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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    the change—at any rate, for a considerable period—that was experienced, was that, instead of having a duke, the inhabitants had now a great and powerful king for their sovereign, or, rather, had both in the same person. On the death of William the Conqueror, Normandy and England were again disunited, and the Channel Islands formed naturally a paii; of the latter kingdom, and so for a time lost their connexion with the realm of England. In the reign, however, of Henry I. they were again united to England, together with the Norman crown. This union appears to have been disturbed during the struggle which ensued between Stephen, who had usurped the crown of England, and Henry II. Prior to his succeeding Stephen, Henry was Duke of Normandy and also of the Channel Islands; and at this period Stephen, as King of England, had no royal jurisdiction in the Channel Islands; and their inhabitants held unshaken fidelity to their duke, though then at war with the king of England. During this contest, the island of Guernsey was additionally fortified by the erection of a castle on a little islet close to the harbour of St. Peter Port. This islet was called Cornet, and the castle was subsequently known, as it is now designated, by the title of Castle Cornet. This fortification exists on the c