By Glynis Cooper
In an exceptional spouse quantity to her best-selling e-book Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Guernsey, Glynis Cooper turns her realization to the darkish aspect of the earlier in Jersey. and there's no scarcity of surprising tales to inform - crimes of ardour and melancholy, situations of homicide, deceit and natural malice, opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of wickedness which are as demanding at the present time as they have been of their personal time. For this trip right into a ignored sector in Jersey's heritage she has chosen a revealing sequence of situations relationship from the medieval interval to the current day. She remembers the torture and execution of 4 girl witches, the murderous end result of a conflict with Norman sheep stealers, a lady who married her husband's assassin and wreckers who preyed on Spanish treasure ships. And one of the sensational episodes from newer instances are a schoolboy who raped a girl, the suicide of a jilted bride, the homicide of French political refugees, a French normal who was...
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Drogo and Jean de Barentyn had a number of friends, some of whom were employees, such as their warrener and their tailor. Guillaume de Tailleur, Guillaume le Warener, Geoffroi Langleis, Henri le Palefraiur, and Raoul Turgys joined the de Barentyn brothers in several escapades and also indulged in a few of their own. Guillaume le Warener attacked a couple ‘... ’ He forced Richard Dovenand and his wife to take him to a tavern ‘... ’ and pay for his night out. As in the story A Charge So Horrid (Chapter 1) Guillaume simply denied the offence, requested judgement and was acquitted.
Cabbages 3 m high, grown on the Island. 1910. Author’s collection Like Guernsey, the island is a ‘Crown Dependency’. Gibraltar shares the same status. Crown Dependencies owe allegiance to the Crown, not to Parliament. They are dependent upon the protection of the Crown against foreign aggressors and they may not declare war on another country without the consent of the Crown. However, internally, Crown Dependencies are autonomous; and Jersey citizens have their own government; their own laws and legal system; their own health, education and social services; their own post office; their own coinage; and their own flag.
All the wartime records for Jersey were released under the fifty year rule during the 1990s. Some of Guernsey’s war records and all of those for Alderney are, unusually, embargoed for 100 years by Her Majesty’s Government without explanation. Jersey has certainly begun to come to terms with the Occupation better than its fellow islands. The Liberation Sculpture on Liberation square commemorates the citizens of Jersey and their endurance of and liberation from the Occupation. There are also memorials to slave workers and other foreign nationals, notably the bunker memorial at La Hougue Bie, who suffered and died at the hands of the Germans on Jersey.