He soon, however, repented of his decision and appointed a governor, Sir John Peyton, who was expressly charged with the duty of urging a return to unity with the English church.

By the twenty-first year of James's reign the inhabitants' opinions had changed, such that an address, drawn up by Bandinel in conjunction with others of the clergy, was presented to the king, begging him to restore the office of Dean and the use of the liturgy.

Bandinel was then appointed Dean, with instructions to draw up, for submission to the king, a body of canons agreeable to the discipline of the church of England, which were referred to a commission consisting of Archbishop Abbot, the lord keeper Williams, and Andrewes, bishop of Winchester.

The chief personal interest of Bandinel's life lies in the part he took in the dissensions that convulsed the island at the time of the troubles in England, his quarrel with the Carterets, and consequent tragic end.

He was charged with attempting to deprive the Dean of part of his tithes, an aggression that roused in Bandinel an animosity to the lieutenant-governor that was fostered by subsequent events, and which endured throughout his life.

At the time of the English civil war, Bandinel was considered the head of the parliamentary party in Jersey, whose cause he is said to have espoused chiefly out of opposition to the leading loyalist, Carteret.

The rigors and mortifications that he had to endure brought Carteret to his grave, and in his last illness Bandinel evinced the bitterness of his enmity by refusing all spiritual and material comforts to the dying man, keeping even his wife from him until the last moment.