Excerpt from An Account of the Island of Jersey: With an Appendix of Records, &C The second Edition' had become very scarce, and bore a high price: A new Edition was therefore absolutely noces sary, and the publisher was induced to undertake it in con sequence of the numerous solicitations of his friends, whose patronage he now gratefully acknowledges. Many Accounts of Jersey have been published since Mr. F alle, but have added little or nothing to our stock of histo rical knowledge, while they merely and servilely copied from' him in most particulars. It is however candid to own, that that sort of information was of difficult access, or rather that it was out of the reach of those writers, who in addi tion to their other difficulties, were strangers, and unable to form a proper estimate of our usages and institutions. Per haps we might make an exception in favour of Dr. Sheb beare's History, whose first Volume contains the best account extant of the Constitution of Jersey, as he had derived it from the Le Geyt Manuscripts. The second Volume con tains the Narrative of aperiod of audacious and unredressed oppression, the authors of which have long been gone to answer for their misdeeds, where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary have rest. But his viru lence is such, that truth itself loses its original character, and ceases to produce any effect by assuming the appearance of exaggeration and calumny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.