? No Petitioner named Transcript of a commission from Edward I to Gilbert de Knovill...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Transcript of a commission from Edward I to Gilbert de Knovill and Reginald de Carteret, appointing them justices in the Channel Islands, to hear and determine accusations, made in various petitions presented before the king and his council, of injuries and oppressions committed against the inhabitants of the islands by bailiffs appointed by Otto de Grandissono.

Nature of endorsement

The attorneys of Otto de Grandissono are to be ordered to have the prior of Wenlock and John de Newent appear before the justices, and the justices are to be ordered to proceed [Endorsement to SC 8/9/419, written on attached document].

Places mentioned

Channel Islands

Jersey, [Channel Islands]

Guernsey, [Channel Islands]

Alderney, [Channel Islands]

Sark, [Channel Islands].

People mentioned

Edward I, King of England

Gilbert de Knovill

Reginald de Carteret

Otto de Grandissono (Grandison), keeper of the Channel Islands

[Henry], prior of Wenlock

John de Newent

For a petition relating to this commission see SC 8/9/419

For a related petition see SC 8/60/2989

For transcript, see p.123 of PRO 31/7/93

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), pp.591-592 (mandates to Otto de Graunson, Henry, prior of Wenlock, Henry de Cobeham, William de Ousyngton and John de Newent to appear before the king and council in London to answer to complaints of men of the islands)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.97 (enrolment of this commission); p.215 (appointment of Henry de Gildeford, Reginald de Carteret and John de Ditton as justices in Eyre in the Channel Islands)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.464b, no.22 (full edition of original document)