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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    assailing tlie invaders with great courage, he defeated them with much slaughter, and burned their ships. The reign of William the Conqueror forms an important epoch in the history of these islands. By the success which attended this Norman duke’s invasion of England—a success known in English history as the Conquest, and the determination of which was accomplished at the battle of Hastings—the Channel Islands, together with Normandy, became united to the kingdom of England. This connexion dates so far back as the year 1067 ; and it is deserving of remark, that, with a brief exception, the union of these islands to our own has never been severed from that period to the present hour. “ This,” says the old and pious historian Falle — “this gives the inhabitants of these islands the precedence, as to priority of time, before all others their majesties’ subjects, saving- only the purely English; Ireland not being sub- dued till the reign of Henry II. nor Wales reduced till that of Edward I., and neither the one nor the other perfectly even then. Thus also the accession of Scotland happened not till the beginning of the last century, to say nothing of the plantations abroad, which in comparison are but of yesterday. I speak not this to derogate from the honour of kingdoms or principalities