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GUERNSEY HISTORY. 



at the Record Office and were hastily examined by Colonel 

 J. H. C. Carey a few years ago. Two items in his notes 

 point to an invasion of the Isles having recently taken place. 

 First the loss of a large portion of the royal revenue from 

 Alderney " on account of the destruction of the island." 

 Second, the very large repairs made to the Crown Mills in 

 Guernsey. These repairs have an important bearing on 

 another point which will now be touched on. 



GUERNSEY AND DU GUESELIN 



The history of du Gueselin's invasion of Jersey has been 

 exhaustively treated by M. Jean Lemoine, in La Revue 

 Historique, 1897. He has proved by extracts from English 

 State Rolls and the accounts of the Receivers and Lieutenants 

 of the Isles, now in the Record Office, London, the accuracy 

 of the main outline of the narrative given by Cabaret d'Orville 

 in his Chronique du ban due de Louis de Bourbon, but he deals 

 with Jersey only and consequently omits all reference to what 

 d'Orville says of du Gueselin and the Due de Bourbon's in- 

 vasion of Guernsey. D'Orville relates that " from J ersey they 

 passed over to Guernsey, where there was a castle which the 

 garrison did not dare to defend when they saw the other 

 castles taken, and it was the strongest of them all. The men 

 of the Isles promised to be true and faithful to the King of 

 France, and they remained so, so long as the good Admiral de 

 Vienne lived. Messire Jean Hedangest and Thibault his 

 brother were appointed to guard the Isles of Jersey and 

 Guernsey, and then the duke and his force returned to Quim- 

 per." This account was written about the year 1429, and no 

 doubt is greatly exaggerated, but the raiding of Guernsey by 

 a French force during the year 1373, and most probably by 

 that of du Gueselin, is clearly proved by a comparison of 

 Colonel Carey's extracts from the accounts of Nicholas de la 

 Salle, Receiver in Guernsey, from Michaelmas, 1372, to 

 Michaelmas, 1373, with those of William de Asthorp, Warden 

 of the Isles, from 21st December, 1373, to 1st February, 1374. 

 In Nicholas de la Salle's accounts we find a long list of the 

 Crown Mills repaired, probably those burnt at the time of 

 Yvain's invasion in the spring of 1372. Also he accounts for 

 the farm of the revenue of Sark for the year. In de Asthorp's 

 accounts we find a totally different state of affairs. All the 

 mills, except four, Maen, Petit Bo, Petit Moulin, and Les 

 Grands Moulins have been burnt by the king's enemies 

 and no revenue can be obtained from them. Also only a 



