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The French Prayer Book

A letter to the Editor of the Star newspaper from the Guernsey historian Edith Carey, 14 December 1926, concerning the history of the French Prayer Book, published for the islands, the first (unpopular) edition of which exists in only one copy, in the Lambeth Palace Library.

Militia Drills, early 18th-century

Page from militia drill by Phillips Loggers, Priaulx Library collection

The Library has in its extensive local militia collection a photocopy of what was no doubt a most invaluable document in its time: a suggested drill, and loading instructions for the flintlock musket, written in the early 18th century for the officers of the Guernsey militia by Phillips Loggers.

Times Past, by Carel Toms

'In Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Herm.' A list of the chapters and personalities in this book, published in 1985; taken from his 'journalistic and photographic efforts of the last 30 years.' Many of these photographs are in the Library's Carel Toms Collection; please inquire for further information.

Eels

'Longevity of freshwater eels' from The Guernsey Press, 20 January 1912.

Early children's books

Pussy's road to ruin, from the Priaulx Library Collection

The Priaulx Library has amongst its collection of rare items several books intended for children.

Sword Exercise of the Cavalry

Guard from Sword Exercise by J G Le Marchant, 1796, Priaulx Library Collection

J. Gaspard Le Marchant, Rules and Regulations for the Sword Exercise of the Cavalry, LONDON, PRINTED for the WAR OFFICE, and sold by T. EGERTON, MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL, 1796.

Lilium Sarniense, or, a Description of the Guernsay-Lilly

Frontispiece of Douglas' Guernsay Lilly, 1725, in the Priaulx Library Collection

Lilium Sarniense, or, a Description of the Guernsay-Lilly. To which is added The Botanical Dissection of the Coffee Berry. With Figures. By Dr. James Douglas, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London; and Fellow of the Royal Society. London: Printed by G. STRAHAN, at the Golden Ball, over-against the Royal Exchange, Cornhill. 1725.

Thomas Andros' Commonplace Book

Thomas Andros' Commonplace Book, by the Seigneur of Saumarez Manor, from a family 'whose penmanship was far from good;' a handwritten pamphlet of herbal medicine and fruit-growing, dated 1589, Guernsey, and an exploration of other texts quoted in it.

Candie and L’Hyvreuse: Condatum et Eboracum or ebriaca herba

Suggestions for the origin of these interesting place names. Comments welcome! NOTE: if you make reference to this theory of the origin of the placenames Candie or L'Hyvreuse, please give the article title, refer to the Priaulx Library and attribute it to the author, Dinah Bott.

Guernsey people

By Frank Feather Dally. Guernsey folk love a good funeral.

Lost things: Guernsey granite fireplaces

La Maison Jean Sarre 1904, by Edith Carey, Priaulx Library Collection

General Oliver de Lancey William's only academic production, a notebook of a survey of old island houses he undertook in 1956, full of interesting observations, not just about fireplaces. It was presented to the Library in 1960. The photograph, taken by Edith Carey in 1904, is of La Maison Jean Sarre, 'an old house going to ruins near Bon Air, opposite L'Eree Schools, with a beautiful old carved granite chimney piece, with heads for corbels.'

Guernsey in 1775 and in 1837

By Ferdinand Brock Tupper, in Duncan's The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine III (1837), pp. 233 ff.

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The French Prayer Book

Militia Drills, early 18th-century

Times Past, by Carel Toms

Eels

Early children's books

Sword Exercise of the Cavalry

Lilium Sarniense, or, a Description of the Guernsay-Lilly

Thomas Andros' Commonplace Book

Candie and L’Hyvreuse: Condatum et Eboracum or ebriaca herba

Guernsey people

Lost things: Guernsey granite fireplaces

Guernsey in 1775 and in 1837

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