On Thursday 28 September 1769,  a Court called the Assize d’Héritage was hearing cases relating to property disputes. Meanwhile, a group of individuals from Trinity, St Martin, St John, St Lawrence and St Saviour stormed towards town where their numbers were swelled by residents of St Helier. The crowd found their way to the Royal Court and forced themselves in armed with clubs and sticks and ordered that their demands should be written down in the Court Book.

These demands included:

1.  That the price of wheat be lowered and set at 20 sols per cabot.
2. That there should be a limit on the sales tax.
3. hat foreigners be ejected from the Island.
4. That the value of the Liard coin be set to 4 per sol.
5. That branchage fines could no longer be imposed.
6. That the customs’ house officers be ejected.

In the Jersey Museum it showed a lot of what Jerseys history was like and how people were living in the earlier years. The museum had a big section about Power and Protest based on the Jersey corn riots explaining how the people of Jersey protested and demanded for many changes.

The museum was filled with many different displays that were really interesting and showed me how different life was back then.

Some images from the museum visit: