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A40814	An account of the Isle of Jersey, the greatest of those islands that are now the only reminder of the English dominions in France with a new and accurate map of the island / by Philip Falle ...	Falle, Philip, 1656-1742.	1694 (1694)	Wing F338; ESTC R9271	104,885	297

AN ACCOUNT Of the Isle of JERSEY This may be Printed Novemb. 28. 1693. EDWARD COOKE AN ACCOUNT Of the Isle of JERSEY The Greatest of those Islands that are now the only Remainder of the ENGLISH DOMINIONS IN FRANCE WITH A New and Accurate MAP of the Island By PHILIP FALLE M. A. Rector of St. SAVIOUR in the said Island and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty At the Parliament holden at Westminster the Wednesday next after the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr An. 14. Edw. III. Remembrances for the King c. To keep the Sea and to purvey for the Navy and to defend the Isles of JERESEY and Guernezey Sir Robert Cotton's Abridgment of the Records in the Tower of London fol. 29. n. 28. LONDON Printed for John Newton at the Three Pigeons over-against the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street 1694. TO THE KING SIR THe Design of this Book humbly laid at YOUR MAJESTY's Feet is to give some Account of an Island which tho' subject to Your Royal Predecessors upwards of Six hundred years and seated in the Channel is less known than some other of YOUR MAJESTY's Dominions and Islands that are latter Acquisitions and remov'd to a greater Distance The Knowledge of Us may be of some Use to YOUR MAJESTY's Service and may minister to some of those Great Ends of Providence for which God has rais'd You up and which are one day to be wrought by Your Means Ever since our Ancient DUKES exchang'd their Coronet for that Imperial Crown which YOUR MAJESTY now wears we have been noted for Our Fidelity to Our KINGS We Glory not in the Extent or Riches of Our Country which cannot be brought into Parallel with the meanest of those Provinces that constitute Your Great Empire but we Glory in Our Loyalty which we have kept unblemish'd to this Day What profound Veneration then must we now have for a Matchless Pair of Incomparable Princes whom God has given to these Nations in his Love That Heaven would preserve YOUR MAJESTY from the many Dangers to which You daily expose Your Sacred Person and crown with Success the Justice of Your Arms is the hearty Prayer of May it please YOUR MAJESTY YOUR MAJESTY's Most humble and most faithful Subject and Servant Philip Falle THE PREFACE THE Island of JERSEY with the Others adjacent is of that Importance to England and the Loss of it would be attended with Consequences so prejudicial to this Crown that 't is fit the Nation should understand the Interest it has in the Preservation of that Place which of all other Their Majesties Territories is by its Vicinity to France the most exposed to an Invasion from thence Therefore I presume it will not be so much wondered at that an Account should be given of it now as that none should have been given heretofore The only thing that has appeared in Print concerning this Island besides what is found scattered in Cambden and others is Dr. Heylin's Survey containing the Relation of a Voyage which he made to JERSEY and Guernzey in the Year 1628. We must own the Doctor 's candid and ingenuous dealing in the Report he gives of Vs tho' being a Stranger and sojourning but Six days in JERSEY he could not so throughly acquaint himself with our Constitution The want of a due Knowledge whereof has led him into some Errors not to mention the greater Defects of that Work For having written that Book only for the Vse of Archbishop Laud then Bishop of London and without any design of making it Publick as appears in that it was not Printed till after the Archbishop's Death viz. Anno. 1656 almost Thirty years after it was written 't is evident he aimed not so much at an Account of Vs as we are a Frontiere and a Garrison under which Notion we ought chiefly to be considered now as to lay before that great Prelate the State of Religion in these Islands in Order to bring them to a full Conformity to the Church of England The Presbyterian Government being then established in Three of them Guernzey Alderney and Serck However in the main we have reason to be satisfied with his undertaking and to applaud our selves in the Character he gives of Vs in relation to these great Points viz. Our constant Affection to the English Nation our just aversion to the French our inviolable Fidelity to the Crown to which we are Vnited and the great advantage these Islands are of to England for the security of the Channel These Islands says he are the only remainder of our Rights in Normandy unto which Dukedom they did once belong Ever since they were annexed unto the English Crown they have with great Testimony of Faith and Loyalty continued in that Subjection The Sentence or Arrest of Confiscation given by the Parliament of France against King John nor the surprizal of Normandy by the French Forces could be no perswasion unto them to change their Masters Nay when the French had twice seized on them during the Reign of that unhappy Prince and the State of England was embroyled at home the People valiantly made good their own and faithfully returned unto their first obedience In after-times as any War grew hot betwixt the English and the French these Islands were principally aimed at by the Enemy and sometimes also were attempted by them but with ill Success And certainly it could not but be an Eye-sore to the French to have these Islands within their Sight and not within their Power to see them at the least in possession of their ancient Enemy the English a Nation strong in shipping and likely by the opportunity of these Places to annoy their Trade For if we look upon them in their Situation we shall find them seated purposely for the Command and Empire of the Ocean The Islands lying in the chief Trade of all Shipping from the Eastern Parts unto the West and in the middle way between St. Malo's and the River Seine the only Traffick of the Normans and Parisians At this St. Malo's as at a common Empory do the Merchants of Spain and Paris barter their Commodities the Parisians making both their passage and return by these Isles which if well aided by a small Power from the King's Navy would quickly bring that Inter-course to nothing An opportunity neglected by Our former Kings in their Attempts upon that Nation as not being then so powerfull on the Seas as now they are but likely for the future to be husbanded to the best advantage if the French hereafter stir against Us. Sure I am that my Lord Danby conceived this Course of all others to be the fittest for the impoverishing if not undoing of the French and accordingly made Proposition by his Letters to the Council that a Squadron of Eight ships might be employed about these Islands for that purpose an Advice which had this Summer took effect had not the Peace betwixt both Realms been so suddenly concluded And a

