THE CHANNEL ISLANDS 



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Up to the era of the English civil wars, 

 the political and social history of the 

 islands ran on practically parallel lines. 



Many insular families owned manors 

 and estates both in Jersey and Guernsey ; 

 and Guernsey de Beauvoirs, de Garis, de 

 la Courts, Le Feyvres, Le Marchants, 

 Perrins, de Vies, and Careys intermar- 

 ried with Lemprieres, de Carterets, de 

 St. Martins, de Soulemonts, Du Maresqs. 

 de la Mares, and Paynes; while in 1549 

 Hellier Gosselin, and in 1601 Amias de 

 Carteret, both Jerseymen, were respec- 

 tively appointed bailiffs of Guernsey. 



the great cleavage 



But in the seventeenth century the 

 great cleavage between Jersey and 

 Guernsey took place. 



Guernsey, impelled to the popular 

 cause by its more pronounced Presby- 

 terianism, by the feeling of betrayal 

 which the Stuart regime in that island 

 had produced, and strongly influenced by 

 three prominent islanders, Peter de 

 Beauvoir, James de Havilland, and Peter 

 Carey, declared for the Parliament. 



Jersey, as strongly influenced by its 

 great feudal family of de Carteret, " re- 

 mained loyal to the royal cause, and in 

 1645 the Jersey States proclaimed their 

 continued adherence to the king. 



In the following year the Prince of 

 Wales (afterwards Charles II) sought 

 refuge in Jersey, arriving from the Scilly 

 Islands ; and Jersey, after the execution 

 of Charles I, was the one place in the 

 United Kingdom to proclaim him King 

 of England. Shortly after his proclama- 

 tion he again visited the island, and was 

 supported both with men and money by 

 Sir George Carteret and the majority of 

 the islanders. 



Not only did the Jerseymen fit out 

 numerous privateers to cruise against the 

 commerce of England, but they surrep- 

 titiously provisioned and helped Castle 

 Cornet in Guernsey, which, under its 

 royalist governor, bombarded Saint Peter 

 Port and for nine long years stopped all 

 ships entering or departing from Guern- 

 sey harbor. 



Although it is nearly three hundred 

 years since Jersey and Guernsey were at 

 open war, yet the old rancor still lingered 

 until the World War swept away all 



Photograph by Alfred Dobree 



THIS MONOLITH WAS REVERENCED BY 

 THE NATIVES OE GUERNSEY AS RE- 

 CENTLY AS THE FIRST HALF OF THE 

 NINETEENTH CENTURY 



Note the diagonal crack across it, where it 

 was broken in half by order of the church 

 wardens in 1846, as it was thought that the 

 people paid too much "superstitious reverence" 

 to this block of granite carved into the rude 

 representation of the head and bust of a 

 woman. At one time a shallow stone trough, 

 said to have been worn down by the knees of 

 worshipers, stood in front of it. 



smaller misunderstandings, and all Chan- 

 nel Islanders, with the rest of Britain's 

 sons, became brothers-in-arms. 



CHARLES II GAVE THE CAROLINAS AND 

 NEW JERSEY TO CARTERET 



When, in 1660, Charles II was restored 

 to the English throne, he was not un- 

 grateful to the Island of Jersey and to 

 the family which had so befriended him 

 in his exile. Pie presented the Jersey 

 States with a beautiful silver gilt mace, 



