The Eidouranion
William Berry's theatrical lectures on popular astronomy, 1811, advertised in the Mercure.
March 1811: from the newspapers
News from March 1811, 200 years ago in Guernsey. Action needs to be taken: flour, and therefore rents, are becoming too expensive and the poor are suffering; ships are being captured by the enemy in local waters and no defence is being offered. If this made you depressed, you could always go to the theatre—if you could afford it.
Old names of places in the Town: Part V
Extracts from the Livre de Perchage of the Fief le Roi St Peter Port, 1573.
Old names of places in the Town: Part IV
Extracts from the Livre de Perchage of the Fief le Roi St Peter Port, 1573.
Old names of places in Town: Part III
From the Livre de perchage of the Fief le Roi of St Peter Port, 1573. Extracted by the Reverend George Lee and published in the Star in July 1891.
Old names of places in the Town : Part II
From the Livre de Perchage of the Fief le Roi, 1573.
Old names of places in the Town
The Star, 11 July 1891. Extracts from an early St Peter Port Livre de Perchage by the Rev. George Lee. A digital copy of this document, dated 1573, can be consulted in the Library.
Lines written on quitting the Vauquiedor, October 1813
From Le Miroir Politique, Saturday 23 October 1813. 'Original Poetry: the following Lines are the production of a Lady, whose poetical talents are not wholly unknown to this Island. A copy of them having fallen into our hands, we have not hesitated to insert it, from a persuasion that it will be acceptable to our numerous readers.' The Vauqiédor estate was acquired by Thomas Fiott de Havilland who transformed it into Havilland Hall.
Owners of Houses in the Clos du Valle, 1624
From The Star[?], Saturday 6th February 1897.
The Clos du Valle from the Livres de Perchage
The Star(?) c. January 1897.
Lost things: St Magloire
From The Star, March 27th, 1915.
Lords of Manors
Fiefs and their Seigneurs. From Guerin's Almanack, 1890, in the Library's News Cuttings on Guernsey IV, p. 79, Staff.