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Community of Jersey and Guernsey King and council The community of Jersey and Guernsey...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/54/2672

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This record is about the Community of Jersey and Guernsey King and council The community of Jersey and Guernsey... dating from [1329] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/54/2672
Date
[1329]
Description
Petitioners
Community of Jersey and Guernsey
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The community of Jersey and Guernsey state that their Keeper, John de Roches, is trying to levy farms and rents in a manner contrary to their customs, and that they ought to be levied as is observed in the manner in which the Duchy of Normandy pays to the King of France. They request a writ to him that they might be quit of such payments, and that they might pay as the Duchy of Normandy does to the King of France.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Jersey, [Channel Islands]
Guernsey, [Channel Islands]
Roan (Rouen), [Normandy, France]
Normandy, [France]
France
People mentioned
John de Roches, Keeper of the Channel Islands
Note
CCR 1327-30 p.350-351 is dated at Gloucester, 19 December 1328, and seems to pre-date this petition. As the writ sent in response [SC 8/54/2670 or SC 8/54/2674] is sent out on 28 July 1329, this seems to fit well.
Related material

Another inquisition held in response to that writ is SC 8/54/2675

An inquisition held in response to that writ is SC 8/54/2671

A letter also sent in response to that writ is SC 8/54/2673

A duplicate of this petition is SC 8/54/2669

A writ sent as a result of this petition is SC 8/54/2670

A duplicate of that writ is SC 8/54/2674

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3680
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.55-57 (translation of duplicate petition and related documents)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.350-351 (order to John de Roche to levy the farms and rents according to the value of the money now current there, and to cease levying the remainder at the value of the old money until the next parliament, so that the king may ordain on this matter)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062888/

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