[1] The revolt is a significant point in Jersey political history, as the powers of legislation were removed from the Royal Court and placed in the States Assembly.

The spark for the riots was a corn shortage, in part caused by decisions of the ruling classes, which turned the urban population against the States.

His family held a number of high-ranking positions on the island and he had the power to issue ordinances and suppress protests through the Royal Court.

[4] Nicholas Fiott, a merchant settled in Jersey, had a number of personal squabbles with Lemprière which soon morphed into public disunity.

[5]:195-7 In the period between 1767 and 1771, there were food shortages on the island due to corruption among the ruling classes, which ultimately led to the Jersey Revolution.

In June 1769, hundreds of women descended on St Helier's harbour to directly prevent ships carrying wheat from sailing.

[1] On 28 September 1771, between four and five hundred people from the northern parishes marched from Trinity into town, led by Thomas Gruchy.

[1] Historian Michael Dun recounts that the revolution was a "remarkably passive affair" and "curiously civilised", as no one was molested or executed by the revolutionaries.

[1] The protestors' demands included reductions in the price of wheat and tithes, as well as the abolition of the champart (the feudal right of the Seigneur to every twelfth sheaf of corn), the banishment of all aliens and the complete withdrawal of charges against Fiott.

[1] On 6 October, the States met at Elizabeth Castle, a meeting place of better safety, and decided to send a party to report to the Privy Council.

Gruchy had read out a proposition at an address in Trinity, proposing the annual election of Jurats, Connétables and Centeniers and the codification of laws, arguing that Jersey was "under a government more arbitrary than the French".

Moses Corbet, a former army officer, read a petition at the Town Hall demanding reforms, which he took to England to present to the Bailiff, the Government, Parliament, and the King.