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January 1816: Order-in-Council of February 1660

From the Gazette de Guernesey, January 6, 1816, respecting 'strangers' abusing their position by selling goods retail rather than wholesale and thus undermining the local economy. The 1660 letter from the Privy Council is in its original English: the Gazette provided a translation into French for the benefit of the malefactors, perhaps!

Not dead yet: the curious case of the Speedwell, on the hunt for Americans, March 1812

A report from New York, March 31, 1812, published in Niles' Weekly Register, March-September 1812, Vol. II.

Witchcraft: Les Sorcelleries, March 1787

From the Library's Gazette de L'Ile de Jersey, 10 March 1787. If you're a Jersey person and you think you're cursed, you can call on the local white witch to save you.

Captain Grinnell's testimony, October 1778

An extremely interesting account from the enemy—at this point the Americans—of their view of Guernsey and its defences in 1778.

British conscripts: where compulsory service flourishes under the Union Jack, 1900

From The Star, July 5th, 1900. Reprinted from the Daily Mail of June 29th, 1900. Training the militia and their expertise at rifle-shooting.

June letters from Havilland Le Mesurier

Two letters by merchant and functionary Havilland Le Mesurier, one to his wife Elizabeth Dobree and the other to daughter Harriet Le Mesurier, from nearly 200 written while he was away working for the Army's Commissariat, in the Library collection.

John Banister to Elisha Tupper, July 11, 1775

Elisha Tupper, son of Daniel, Priaulx Library collection

John Banister of Virginia describes the Boston Tea Party and the growing disaffection between Britain and New England, including the Battles of Lexington and Concord, to update his business associate, shipping magnate Elisha Tupper. The illustration, from the Priaulx Library collection, is of a miniature of Elisha (1720-1802), in the background of which a date, possibly 1785, is just discernible. The photograph was taken by or on behalf of Edith Carey, c. 1920.

Maybugs

A cruel pastime is banned.

United All England Eleven versus the Twenty-two of the Channel Islands: May 1866

Double your cricket numbers with England's finest (or second finest) at the Fort Ground. The newspaper notes: 'Although the Twenty-two are said to be of the Channel Islands, three only are natives, the remainder being officers of the garrison or other temporary English residents.' From the Star, March 31st, 1866.

Jordan de la Chapelle, 1235

A petition from the time of Henry III. Robert de la Rosière, Jordan and his wife are wrongly accused. The King gets angry with Dreux de Barentin, who had recently been appointed Warden of the Isles, and who became notorious through his subsequent oppressive behaviour.

The loss of the Hibernia, April 1833

From a letter in the Star, May 2, 1833. The Hibernia, Captain Brend, left Liverpool 6 December 1832, and sank on February 4, NW of Acension island, 1100 miles from Brazil. There were 79 males, 80 females, and 50 children as passengers; 4 of the crew were boy apprentices. 150 died. There were insufficient lifeboats, and they were very poorly maintained. The survivors were rescued by the Guernsey vessel, Isabella.

A Guernsey decision abrogated: April 29, 1783

The case of a Russian ship, the Graf Nikita, from The Political Magazine and Parliamentary, Naval, Military, and Literary Journal, Volume 6, 1783; in which an independent judgment of Guernsey's Royal Court was overturned for British political expediency.

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January 1816: Order-in-Council of February 1660

Not dead yet: the curious case of the Speedwell, on the hunt for Americans, March 1812

Witchcraft: Les Sorcelleries, March 1787

Captain Grinnell's testimony, October 1778

British conscripts: where compulsory service flourishes under the Union Jack, 1900

June letters from Havilland Le Mesurier

John Banister to Elisha Tupper, July 11, 1775

Maybugs

United All England Eleven versus the Twenty-two of the Channel Islands: May 1866

Jordan de la Chapelle, 1235

The loss of the Hibernia, April 1833

A Guernsey decision abrogated: April 29, 1783

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