Catalogue description Petitioners: William Germain of Guernsey. Name(s): Germain, William ...

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Details of SC 8/238/11860
Reference: SC 8/238/11860
Description:
Petitioners: William Germain of Guernsey.
Name(s): Germain, William
Addressees: Council.
Nature of request: William Germain of Guernsey states that the ancient customs of Guernsey are such that if a man abjures the island for any reason and the King gives him his peace within a year and a day, then his lands and tenements are to be returned to him. Therefore, as the King has given him his grace and peace within a year and a day of his having abjured the island, he asks for a writ to the Bailiff or to the Lieutenant, Otto de Gransoun, that, if the custom is so, his lands and tenements are to be returned to him.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Guernsey, [Channel Islands].
People mentioned: Otto de Gransoun (Grandison), Lieutenant [of the Channel Islands].
Note: CPR 1307-13 p.386 is dated 26 August 1311, and p.401 is dated 22 November 1311. The petition must date from between these two dates.
Date: [1311]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), p.11 (calendar of petition)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.386 (pardon to the petitioner for having abjured the island) & p.401 (grant to the petitioner of his lands, in enlargement of the pardon granted to him)

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