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People of the Channel Islands. King and Council. The people of the Channel Islands...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/118/5893

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This record is about the People of the Channel Islands. King and Council. The people of the Channel Islands... dating from [? 1299] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/118/5893
Date
[? 1299]
Description
Petitioners
People of the Channel Islands.
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
The people of the Channel Islands make three separate complaints against the ministers of Otho de Grandison.1) They complain about exactions made by the ministers, who have taken fines contrary to judgements of the court, and ask that the ministers' actions be judged in the king's court, according to English law.2) They ask that fish landed in Guernsey be taken from port to certain places at least three times a week, so that the people might buy the fish for their own use and profit, to prevent them being sold on at high prices or bought by foreign merchants. The ministers have allowed this to happen.3) They ask that no man be allowed to be ousted from his free tenement without judgement or inquiry. The ministers have done this, not fearing punishment due to the remoteness and poverty of the islands, and they request that justices look into this complaint.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] Prior of Wenlock. John de Neuwent.Bill of Guernsey.
Places mentioned
Channel Islands
Guernsey
St Peter Port, [Guernsey]
Caubo
la Perrelle
People mentioned
Otho [de Grandison]
Prior of Wenlock
John de Neuwent (Newent).
Note
Dated on the guard to? 1299, with reference to CPR 1292-1301, p.433.
Related material

For a later petition on this matter see SC 8/9/419

For a related petition see SC 8/118/5894

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4523
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.433 (commission of oyer et terminer to the Prior of Wenlock, John de Newent and others, regarding lands in the Channel Islands and their homages, services, estreats and liberties removed since the time of Henry III)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150574/

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