Inventory of Dame Marie Vaudin

Inventory of the Papers, Title Deeds and Documents relative to the succession of the late Dame Marie Vodin and of her husband, Aaron Guillaume. [In Staff (bottom shelf) Box No. 1]. 

No. 1. Firstly, a letter under Bailiwick Seal dated 18 February 1697. Contents: Sieurs Jean Perchard and Aaron Guillaume in right of their wives sell to Sieur Edouard Mauger, son of Pierre, a certain house with a garden behind, in Fountain Street ...

No. 2. Item. Ditto dated 14 August 164. Sieur Pierre Gosselin, son of Pierre, sells to Jean Girard son of Jean, and to Jeann his wife daughter of Blaize Le Cocq, a certain small house with a yard and a small garden joining near to the Town Presbytyery ...

No. 3. Item. Ditto dated 9 October 1705. Marie Gagnepain, widow of Sieur Jean Bird and guardian of her daughter Marie Bird, sells to Moisë Vaudin son of Jean of the Island of Sark a certain four furze-breaks called Les Clos Vodins ... of which five livres tournois are due to the heirs of Dame Marie Vaudin. [Les Clos Vaudins]

No. 4. Item. Ditto dated 12 March 1719. The said Vaudin sells to Jean Moulin son of James of the Foulon two of the said furze-breaks ...

No. 5. Item. Another letter under Bailiwick seal dated 20 March 1694. Sieur John Bowden of England sells to Sieur Daniel Guerin of the town of Clérac in Angenois in Guyenne [Charente], a certain house and a part of the yard behind, in Fountain Street  ... rent due to Sieurs Jean Perchard and Aaron Guillaume in right of their wives, heirs of Anthoine Roland [Anthony Roland] son of Jean ...

No. 6. Item. Ditto, dated 5th September 1713. Dame Marie Vaudin daughter of Matthieu, sells to Sieur Jean Perchard and to Dame Suzanne Vaudin his wife, daughter of the said vendor [Marie Vaudin], a part of a house in Cornet Street (rue des Cornets) the other part of which house belongs to the said Perchard in right of his said wife ...

No. 7. Item. Ditto dated 5 March 1730. The said Guerin sells to Monsieur Henry Mauger son of Pierre, the said house that he had bought from the said Bowden, except for the School [Ecole] and the Granary to the East of the said house ... Sieur Mauger made over the said house to Sieur Willliam Guerin son of the said vendor 24 April 1731.

No. 8. Item. Dated 10 June 1732. Zachary Moulin son of Pierre sells to Guillaume Lihou son of Nicolas, a certain house, barn etc in the Castel ... of which some of the rent is payable to the heirs of Dame Mare Vaudin ...

No. 9. Item. Another letter under Bailiwick Seal dated 8 August 1695. Mr Pierre Jannon, Rector of the Town Church, assigns to Sieur Matthieu Vaudin to receive rents from various persons, the said rents due to the Rector because he was seized of certain land that Nicolas Guille had bought from Michel de Jersey son of Pierre.

No. 10. Item. Ditto dated 7 October 1620. Nicolas Thomes son of Thomas of St Martin sells to Jean Pitart son of Jean of the said parish, a certain strip (pièce) of land of 48 perches, ... [the rent for] which was sold by the said Thomes to Thomas Reserson son of Edmond according to a contract of 3 March 1634. [Pittard, Thoume]

No. 11. Item. Ditto dated 10 January 1633. Jean Effart son of Edmond and Marie his wife daughter of James Pezet, agreeing that they owed rent to Thomas Reserson son of Edmond from the sale [made by] the said couple; the assigned the said Reserson to receive the rent from David Navetel son of David of St Andrew ... [David Naftel]

No. 12. Item. Ditto dated 1 October 1684. Sieur David Naftel son of David sells to Sieur Nicolas Bonamy son of Nicolas of St Andrew, a certain house, barn, cowshed etc ... rent payable to Sieur Matthieu Vaudin in right of his wife the daughter of Sieur Jean Roland ...

