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Discover the Historic Island discover the historic island Military History A very brief history of Alderney by Brian Bonnard Prehistoric Times features) resulted in the French King, Charles the Simple, ceding the province of Rouen to Rolfe the Ganger The island was cut off from the land mass of Europe on (Rollo) as ‘Patrician’ or ‘Count’ in 911, to gain protection several occasions over the previous million years, as the against further raids, provided he became a Christian sea levels rose when the ice caps of the various ice ages and married his daughter. Many years later this resulted melted and was finally permanently separated about in the creation of the Duchy of Normandy, after the 6 - 7,000 BC, some 3,000 years before the gradually Cotentin peninsula and the Channel Islands had been forming English Channel cut off the British Isles from added to the province by his son William Longsword in Europe. Prior to this, the only inhabitants of the mainly 933. His descendant, William the Bastard, became 7th deciduous forests covering the area, were wandering Duke of Normandy in 1035 and subsequently, in 1066, hunter-gatherers and stone and flint tools and weapons, William I of England. William did not then incorporate going back about 150,000 years, have been found here. the Duchy into the realm of England but retained it as There is considerable evidence of continuous occupation a personal possession, a situation which has resulted for at least the last 5 - 6,000 years, from the late Stone in today’s independence of the islands from the British Age, through the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, in the Parliament, whilst retaining allegiance to the Crown. form of Neolithic Dolmens (burial chambers) and an Iron The earliest known charter referring to Alderney, dated Age pottery, dated around 490BC, excavated on Longis between 1028 and 1042, is the gift by William’s father, Common in the 1960s. It is assumed that the earliest Robert, 6th Duke, of land in Guernsey to the Abbey of settlements were all in this area. Weapons, tools, pottery St. Michel. This was modified on the original charter, and other artefacts from many excavations here, over by William, in 1042, by exchanging this land, for land the past 170 years, can be seen in the Alderney and in Alderney and Sark. One of the witnesses to this Guernsey museums. document, was Edward I of England. In another charter dated 1057 William transferred this grant of about half of Alderney to the Bishop of Coutances, where it mostly Early History remained until 1568 when the Channel Islands were finally incorporated in the diocese of Winchester on the The Romans used Alderney as a staging post en route direct orders of Elizabeth I. from Brittany to Britain using Longis Bay as their harbour. The old fort, now known as The Nunnery, contains King John, 13th and last Duke of Normandy proper, substantial elements of the fort built about 320 AD to lost the mainland part of his Duchy to the French in protect it. Many Roman burials have been excavated in 1204, but retained the Channel Islands and kept the the area, with pottery of Italian origin dating from 130 title. Our present Queen is still the Duke (not Duchess) - 20 BC and coins from as early as 78/79 and 190 AD of Normandy. All Channel Island men between 16 and have been found. 60 were formed into Militias to defend their islands, but were not required to serve the Crown outside their own As Christianity spread across Europe in late Roman times, island, unless the sovereign was captured by an enemy. the islands were attached to “Constantia” (the modern Small garrisons of English troops were maintained in the Diocese of Coutances) and legend has it that Christianity islands from then until 1930, with reinforcements sent to was first brought to Alderney by St. Vignalis, about help at various times of danger. 575AD from the monastery already established on Sark. Three centuries later Viking raids along the Channel coasts (a legacy of which is the Norse origin of the names of many of our coastal and offshore rock PAGE 1 discover the historic island Military History A very brief history of Alderney by Brian Bonnard The Crown usually appointed someone as Governor or During the “Hundred Year’s War” Alderney was Commander of the islands to represent them. Assizes at captured and looted by the French for a short time in which justice was dispensed, complaints heard and tithes 1338 and the island seal lost. After 1471 Edward IV and taxes collected, were held in each island every few appointed separate Governors for the “Bailiwicks” of years by travelling Justices, sometimes accompanied by Jersey and Guernsey, (the latter