Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist.

Date:
[1855?]
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Credit: Rambles among the Channel Islands / by a Naturalist. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    appear to have been ascertained whether these islands were included in John’s forfeiture of the Duchy of Normandy, but their connexion with England was not disturbed by the act of Philip. An attempt was indeed made to excite an insurrection in Guernsey, but the principal inhabitants were unaffected by the seditious efforts of the few priests and others who made this attempt. The island, with the adjoining isles, continued faithful to its sovereign, and former lord and governor, John; the lands of the seditious were seized, and disposed of in such a manner as to reward those who had evinced their attachment to their monarch and to England. Until this period Nor- mandy and these islands were connected by no ordinary links. Their interests, civil and re- ligious, were similar, and their union had been so intimate, that, in the words of an old writer, “ they made but one. Briefly, it may be said that in every thing we were as much Norman as the Normans themselves. But now the time was come when all these ties which united us to them, and them to us, must be dissolved, and these islands have nothing more to do with Normandy unless in the way of hostility and enmity.” This separation from Normandy unquestionably proved a blessing in after ages to these islands, and this is feelingly expressed