No. 13. Item. Ditto dated 20 November 1630. Thomas Griffon son of Michel of the Vale, Vingtaine de l'Epine, sells a rent to Thomas Reserson son of Edmond ... [all 'Recerson']

No. 14. Item. Another letter under the Seal of the Court of St Michel, dated 31 March 1692. The aforementioned Griffon sells to Lucas Le Feyvre, son of Michel, three pièces of land called Les Petites Crouttes ...

No. 15. Item. Ditto.The said Reserson makes over to Pierre Griffon son of Thomas the whole of the retraite etc. that Philippin Le Goubey had made to the said Reserson. .. Letter of 14 May 1611.

No. 16. Another letter under the Seal of the Royal Court. Laurence Ollivier daughter of Thomas of St Martin, seized of the legacy of Thomas de France, sells, to the said Reserson, in right of his wife the daughter of Clement Perchard, and to his heirs, rent to be received from Nicolas Guillemotte son of Nicolas. Letter of 16 November 1620.

No. 17. Item. Ditto dated 7 March 1614. Guilaume Bachelay [Bachelet] son of Thomas, sells to the said Reserson and to his said wife (to the survivor) ...  a rent.

No. 18. Item. Ditto dated 16 November 1620. The said Laurence Ollivier in the said name sells to the said Reserson a rent.

No. 19. Item. Ditto dated 12 February 1619. The said Ollivier, widow of Thomas Thoumes, sells to Pierre Brehaut of St Pierre du Bois, the house and land from the said saisie ...

No. 20. Item. Another letter under Bailiwick Seal. The said Ollivier in the said name sells to Michelle Jenemie, widow of Mr Pierre Brehaut, a certain courtil situated in the parish of St Saviour. ...Letter of 16 September 1620.

No. 21. Item. Ditto dated 3 October 1624. Samuel Le Poidevin son of Jeames sells to Jean Langlois son of Nicolas a rent to be received from Jean Des Perques ... and a rent to the said Reserson (20 November 1630).

No. 22. Item. Ditto dated 16 July 1597. The aforesaid Brehaut in right of the aforesaid Michelle Jenemie, his wife, sells to Etienne Guillemotte son of Nicolas a part of a house situated in the High Street of the Town ...

No. 23. Item. Ditto dated 26 April 1611. Jean Pitard son of Jean, guardian of Tite Pitard and Anne Pitard, the children of Richard Pitard, makes over to Thomas Reserson son of Edmond the whole of any purchase that the said Richard may have made from Colas Le Petevin [Collas Le Poidevin, Nicolas Le Poidevin] son of Philippin, of a certain house with a garden behind in Fountain Street ...

No. 23a. Item. An Judgment on parchment, not signed, wrapped up in the said letter of & May 1611, which orders that the above sale be ratified and verified.

No. 24. Item. Dated 19 January 1621. Giles Le Patourel son of Jean sells to the said Reserson a rent .. which has to be discharged by Denis Le Petevin son of Colas. [Denis Le Poitevin]

No. 25. Item. Another latter under the same seal, dated 29 September 1593. Nicolas Guillemotte son of Nicolas sells to Thomas de Lisle of St Pierre de Bois a rent ...

No. 26. Item. Ditto dated 20 June 1557. Collas Le Ruez of St Ouen in the Island of Jersey, makes over to Julian du Douit all hereditary rights he may possess in this island, for a consideration of 20 silver gros of annual rent.

No. 27. Item. Dated 8 October 1580. Colas Le Petevin [Collas Le Poitevin] son of Philippin sells to Richard Pitard son of John, a certaine house with a garden behind in Fountain Street ...

No. 28. Item. Dated 11 June 1596. William Le Marchant son of Jean sells to Etienne Guillemotte son of Colas, a rent on Colas Hughues son of Colas ...

No. 29. Item. 30 April 1444. Nicolas Effart and his brother Guillaume Effart sons of John of the one part, and Lorens Careye son of 'lequel dit Careye', confirm that they have sold to the said Effart, the sum of 7 silver Sterlings on John Le Retiley of St Martin ...

