Grow up
23rd March 2015
From Chefs Plaids, Jugements, Ordonnances &c, Staff, in the Library. 'People who can't control themselves may find they are forced to behave.'
18th century
The Mystery of the Ostrich-feather Hat
9th March 2015
Judy and Brian Harden of Gloucestershire, specialists in portrait miniatures, approached the Library for advice as to the identity of the sitters for a pair of miniatures by the Jersey artist Philip Jean, bearing the date of 1785. While researching these we noticed some striking similarities between them and other local miniatures we were familiar with.
The Good Intent, June 1777
A letter from Governor Le Mesurier to Mr Stephens, dated Alderney June 7 1777. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams considered Guernsey men as 'artful enemies.' The French, however, called the Channel Islands 'nids de guêpes'—'wasps' nests,' used in the sense they were a trap, a hornet's nest that one should not kick ...
Mutiny in St Peter's, 1704
From the Library's militia collection. A transcript by Edith Carey of a letter in French from a worried Lieutenant-Bailiff, Eléazar Le Marchant, to the absent Lieut.-Governor, Sir Edmund Andros, (here translated), and a contemporary copy of a petition concerning the same mutiny from William De Lisle in the St Peter's militia, to the Privy Council. Complicated family ties and nepotism, and a reflection of the bitter factional resentment felt towards Edmund Andros.
Smuggling , April 1759
Plymouth, April 18th 1759, from Owen's Weekly Chronicle; and 1763, from the London Chronicle.
Strangers, vagabonds, and other disreputable characters
From an Order of the Royal Court of Easter 1726.
The plan for recruiting the forces for the East Indies, March 1771
From The Scots Magazine, ed. James Boswell, Vol. 33.
Extra-parishioners, 1770
Locals who live outside their native parish.
Strangers, 1772
Order of the Royal Court, 27th April 1772.
News of Isaac Brock's death reaches Guernsey: November 24, 1812
From Le Publiciste, November 28 1812. The news was brought by Captain McCrindle of the ship Fame, out of Quebec with a cargo of timber. The newspaper also pubishes the reports from the Quebec newspapers McCrindle brought with him.