and removable by the Captain (except the Queen shall otherwise order); the school to be endowed with wheat rentes of 80 quarters a year found to belong to the Queen by the late Commissioners. The school was instituted in September that year, and was the fourth school established on the island. To create a site for the school, Franciscan friars were moved from land at La Rue Des Frères, a site which the school still occupies. The first schoolmaster was Belgian scholar, Adrian Saravia, who went on to be a translator of the King James Bible. Saravia left the island by 1571, describing the local population as an "uncivilised race" which "hates all learning". Reform and reconstruction Over the next two and a half centuries, the school suffered from insufficient buildings and staff and the pupil roll never exceeded 29. Many principals were appointed, but resigned or were dismissed by the States of Guernsey. In 1824, due to increased demand for a higher standard of local education and a properly-run College, the island's Lieutenant Governor, John Colborne, established a committee to review the school. It was re-chartered that year, and by 1826, with new staff and an improved curriculum, the school was ready to attract pupils from England. On 19 October 1826, the foundation stone of a new building was laid by Colborne, and the school was renamed the Royal College of Elizabeth. The reform introduced a register of pupils, whereby each pupil since is allocated a unique, sequential school