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.]