The Mulot, or Guernsey Vole: ours are biggest
From The Zoologist, May 15th 1906, in the Library.
Two letters on the Commissariat, by Havilland Le Mesurier
A supportive review of an important work by Havilland Le Mesurier, the letters following on from his System for the Commissariat of 1798, from The Critical Review, Vol. 9, 1807.
Lord Byron's Newfoundland Dog, 1823
Edward Le Mesurier was the son of Havilland Le Mesurier and Elizabeth Dobrée. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy before settling in Genoa, where he married Amelia Augusta Wright.
Essay on the Institutions, Laws and Customs of the Island of Guernsey
The short preface to the 1889 first edition of Laurent Carey's work of reference, which was used on a day-to-day basis by the Royal Court in its proceedings.
Pouliche and paen-paen
A translation of the entry for 'pouliche' in George Metivier's Norman-French Dictionary, from the Guernsey Magazine, January 1884; and another little rhyme.
Census data, 1821
From the Gazette de Guernesey, 4th August 1821
The Anglo-Sarnian Alliance: a poem
A poem reproduced in J. Linwood Pitts' Guernsey and its Bailiwick, 1889.
Fairy wells, by Victor Coysh
From his Random Notes. La Fontaine des Faies and Le Gibet des Faies.
Parsnips
La ponais, Guernsey's favourite crop (you thought it was the tomato, didn't you!) From Bellamy's Guide to Guernsey, 1843, pp. 130 ff.; the woodcuts in this charming volume are by Thomas Bellamy himself; and Duncan's famous The history of Guernsey: with occasional notices of Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and biographical sketches, 1841. Frank Dally, in 1860, claimed that 'before the potato disease of 1845 the potato [as opposed to the parsnip] was the staple root of tillage, particularly in Guernsey, since which time it has very much declined.'
Explanation of the nature of Real Property in Guernsey: Rents, 1815
Bails and rents continued, from the Report of the Royal Commissioners Deputed to the Island of Guernsey in 1815. First is a succinct explanation of giving to rent, as selling a property in Guernsey was in effect known, by John Jacob from his Annals of 1830.
Emma Austen to Jane Lefroy
Jane Austen connections.
The Guernsey farmhouse and cottage, 1846
Continuing the extract from the Dublin University Magazine, 1846. The Guernsey diet and the lower classes' utter lack of musicality.