Taking care of the records 17th-century style: Chief Pleas April 1658
An Ordinance of 19 April, 1658.
Ancient petition, 14 December 1378
Laurence Poussin, troublesome priest. From History of the Guernsey Churches, Staff. 'Lord de Saumarez' MSS.'
Les Vill'ries, November 1947
Guernsey French section of the Guernsey Eisteddfod. From the Star.
Changing language of the Channel Isles, June 1907
Decline of French and patois in the islands. From the Star.
September 1806
Alderney Races, among other things, featuring Mackenzie's brown mare, called Snowball!
October 1836: Duncan Allez of the Anglo-Spanish Legion
A letter from the Star, October 31, 1836, describing a skirmish at Emetza. The Adjutant-General of this Legion at this time was Gaspard Le Marchant, son of Major General John Gaspard Le Marchant, and it is presumably he who had his horse killed under him, as the letter describes. The Priaulx Library recently acquired an Order Book of this regiment which covers the period during which the Legion was at San Sebastian, a town on the north coast of Spain; Le Marchant signs all the orders. The Anglo-Spanish Legion was a voluntary force put together by the British army at the request of the Spanish to help them in a civil war which arose because of a contested succession to the Spanish throne. The Orders in our book are dated 4 Jun 1836, until 30 March 1837 and are all issued from San Sebastian.
October 1822
Extracts from the French language local newspaper L'Indépendance, and the English-language Star.
The Elizabeth, 1745
From The Gentlemen's Magazine , XV, p. 694. The Elizabeth , MacKenzie, from Virginia, taken the 15th inst. off Falmouth, by the Lys privateer of St Maloes, and the same night lost on the rocks off Guernsey, but two English and eleven Frenchmen saved.
October 1892
From the local newspapers.
The Swift cutter, April 24 1800
From the London Chronicle, 1800. A Polperro smuggler nearly escapes at Guernsey.
Daniel De Lisle Brock praises Guernsey
A speech of thanks by the Bailiff upon receiving a gift from the Country Parishes, presented to him as a mark of their esteem for his help in mitigating the effects of an injurious Corn Bill, proposed by the British Government. May 22 1823.
Oliver Dobree and Catherine Stephens, 1693
Or was he a Dupré—and a Jerseyman?