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records covering the years 1796 to 1828.®^ The fact that 
Imlay is not a Jersey name would, however, give color to the 
theory that the Imlay of the inscription is also Imlay the 
soldier of fortune, who had, perhaps, sought here a mild cli- 
mate in which to spend his last days. 
Fo]' informati&n concerning- public records and family names in Jersey I am 
indebted to Mrs. A. Messervy, of St. Saviour’s. As Imlay’s name does not occur in the 
Reg'istre des Contrats, it is hardly possible that he owned any land in Jersey. The fact 
that there is no trace of him in the Rolls of the Royal Court would indicate that he 
was not engaged in any kind of litigation — and this consideration, one is tempted to con- 
clude, forms a very strong reason for believing that he could not have been long in the 
island. Nor is there any will recorded under his name in the Rolls of the Ecclesiastical 
Court. And finally, to make the difficulty baffling, there seems to be no newspaper 
notice concerning him for the end of 1828 . 
