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The Library's unique collections are a treasure chest of unusual, interesting and sometimes surprising material just waiting to be found. This anthology, written by the Editor, is based on an eclectic selection of our archive. The author asserts her copyright on all material on the Priaulx Library website except where copyright of other authors is expressly notified. Permission to reproduce material from this website and full attribution to the author is required in all cases.

Notes from reports of Historical MSS Commission: II. Notes from inquisitions post mortem

Section II from the Notebook (40) XI, Staff, in the Library. MSS transcriptions: inquisitions post mortem. These lists almost certainly predate the publication by the Societe Jersiaise of the islands' royal extentes and rolls etc. in 1902-3. Additions from Edith Carey's Family notes & pedigrees which begins with a transcription of Nicolle's volume.

Notes from reports of Historical MSS Commission: Notes from inquisitions post mortem

Staff XI. MSS transcriptions; some in full, others only references. Historical MSS Commission. The majority concern the Civil War period.

Indentures

Sample form for Louage d'un apprentif, from the Supplement to Thomas Le Frocq's Nouveau Precepteur, 1818, and actual indenture of 1711 from our collection.

Dame Drillot

Mary, shown in the illustration in front of the Drillot's farmhouse, meets her future grandmother-in-law, a Guernsey farmer's widow, Marion Drillot; Marion's costume is described in detail. By Frances Carey Brock, from her moralistic but entertaining novel, Clear shining after rain: a Guernsey story, in the Library collection, published in 1871.

Guernsey in America, 1924

From the Guernsey Free Churchman, December 1924 and January 1925.

Occupation ephemera: bureaucracy

A small selection of our collection of blank forms and regulations issued by the German military and Guernsey civil authorities. Some printed by Banks, Boosey & Co., Ltd., Guernsey. Click the links to see the items.

The lucky ones will be those who die quickly: Autumn 1944

A letter from A N Symons, Medical Services Officer, to the President of the Controlling Committee of the States of Guernsey, September 1944. From the Priaulx Library collection.

The Clameur de Haro, by Dagonet

From G R Sims' comic Dagonet's Visit to Sark.

Anecdotes (updated)

A few amusing extracts from the Library collections.

Fish: From the Sarnian Monthly Magazine, May 1815

A list of fish in Guernsey French and their relative presence in island waters, from 1815, p. 15. The Monthly Magazine folded before the list could be continued.

Guernsey French

Written by Louisa Lane Clarke for Redstone's Guide to Guernsey, first published in 1841. A copy of this Guide was given to Queen Victoria when she visited the island, and it was retitled Redstones' Royal Guide. This extract is from the fifth edition, published in 1856.

Civil records in Guernsey

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Notes from reports of Historical MSS Commission: II. Notes from inquisitions post mortem

Notes from reports of Historical MSS Commission: Notes from inquisitions post mortem

Indentures

Dame Drillot

Guernsey in America, 1924

Occupation ephemera: bureaucracy

The lucky ones will be those who die quickly: Autumn 1944

The Clameur de Haro, by Dagonet

Anecdotes (updated)

Fish: From the Sarnian Monthly Magazine, May 1815

Guernsey French

Civil records in Guernsey

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