Articles

The Library's unique collections are a treasure chest of unusual, interesting and sometimes surprising material just waiting to be found. This anthology, written by the Editor, is based on an eclectic selection of our archive. The author asserts her copyright on all material on the Priaulx Library website except where copyright of other authors is expressly notified. Permission to reproduce material from this website and full attribution to the author is required in all cases.

Legal

Hirzel Frederick de Lisle and Mary Carey, Pre-nuptial agreement, 1832

Hirzelbourne from Bellamy's Guide of 1843 in the Priaulx LIbrary Collection

From the De Lisle family file in the Library (No. 9). 'Articles of agreement made in the Island of Guernsey, on the Sixth day of October, In the year of our Lord 1832, by and between Hirzel Frederick de Lisle Esquire, son of the late Hirzel De Lisle Esquire, of the said Island, of the one part, Mary Carey, Spinster, daughter of John Carey Esquire, son of John, of the said Island, of the second part, and the said John Carey Esquire, of the third part. Bear witness.' The illustration is of Hirzel de Lisle's house, Hirzelbourne, now Swissville. The woodcut is by Dr Thomas Bellamy and was published in 1843 in his Pictorial Directory and Stranger's Guide to Guernsey.

William Blondel, 4 August 1570

Blondel coat-of-arms from Priaulx Library Collection

From the Lee MSS, Greffe, transcribed in Inquisitions post mortem &c, II, pp. 70 ff.; Blondel, who is based in London, sells his wife's property in Jersey and Guernsey to Pierre Priaulx and assigns power of attorney in Guernsey to Noel Lihou. The Blondel coat-of-arms is from a collection of watercolours at the Library.

Bonamy rentes

MS source material from the family files in the Library, Bonamy no. 40. MS English version of original.

Documents, Le Hurel

From a wonderful cache of documents from Le Hurel in St Saviour's, donated by Esther Hatton in 2014.

Lords of Manors

Fiefs and their Seigneurs. From Guerin's Almanack, 1890, in the Library's News Cuttings on Guernsey IV, p. 79, Staff.

Our old house in Berthelot Street

Notes from Dr Hoskin's MSS. The de Rozel, Lihou, and Knapp families.

Old house in Berthelot Street: legal documents

MSS of Dr Hoskins, notes on his old house in Berthelot Street, transcribed by Edith Carey.

Rental of Andre Monamy, Jurat, 25 January 1564

Notes taken by Edith Carey from the De Guérin MSS and the Lee MSS.

Mariage encombre

Darell Carey from Petitions and trials, Priaulx Library Collection

A wife had a year and a day after the death of her husband to claim the Writ de Mariage Encombré, which enabled her to allege that her husband had sold or alienated all or part of her personal property, without her consent.

William Dobree, bankrupt, 1754

November the 2nd 1754 ex parte John de Sausmarez, Henry Brock, Matthew de Sausmarez: In the matter of William Dobrée a bankrupt. From Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery: in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. [1736-1754], Volume 1. William's debts would today be in the region of, at the minimum, ten million pounds, but as he was in effect a banker, the amount could feasibly be multiplied by ten.

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