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? No Petitioner named Writ of Edward II to Grandison ordering him to prevent his...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/272/13572

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Reference
SC 8/272/13572
Date
1313
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of Edward II to Grandison ordering him to prevent his bailiffs and ministers from troubling the people of the islands, and to permit them to freely and quietly enjoy their rights and customs as they did in the time of the king's predecessors.
Nature of endorsement
None of the laws and customs have been changed by Grandison in Jersey, and the laws that relate to Guernsey are so confused and are not written down so that it is impossible to say whether changes have been made there on account of which the petition is sent to . . . And for the king Fressingfield and his associates, justices lately in eyre found that the islanders abused their laws and customs on account of which the justices adjourned the matter before the king where it still pends. It is certified that neither Grandison or his ministers intermeddled with the justices.
Places mentioned
Guernsey, [Channel Islands]
Jersey, [Channel Islands]
Dover, [Kent].
People mentioned
Edward II, King of England
Otto de Grandissono (Grandison), warden of Guernsey and Jersey
John de Frysingfeld (Fressingfield), justice in eyre.
Note
The writ is dated to 1313 as the writ is dated in its dating clause to 22 May 1313 [6 Edw. II].
Related material

For the petition in which this writ was enclosed, see SC 8/272/13573

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
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.21-22 (calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517519/

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