BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND Historical Notices OF THE ISLAND OF JERSEY, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF ITS MILITARY, CIVIL, AND ECCLESIASTICAL GOVERNMENT, OF ITS LAWS AND PRIVILEGES, AND A CONCISE ENUMERATION OF ITS NATURAL Curiosities and Antiquities, CONTAINED IN ASHORT TOUR THROUGH THE DIFFERENT PARISHES: PARTICULARLY INTENDED FOR THE USE OF OCCASIONAL VISITORS. A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED. JERSEY: PRINTED AND SOLD BY C. LE LIEVRE. PREFACE. THE want experienced by every stranger of a description of Jersey, containing within a short compass a summary of the most useful information respecting its present state and general peculiarities, induced the author of the following pages to present them to the public view. The only descriptive publications extending to the history, laws, and political constitution of the Island, now to be obtained, however great may be their intrinsic value, do not seem adapted, from various causes, to the purposes of an occasional visitor. Changes of the most extensive nature have taken place since the period when Falle's History was written, and the account by Plees is too diffuse for the generality of casual readers: from the former work, however, as the best authority on many subjects, much valuable information has been derived, and the latter has been occasionally consulted; at the same time much interesting matter has been obtained from peculiar sources of information to which the writer of this description had access. An opportunity having been afforded by a second edition to correct and improve the former work, it is hoped that this little volume will be found to furnish all the intelligence which a cursory account, having reference to so many subjects, can be expected to present. |