Esmon (Edmund) Rose (Roos). Rose (Roos) Esmon (Edmund) King and council in parliament....

Petitioners

Esmon (Edmund) Rose (Roos).

Name(s)

Rose (Roos), Esmon (Edmund)

Addressees

King and council in parliament.

Nature of request

Esmon Rose states that he was appointed by the king and council as keeper of the castle of Gorry in the island of Jersey for a year, on certain wages, which are insufficient both in time of truce and in time of war, as both in time of truce and in time of war he has to maintain an equal force of men in the castle against enemies. He also states that his period of office expired last Easter, and the bailiffs, jurats and receiver will not allow him to make any execution of the law or to arrest any man outside the gate of the castle but he does not dare to leave his castle or return to England without the king's express command, as there are ships of war waiting in La Rochelle to attack. He also states that the receiver there does not wish to pay him his wages, and that the castle is running out of provisions, as both the commons and the great men of the isle refuse to provide them as they used to. He asks that the receiver and controller might be summoned before parliament to account fully with him, and that he might then be granted the island again, receiving for his wages as much as the surplus of his account amounts to, or that his wages might be increased and his letters patent and indentures renewed, and that a remedy might be provided in the matter of the withdrawal of provisions by the commons and great men; or that he might be discharged of his office.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Gorry, Jersey, Channel Islands

La Rochelle, [France].

For another petition from the same petitioner see SC 8/206/10300