Excerpt from The History of Guernsey: With Occasional Notices of Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and Biographical Sketches The venerable and truly noble-minded bailiff, Mr. Daniel De Lisle Brock, has also laid me under heavy obligations: the experience of his long and useful life has often directed my erring judgment into the right channel, and he most liberally placed at my disposal a large collection of manuscripts and printed docu ments, replete with interest and instruction. 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.