GUERNSEY. 
anciently confifted of a keep, now made into cafemates, an 
outer wall of great ENE flanked by feveral machico 
lated towers. In t aftle the lieutenant governors had 
“In i. are ve eral eae a _by gloom 
paflages ; aad it muft have been a place of great nis 
although it did not occupy the er defentible parts of. the 
rock. Inthe time of queen Elizabeth it was qnamnenied 
with a lower line of curtain and battions. Barra ac- 
commodatic ion have fince been formed fo ot deat 
ue sl is well peed by a 2 confiderable number. of. heav 
was the common prifon of the ifland both 
for Alar ey felons, a Foul hole, eracep! to huma- 
at caltle has loft much of its ancient el aap 
inner ditch, ae a keep in Be orman ee It is 3 oie 
a In d belongs by office tothe go- 
once reputed ftron farteale 
ks for the garrifon ; it has a pieces of 
cannon cet ets ced been its ramparts, commanding a, paflage 
ruffel, Near the afcent to this caftle is a burial 
get belonging to the Ruffians, who were in this ifland in 
which was eouark okie for the number and 
= hy are of the crofies they had left on the graves of 
ltl ed companions. There were, befides thefe, till 
¥> fome remains of a caftle at Rocquane, feated ona 
rocky eminence at the pee of a bay of the fame 
efter. as denominated a fort in the 
Rif ance 5 indicating, as it fhould feem, this gan Geoffroy 
very good neighbour, and with his caftle, happily got rid 
oh diftriet rict was alfo j ba apply g 
4 u 7 4 $ 
ae ‘Rot unlikely fo denominated after a town in Paleftine, 
ict a mentioned by Reland. 
aie iftian religion i is faid to have been planted in this 
the ey St. - Sampfon and St. Magloin, Britith hbithops, about 
E Year 566 ; be this diftri&.doe o have been fe- 
piel ee ots for ay ee after. The 
Cha < Peston OF ae religi sious fraternity is in 1111, when 
as applying for the! confecration of the churc 
bable ak abhey fst at this time, and before, a be PER 
wha 
bi Proce Ff its ar ait aon are vefre ieee gla 
Ne #3 (ote it was, like-the form and ene gtd 
of buildings, is pe ne ; nothing more remains Si a it than 
n co dite to a a cottage on the the atl of the 
1 F ind 
walk 
a4. chlo 
du Val, which Otel acrofs the “eed The Ss 
fea acrofs this flat feems to have taken place about the. 
1204, when at a court of chef plaids for the vale, held pa: the 
14th of O&tober th 
way named St. Sampfon’s bridge, as well as the time Pea 
the bray had been is dsp! sores by the encroachments of the 
fea, as to become a 
the Tey, 
of Guemiey by a channel paffable at low eee, one the 
property o i ’ 
warren for rabbits. 
the 15th of Auguft in the 
langere, bifhop A 
in, then prior. They confift ve the. ongitudinal half of of she 
fimple Cture,. with which th ig 
amounting to litt 
arches, and beari ng 
vault which ‘had covered this building. 
of the priory walls are found in the vicinity : it was feated 
near the fouthern fhore upon the fea. The «<4 fe 
now on this ifland i isa Sct at in. ruins, . 
ocean : a caufeway, the w 
€ poor panto pafles from Lihou to the opp 
nted out 
d Alderney, as well rsd Leith Se 3 
the latter feems thus w helly formed. "What fur deferves, 
remark is, that on the coaits from. this point to — fouth-, 
ward, tillthe afcent to Pleinmont, the fea makes vifible en- 
croachments pest. the land, where the fhore is not « 
" Moft of the ~ 
to have been eet religious houfess pa at shie:* 
change of religion, the poe tythes. falling into. the hands, 
thefe benefices were annexed ; 
vf remain, . » and. the dates of isheant dedications. n ‘may, be » Lape i 
nearly to he 
eer in Heya pe order... Sampfon 11113 the Vale - 
Bees rae 3. SRBETA 1130, ul by dey oh Carteret j in 
nfequen ce of a yow made in 3 St. 
of the. crown. t have, conitituted | apart of ay governor’s » 
falary.. The which 
“yeur’ 8, 11 54 5 ; ‘the Foreft Church, 11683 St. Peter au ion, 
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