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reward for his distinguished services, the title and dignity 

 of Landgrave, with four Baronies containing forty-eight 

 thousand acres of land, at a quit rent of a penny an acre. (1) 

 Apparently neither he nor his heirs ever seem to have benefited 

 by this munificent gift, for among the Guille MSS. is a letter, 

 dated August 7th, 1749, written by John Guille of St. George, 

 the husband of Elizabeth Andros, daughter of Mr. John 

 Andros, nephew, executor and administrator of Edmund 

 Andros's property. In this letter Mr. Guille says : " I have 

 consulted persons who are of oppinion ye Patent is valid and 

 good, that wee may enjoie ye Lands, go by ye name and stile 

 of Barons Landgrave, and have ye Coat of Arms — A SUN 

 at Mid Daye with this motto Sol Clarior Astris (ye Sun is 

 brighter than ye Stars), but so much grandeur don't become 

 our purs, and ye Lands not having been improved are not 

 thought worthy our acceptance, so that we have laid aside all 

 further thought about it." 



The protection and hospitality Sir George Carteret had 

 shown Charles the Second when Prince of Wales, and his 

 brother James, Duke of York, while refugees in Jersey, 

 were rewarded by the latter on June 24th, 1664, oy a grant 

 of large tracts of land in North America to be henceforth 

 called New Cgesarea or New Jersey in his honour. We know 

 that one of our earliest Empire-builders, Sir Walter Raleigh, 

 was Governor of Jersey during the latter part of Queen Eli- 

 zabeth's reign, and possibly he may have interested some of the 

 leading people in the Island in his projects of conquest and 

 colonization in the unknown lands of America ; for, as early 

 as 1650, Sir George Carteret had fitted out a ship for Virginia 

 with the intention of planting and civilising some part of the 

 country, and the gift of these lands enabled him to put this 

 project into execution. Sir George, being then sixty-five j ears 

 of age, appointed his distant cousin Philip de Carteret, Seigneur 

 of La Hougue, to be Governor of his Province, and he arrived 

 there in the Philip, in July 1665. A letter from James de 

 Havilland to Lord Hatton, written from Guernsey in January 

 1671, mentions a ship having gone to Virginia " with severall 

 people of the island to inhabit there." (2 > Philip de Carteret 

 was subsequently involved in disputes about local rights with 

 the original proprietors, and returned to England in 1672. 

 During his absence the Dutch reduced the country, and it was 

 not until after the Peace of 1674, when it was restored to the 

 English, that he returned to govern his cousin's dominions. < 3) 



(1) New York Colonial MSS., Vol. II., p. 140. 



(2) British Museum, Add. MSS. 29553, f. 267. 



13) Armorial of Jersey by J. B. Payne, pp. 114-5 n. 