including Alderney, Sark the sovereign. and Herm), which have remained separate jurisdictions ever since. From earliest times the agricultural land in Alderney was cultivated communally on an open strip system, which survived the English and other island land enclosures of the 16th and 18th centuries. The individually owned plots 16th to 19th Century were marked by boundary stones and any disputes referred Another French raid, by Captain Malesarde of Cherbourg to the Douzaine, the 12 parish officials. Strong measures in 1558, shortly after England finally lost Calais to the were taken to ensure that Crown (or Governor) and Church French, resulted in the island being occupied for a few received their proper dues in the form of tithes and customs weeks until he was captured and sent to the Tower of arose about planting, harvesting, collecting “vraic” or London by a force headed by George Chamberlain, a seaweed for manure and communal grazing of the stubble, son of the Governor of Guernsey, a Catholic family. As after harvest and through the winter, which were adhered a reward, Elizabeth I granted him a 1,000 year lease to, right into the 20th century. on the island in 1559. Later, in 1584, after George A surviving document signed by Henry III in 1238/9 sets got involved with the faction supporting Mary, Queen out the rights of Crown and Church in their respective of Scots and fled to Europe, this was passed to his halves of Alderney and notes, in 13 clauses, amongst brother John, in a new charter, for £20 down and an other things, that the King had a windmill and the annual fee of £13.6s.8d. and started the hereditary Bishop a watermill, each had a court consisting of a rule of the Chamberlain family which lasted until 1640, Provost and six jurats, to administer their rights. These through several vicissitudes, mainly caused by the were in fact the same people and were expected to family’s Catholic faith; disputes with the islanders; and a judge impartially for either King or Bishop at whichever temporary holding of the lease by Elizabeth’s favourite, court was sitting. The courts were held in the open air the Earl of Essex from 1591, (when he lent John in the churchyard and the priest was to be paid “with a Chamberlain £1,000, with the island as security), until pound of copper”. Essex was beheaded for treason in 1601. They left little permanent mark on the island and nothing still bears An “extente” dated 1274 in the second year of the their name as a reminder. reign of Edward I, sets out the various rents and tithes paid to the crown which were valued in total at 60 livres During the English Civil War the island was held by the tournois 9 sols 2 deniers. (£60.46). With few changes Parliamentarians. Captain Nicholas Ling was appointed these rents were still payable to the “Farmer” or crown Lt.-governor of Alderney in 1657 and continued to hold representative in the island in 1666, and many continued the post after the Restoration in 1660 under de Carteret, until the 19th century. (a Jerseyman, the “Fee-farmer” or Governor appointed by Charles II, before his restoration), until Ling died in The Assize held in Alderney in 1309 names the officials 1679 and was buried in the (old) churchyard, near the and court and five of their surnames could still be found vicarage wall. Ling built the jetty at Longis on the orders in the 1989 Alderney telephone book. of the King about 1666, the first residence on the site of the present Island Hall, as the official residence; and the Vicarage was rebuilt about this time. PAGE 2 discover the historic island Military History A very brief history of Alderney by Brian Bonnard His second wife was a member of the Andros family Rev. John le Mesurier, son of the last Governor, built from Guernsey. De Carteret died the same year and, in the present parish church in 1850, as a memorial to his 1680, his widow sold the patent to another Guernsey parents. Andros, Sir Edmund, whom Charles II later appointed Governor of New York. Sir Edmund delegated his After Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, smuggling and authority in Alderney to another Guernseyman, Thomas privateering officially ceased, the garrisons were Le Mesurier, also connected by marriage to the Andros withdrawn and the island fell on hard times. In 1830, to family and, after Andros died, through various changes, relieve the poverty a little, the Crown agreed to divide the Le Mesuriers continued as hereditary governors until most of the Crown lands amongst the inhabitants, only 1824, when John Le Mesurier sold the Patent back to retaining a strip around the island coast for military the Crown in return for a pension. purposes.
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