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Table des Monnaies, Poids et Mesures en usage a Guernesey, published by Frederick Clarke
In the mid-19th century Frederick Clarke produced in his establishment in the States Arcade this little booklet, attempting to distil in four pages the labyrinthine system of weights and measures at that time employed in the island. Its difficulty was compounded by the sheer number of currencies that island merchants and traders had to deal with. The information is taken literally from schoolmaster Thomas du Frocq's Nouvelle Precepteur of 1818, which is a (mainly) applied mathematics primer of tortuous complexity and much greater length.find out more
Selected House Pedigrees
The History Section of the Societe Guernesiaise has produced a set of pedigrees of houses taken from Guernsey's Livres de Perchage, which list the owners of a particular house from the earliest times at which it was rated, together with a glossary of French terms found in these documents. These will prove very useful for genealogists and can be consulted at the Library, as can our collection of original Livres de Perchage.find out more
Guernsey Weights and Measures, from Warburton's Treatise, 1682
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