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People of Jersey and Guernsey and of other isles pertaining to them. King. The people...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/275/13731

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This record is about the People of Jersey and Guernsey and of other isles pertaining to them. King. The people... dating from [c. 1297] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/275/13731
Date
[c. 1297]
Description
Petitioners
People of Jersey and Guernsey and of other isles pertaining to them.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The people of the Isles request that compensation is ordered to be made from the goods of the Norman enemies for the damage that they suffered in the war. The previous warden was commanded to pay compensation from these goods but did not do so.Writ of Edward I to Cobham ordering him to make compensation to the people of the Isles from the goods of the Norman fugitives.
Nature of endorsement
Let Cobham be commanded by writ of Chancery that he certify the Chancery of the reason that he did not execute the writ directed to him, and when he has made the certification let remedy be made.
Places mentioned
Jersey
Guernsey
Flanders.
People mentioned
Henry de Cobham, late Warden of the [Channel Islands]
John de Bacwelle (Backwell)
Robert de Leycet (Leycett)
Thomas de Legorre
Otto de Granzoun (Grandisson), [Warden of the Channel Islands]
Edward I, King of England.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1297 as it seems likely that this petition was one of those referred to in a commission of oyer and terminer against the actions of the former warden Henry de Cobham (CPR 1292-1301, p.301).
Related material

For a petition with another copy of this writ, see SC 8/175/8717

For a related petition, see SC 8/175/8719

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
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.6-7 (calendar of petition)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.301 (commission of oyer and terminer into complaints by petitions against Cobham)
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