No. 30. Item. Dated 26 March 1594. Colas Guillemotte son of Nicolas sells to Edouard Gagnepain son of Henry a rent. At the bottom of this document is appended a judgement of the Plaids d'Heritages by which Etienne Guillemotte, the brother of the aforememtioned Colas, has become owner of the said transacted item ...

No. 31. Another letter under the same seal, dated 20 June 1545. Nicolas Du Port son of Pierre of the one part and Guillaume Ballen son of John of the other ... an exchange of 3 ecus and rent

No. 32. Item. 18 August 1662. Le Sieur William Le Marchant, natural Guardian of ihs son, in the right of his mother Anne, daughter of Mr Jean Fautrart, sells to Thomas Rouget son of James and to Anne Mahy his wife, two small houses with a garden adjoining in the Contree du Bosq and ... rents due to Sieur Jean Roland in right of his wife Suzanne Reserson ...

Item. Arbitration on paper dated 6 January 1670, signed by Mr Elisée de Sausmarez concerning the dispute between Sieur Matthieu Vaudin in right of his wife son of the aforesaid Jean Roland, in right of Suzanne Reserson his late mother and the said Sieur Le Marchant in the aforesaid name, for 20 silver gros ... rent from Thomas Rouget son of James and his wife Anne Mahy.

No. 33. Item. 7 February 1666. Jean Rouget guardian of the children of Thomas Rouget sells to Sieur Pierre Goselin son of Nicolas a house, kitchen garden and garden at Glategny ... rent due to Sieur Jean Roland ...

No. 34. Item. 22 October 1701. Sieur Josué Gosselin sells to Jean Salmon the said house and assigns the said noble sterling to be paid by Sieur Aaron Guillaume in right of his wife in right of her mother.

No. 35. Item. Another letter under the same seal, dated 2 October 1707. Pierre du Parcq, guardian of the son of Jean Salmon son of Jean, sells to Jean Seamer son of Henry and to his wife Marguerite Heron, the aforesaid house and the small adjoining garden and its quay ...

No. 36. Item. 24 November 1671. Mr James de Beauvoir, tutor of the som of the late Mr Pierre de Beauvoir, sells to Sieur Matthieu Vaudin son of Jean a rent receivable from Benoît Le Lièvre...

No. 37. Item. 24 October 1635. Thomsa Reserson son of Edmond, admits that he owes a rent to Jean Painsec son of Jean.

No. 38. Item. 26 October 1618. Jean Dorey [Doré] son of Guillaume of the Parish of the Vale and Pierre Griffon son of Thomas make an exact exchange, land for land ...

No. 39. Item. 12 February 1704. Sieur Jean Perchard in right of his wife, Suzanne Vaudin, assigns Sieur Aaron Guilluame to receive a rent from Dame Rachel Gosselin ...

No. 40. Item. 16 September 1544. Colas Hamel son of Robin, sells to Colas Etur son of Colas, a Courtil in the area known as Les Vaudins ...

No. 41. Item. Letter under the aforementioned seal. Judgement dated 26 February 1565. Simon Vaudin [Vauldin] guardian and tutor of Guillaume Dorey [Doré] and Thomas Dorey, the children of Richard Dorey is successfully sued by Clement Perchard in right of his wife Marguerite du Douit and others, and is ordered to pay them a rent ...

No. 42. Item. 9 May 1640. Suzanne Perchard daughter of Clement, the woidow of Thomas Reserson, sells to Marie La Perre daughter of Colas a small pièce of land ...

No. 43. Item. Under the seal of the Court of St Michel. 13 May 1611. The aforesaid Reserson sells to Pierre Griffon son of Thomas everything that Philippin Le Goubey had sold and made over to the said Reserson.

No. 44. Item. Under Bailiwick Seal. 23 July 1731. Dlle Marie Whitehead admits that she owes Dlle Elizabeth Guillaume a rent receivable from Elizée Retiley des Hubits. [Le Retilley]

No. 45. Item. 24 April 1616. Abraham Guillemotte son of Nicolas sells to Etienne Guillemotte a part of a garden situated at Glategny ...

