AN ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND OF JERSEY, WITH AN APPENDIX OF RECORDS, &c. BY THE REV. PHILIP FALLE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,? 0000 BY THE REV. EDWARD DURELL, M. A. RECTOR OF ST. SAVIOUR, JERSEY, 0000 JERSEY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY RICHARD Giffard, St. Saviour's Road. - 1837. TO THE KING. SIR, Philip Falle, the Historian of Your Majesty's Island of Jersey, was graciously permitted to lay his work at the feet of Your Majesty's Royal Predecessor, William III, and the high estimation in which his memory has ever been held by his countrymen for his loyalty and veracity, proves that he had not been unworthy of the distinguished favours, which he received from that Illustrious Sovereign. Placed in the same situation as Philip Falle, and glowing like him with attachment to the Government and the Sacred Person of my Sovereign, and with love to my native country, allow me, Sir, to offer this new Edition of his History of Jersey, enlarged with a copious Commentary,to illustrate the antiquities and institutions of that Island, and humbly to solicit for it Your Majesty's Royal favour and protection. More than a Century has now elapsed since that History was published, during which the inhabitants of Jersey have persevered in the hereditary loyalty of their ancestors, and have exerted themselves to the utmost of their power in the Service of their Sovereigns, whose wisdom and magnanimity have secured the general welfare of the Empire, in the |