David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ The family of Le Quesne, in Jersey, is said to be of pre-reformation descent, the Channel Islands being ours as a remnant of the Norman dominions of William the Conqueror; and this family, like most of the neighbouring gentlemen, claims to be old Norman, and does not wish to be thought a refugee family. This I do not dispute; but I do dispute their claim to two persons whom I am about to name. John Le Quesne and David Le Quesne were naturalised in 1700 (see List xxiv.) ; if they had been Jersey-men, naturalisation would not have been requisite. ”
