Excerpt from Annals of Some of the British Norman Isles, Constituting the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Vol. 1: As Collected From Private Manuscripts, Public Documents and Former Historians; Comprising the Casket Lighthouses, Alderney, Sark, Herm, and Jethou, With Part of Guernsey

Impressed with this idea, the compiler of the following pages feels little hesitation in offering to the Public, and to the Inhabitants of the Channel Islands in particular, the following data of facts which may serve to prove to the present and future ages, that Guernsey is not a place serving merely as a medium for illicit commerce, as some persons in England have ignorantly imagined, but that it is, at this epoch, a well organized and most civilized island, abounding in religion' and benevolence.

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