ANNALS

OF SOME OF THE

BRITISH NORMAN ISLES

CONSTITUTING THE

BAILIWICK OF GUERNSEY.

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Veaw of S. Pater Pat prom Sa Sampson's read.

FROM PRIVATE MANUSCRIPTS, PUBLIC DOCUMENTS AND FORMER HISTORIANS;

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO

ADMIRAL SIR JAMES SAUMAREZ, BART., etc., etc.,

BY JOHN JACOB, Esq.

A NATIVE OF THE COUNTY OF KENT, AND A RESIDENT, FOR MORE THAN THIRTEEN YEARS,
IN THE ISLAND OF GUERNSEY.

PART I.

COMPRISING THE CASKET LIGHTHOUSES, ALDERNEY, SARK, HERM AND JETHOU,
WITH PART OF GUERNSEY,

"Annals are commonly understood to signify a collection of facts digested according
to chronological order, rather serving for the materials of History than aspiring to the
name of History themselves. All that is required in a writer of such Annals is to be
faithful, distinct, and complete.
Blair's Lecture on Historical Writing.

PARIS,

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY J. SMITH.

TO BE HAD OF T. GREENSLADE, CARREFOUR, GUERNSEY;

SIMKINS AND MARSHALL, LONDON;

A. AND W. GALIGNANI, PARIS.