CHEVALIER, JOHN (fl. 1661), chronicler of Jersey about the period of the civil war, was a vingtenier, or tything man, of the town of St. Heliers. He was somewhat superstitious, and a moderate royalist. The events which he relates happened during his lifetime. His narrative is divided into three parts: the first opens with the dissensions of Dean Bandinel [q. v.] with the lieutenant-governor about a royal grant of the great tithes of St. Saviour's parish, and ends with the death of Sir Philip de Carteret [q. v.] in 1643; the second contains the journal of Major Lydcott's government, and of the sieges of the castles, and includes a space of scarcely three months; the last is the most voluminous, and contains a minute account of the administration of Sir George de Carteret [q. v.], which lasted eight years, during which he governed the island with unlimited power and almost independent of his sovereign.
[Falle's Account of Jersey (Durell), p. 299.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.63
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| 214 | i | 28 | Chevalier, John: for (fl. 1651) read (1589-1675) |
| 30 | after war insert son of Clement Chevalier of St. Heliers by his second wife Jane, daughter of John Malzard. He | ||
| 13 f.e. | after sovereign insert Chevalier died 80 Nov. 1675, aged 86. He married Marie, daughter of Edward La Cloche |