Daughter of the Queen of Castile who was Sister of Richard I. and K. John that to compound the matter he was forced to quit his Title to Normandy but never made any Cession of these Islands On the contrary he had so tender a regard to their Safety that he issued forth his Royal Mandate to the Barons of the Cinque Ports commanding them when-ever these Islands were attack'd and upon Notice thereof from the Warden or Governor to hasten to their Succour And the reason the King gives for this extraordinary Care of them is very remarkable ità quod Dominus Rex eos viz. Insulanos meritò debet commendare cum gratiarum Actione i. e. for that the King in Justice owes them Commendation and thanks for their Loyalty and good Service In the 2d Year of this King Philip de Aubigny Lord or Governour of these Islands obtained a great Naval Victory over the French who were going over into England with Supplies to Prince Lewis In the time of K. EDWARDI Son of Henry III the French enraged to see themselves Masters of the rest of Normandy and not of these Islands made a fresh Assault on them but with no better Success than before There is still to be seen in Ancient Records the Provision that was made by Order from the King for the Widows and Orphans of such of the Inhabitants as were slain in the Repulse they gave to the Enemy with Gratifications to others that had signalized themselves or sustained any considerable Loss on that Occasion Which Gratifications were among others extended to some of the Clergy who in these Islands have always been Examples to others of Zeal and Affection to the English Government I shall pass over the Reign of EDWARD II and come to that of EDWARD III wherein some things more memorable occurr concerning these Islands in relation to the French No sooner did K. Edward III proclaim his Title to France and thereupon a War ensued betwixt him and Philip de Valois but the French to make a Diversion invaded these Islands again Hugh Queriel Admiral of France made a Descent upon Guernezey An. 1339 laid siege to Castle Cornet took it and held it 3 Years The Loss of that Island did but minister an Occasion to the Inhabitants of JERSEY to shew their Fidelity to the Crown of England They raised a Contribution of 6400 Marks which was a great Summ in those Days for so small an Island for the Recovery of Guernezey and upon the Approach of the English Fleet under command of Reynold of Cobham and Geffrey de Harcourt who were sailing into Normandy with Recruits for the King and in their way were ordered to attempt the Reduction of Guernezey went out joyned the Fleet and assisted the English in retaking both the Island and Castle of Guernezey Many JERSEY-Men of Note losing honourably their Lives upon that Occasion as the Seigneurs de Vinchelez de Matravers des Augrez de Garris de La Hougue Lempriere and other Leaders named for their special Service besides private Adventurers Not long after Alain le Breton a famous Sea rover infested both Islands especially Guernezey though rather in the way of Piracy than of down-right Invasion Of him it is that Guillelmus Brito an Ancient Poet speaks in his Philippidos Et qui rostratis Navibus secat aequor Alanus Piratas secum assumat quibus utitur ipse Cum Grenesim rebus juvat expoliare So many repeated Hostilities of the French against these Islands had awakened the Parliament in England and had produced a Resolution still extant upon Record to move the King to set out his Fleet and provide for the Defence of the Isles of JERSEY and Guernezey Anno 1354 an Interview was agreed on betwixt K. Edward and the King of Navarre who was then fallen off from the French and the Place pitched upon by both Kings for that Interview was the Isle of JERSEY Accordingly K. Edward sets out from the Thames towards JERSEY with a Royal Navy but by contrary Winds was put back to Portsmouth where understanding that the King of Navarre had reconciled himself to the French and declined the Meeting he sailed to Calais and we lost the honour we should have received from the Presence of those two Great Kings and the Splendor of their Courts amongst Us. While the Victorious Edward pursued his Conquests and dyed the Fields of Cressy and Poitiers with the best Blood of France these Islands were safe under the Protection and Shade of his Lawrels But when in the declining time of that great King and after the Death of his Son the Noble Prince Edward commonly called the Black Prince the Fortune of the English in France began to forsake them these Islands were exposed to greater Danger than before In the Year 1372. Evans the pretended Prince of Wales sailing from Barfleur in Normandy with a Fleet of French Ships Landed in Guernezey but finding greater Resistance from the Castle than he expected gave over the Design and departed out of the Island Four Years after the two Admirals of France and Castile attacqued the same Island The French ransomed it for a Summ of Money but the Castillan returning carried away all he could The Strength and brave Defence of the Castle being still the Preservation of the Island and a means to keep it in the Possession of the English Nor was JERSEY less exposed to these Insults than Guernezey Anno 1374 three Years before K. Edward died Bertrand du Guesclin Constable of France famous for his many Victories over the English in that unlucky Turn of their Affairs in France at the Head of an Army of above 10000 Men wherein were the Duke of Bourbon and the Flower of the French Chivalry passed suddenly from Bretagne into JERSEY and encamped before Gouray Castle the same that is now called Mont-Orgueil into which the Principal Persons of the Island had retired upon landing of the French The Siege lasted some Months and was carried on with great Bravery on both Sides That Fortress being as valiantly defended by those within as it was vigorously assaulted by those without After many violent Attacks the Constable withdrew leaving many of his best Men slain under the Walls This was almost the only Place which in that general Defection from the English withstood the Arms of that fortunate and renowned Commander There had been before this a Treaty wherein the King had laid down his Claim to Normandy but being deeply sensible of the Importance of these Islands and much pleased with that constant Fidelity they had always expressed to him he caused an especial Clause to be inserted in the Treaty that those Islands which he possessed on the Coast of France should remain his as before I find little Action relating to these Islands in the time of RICHARD II Son of the Black Prince nor much in that of HENRY IV. This only