Edited sentence: Changes have occured since, with the islanders now choosing to do away with their fedual system.It has been alleged that they generated negative press coverage of Sark herafter, when they realized its ancient laws forced them to pay a treizeme (one-thirteenth of every land transaction, in this case, £179,230) to Sark's Seigneur.The Barclay brothers, owners of the Telegraph Group, purchased the nearby island of Brecqhou in 1993