History of Jersey Island, Pre-History, (Volume 1) by Eric Woehler

Author:Eric Woehler [Woehler, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jersey;Jersey Island;Jersey History;Jersey Pre-history;Jersey eBook;Jersey invasion;Jersey War
Publisher: Jean Marc Bertrand
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Extracts from Chevalier’s diary

1647

12 July Sir George de Carteret instructed workers to knock down the Royal Court building which one knows not when it was built; nobody remembers anything, nor is anything written which would be able to give any clue. One estimates that it was built at the same time as the temples, chapels and parishes of the island. This old courthouse here was a house which did not have a good appearance, resembling a barn from the outside, in asmuch as it did not have pointed cement and was always covered in straw.

25 July The Seigneur of St Ouen (referred to as Mr de St Ouen) and Clement Le Montais were elected [Jurats] in place of the late Jean Dumaresq and Thomas Saelle.

18 December The death has occurred of Benjamin Bisson, Jurat of the Royal Court and one of the Committee addressed by the commission sent by the Parliamentary Committee to seize Sir Philippe de Carteret and send him to Parliament.

1648

Two women burned for sorcery.

28 December This Thursday night the thunder knocked down the bell tower in the Parish of Trinity. On Wednesday and Thursday the thunderstorm did not cease and the two nights were punctuated by strong winds and rain and dragons which roamed through the countryside shattering trees and damaging buildings.

1649

Sir George Carteret summoned the States to show them two letters sent to them by the King for the building of a road and to levy a tax on a bottle of wine in the island. The imposition of the tax began on 18 March. Wine which was 8 sols a bottle became 9.

Sir George Carteret summoned the States to raise a silver tax to pay for a present for the King [This was Charles II, who had been proclaimed King in Jersey, but was still in exile while England was under parliamentary rule].

He presented 11 persons before King Charles II pour avoir garison sous Dieu du mal qu’on appelle les escruelles [unable to translate] on which he placed a cherub with a collar of white ribbon.

1650

Mons Brevin, Rector of St John, who died on Sunday 26 January, was 80 ytears old. He had been the most constant adherent to the reformed church, having embraced the Order of Service completely unwillingly.

On Sunday 16 February the Lady of St Ouen, mother of Sir Philippe de Carteret, died at the age of 87, having married at the age of 13 and been a widow for more than 50 years.

4 July This Thursday the fonts and basins (bénitiers) which have been used in the Priory church on l’Islet ever since mass was celebrated in Jersey were brought back to the Town Church.

1651

12 April This Saturday Edouard Hamptonne took the oath as Viscount, having succeeded his father by Royal Patent.

17 April Laurens Hamptonne, formerly Viscount, took the oath as Jurat in place of the late Jean Payn.

20 October This Monday the Parliamentary army came to Jersey, consisting of 84 vessels and 2,600 men, and seven or eight knights, who arrived in the bay of St Ouen at the Port de la Mare.

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