1831, a dreadful summer for accidents
From Henry Tourtel of St Martin's Commonplace Book, 1817-1831, in the Library.
Library Document Collection
Lost things: Les Maisons aux Comtes, 1915
'One of the quaintest possible specimens of an old Guernsey dwelling'; so says the author of a report in The Star, October 20, 1915, under the byline: 'Another ancient landmark disappearing.' The photograph is by Edith Carey. She says tradition had it that the house was built in the 12th century and was connected with the Fief au Comte; the house on the left was demolished in 1921.
Lost things: Les Maindonnaux, 1901
View from the North-east.
Proper names from Livre des Jugements
Modernized list of people mentioned in legal cases, from a transcription of p. 223 of Livre des Jugements, Vol. I, in History of the Guernsey Churches scrapbook.
Muskets, 1744
Distribution of muskets by the British Government to the inhabitants of Guernsey, October 1744. Said to come from a manuscript in the hand of George Syvret, dated 1817.
Dobree, Le Mesurier, Perchard
From Edith Carey's Scrapbook, Lukis Memoirs (MSS).
Poor Johnny Hotton
From a note in the Notebook of Elie Brevint, minister of Sark from 1612 until his death at the age of 87 in 1674. Written around 1610, this extract refers to events in his father Cosme's time as minister at the end of the 16th century. This is quoted in the Guernsey Magazine, or Monthly Illustrated Journal, for March 1875, p. 271; there is a copy in the Library.
Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court: II
List of names taken from Edith Carey's full-text extracts of the Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court, Library 41B. 17/18th century. II: Marriages annulled; Disputed Ownership of Pews; Abjurations of Rome; and Forbidding the Banns.
Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court: I
List of names taken from Edith Carey's full-text extracts of the Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court, Library 41B. 17/18th centuries. I: Those charged with Breaking engagements; Paillardize; Incontinence: Seduction under promise of marriage; and Cohabitation.
Scandal! Le Hardy vs Bonamy, 1697
From Edith Carey's extracts from the Acts of the Ecclesiastical Court, Library 41B, pp. 29-30. John Bonamy was made Vice-Dean on the 14th February 1700, and Dean in 1717.