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People of Guernsey. King and council. The people request the restoration of their...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/114/5685

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This record is about the People of Guernsey. King and council. The people request the restoration of their... dating from [c. 1314-c. 1315] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/114/5685
Date
[c. 1314-c. 1315]
Description
Petitioners
People of Guernsey.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people request the restoration of their ancient custom and that justices be sent to enquire of the matter of the wardens and their appointment of bailiffs to hold the court and pleas, as the wardens ought to come with warrants of the king, and the bailiffs that they appoint should swear an oath before the jurors to lawfully keep and maintain the rights, estate and crown of the king and the people in their customs and usage, but now as the wardens are within the islands without writ and de la Court will not make oath.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Guernsey, [Channel Islands].
People mentioned
John de Ditton, minister of Grandison and Petifes
Druy de Barantyn, minister of Grandison and Petifes
Otho de [Grandison]
Peter de Petifes
Massey de la Curt (Court), bailiff.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1314-c. 1315 as two entries in the patent and close rolls show that this dispute was active between March 1314 and March 1315 (CPR 1313-17, p.315; CCR 1313-18, p.91).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3838
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.26-7 (full calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.91 (order to the jurats of Guernsey to obey Grandison and his bailiffs unless they make the oath, though they will not explain their customs)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.315 (commission of oyer and terminer to examine the oppressions of Grandison and his bailiffs)
Record URL
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