No. 46. Registered the 18 November 1683. Letter under the aforementioned seal. 29 October 1673. Elie Guillemotte son of Abraham and James Wright, natural guardian of his children in right of his late wife Rebecca Guillemotte, thier late mother, sellls to Sieur Matthieu Vaudin son of Jean rents ... to be paid by Sieur Jean Le Mesurier Snr... 

Item. A minute signed on 28 June 1630, by Monsieur Jean Bonamy, Lieutenant-Bailiff of Guernsey. Thomas Recerson son of Edmond makes over to Thomas Le Sbirel [Thomas Lesbirel] the whole of his share of a house that belonged to Nicolas Guillemotte and parceners ...

Item. An appeal heard before Monseur Helier Bonamy on 29 April 1719, between Dame Marie Vaudin seized of etc. etc. and Mr Michel Falla in which the two above letters (viz. Nox. 45 and 46) were read out. The said Falla affirmed that he was within his rights.

No. 47. Item. Letter under the aforesaid seal. 10 October 1595. Edmond Le Ruez son of Colas of St Ouen sells to Clement Perchard son of Clement of the said parish in Jersey a sum of 20 silver gros, English payment, payable by the heirs of Jean du Douit.

A minute signed in the Court dated 14 April 1671. Jean Robert, guardian etc. sells to Nicolas Rouget so nof Pierre of St Andrew a house, barn etc. rents due to Jean Roland in right of Suzanne Recerson his wife, and to Rachel Perchard ...

No. 48. Item. A letter under the aforementioned seal. Laurent Carey son of John of the one part and Robert Le Retilley [Retiley] of the other part, confirms he owes the said Carey a rent (the same as mentioned in No 29).

No. 49. Item.  Another ditto. 21 Octobe 1616, John Retilley successfully sued by John de Rosel Senior and ordered to pay rent owed.

A minute dated 3 June 1693. Sieur Pierre Gosselin and his wife Dame Marie Mauger take out mortgage with Sr Matthieu Vaudin on a wheat rent ...

Item. Two contracts signed by Messieurs Jean Renouf and Amice Andros and compared with the original by them.  

No. 50. Item. Letter under Bailiwick Seal. 25 March 1573. Clement Perchard son of Clement sells to John Le Prees son of John and to Collette his wife half of a house near Le Bosq ...

Item. Appeal. 24 November 1693, Sieur Aaron Guillaume in right of his wife and Michel Robert siezed of the inheritance of Thomas Navetel (Thomas Naftel) ...

Item. A minute signed in court dated 11 June 1679. Dame Rachel Le Moisne [Rachel Le Moigne], widow of Mr James Le Marchant and guardian of her children, assigns to Nicholas Le Marquy [Nicolas Le Marquis], part-heir of Marguerite Thames [Marguerite Thoume] his late mother, a rent payable by Matthieu Vaudin in right of his wife Rachel Roland.

Item. The first Bill of Partage of Sieur Jean Roland unsigned, on parchment, dated 20 September 1670 and another ditto on parchment.

Item. A copy of the First Bill of Partage of the legacy of Gaspard Ollivier (on paper) dated 2 January 1587.

Item. Second Bill of Partage of the legacy of Jean de Rozel (original) dated 17 January 1641. Signed by the coheirs.

Item. A copy of the First Bill of Partage of the legacy of the late Jean Roland on paper, dated 20 July 1670.

Item. A Bill of Partage of Sieur Helier Gosselin, dated 3 december 1675, on paper, signed by Messieurs Pierre Martin and Nicolas Thomes, [Nicolas Thoume], whichg is a collated copy drawn up on 8 September 1716.

Item. Ditto of the third part of the legacy of the said Gosselin dated 2 June, 1692, on paper, dated 2 June 1692, on paper, signed by the said Jurats. This is a copy checked against the original, drawn up 8 September 1716. 

Item. The 4th Bill of Partage (original) signed by Messieurs Elizée de Sausmarez and James Carey, Jurats.

Item. Ditto, dated 2 June 1692, of the items belonging to the legacy that Mr Josué Gossselin had divided into two Bills dated 13 February 1685. Signed by the said Jurats, it is a copy checked against the original, drawn up on 31 [May] 717.

Item. A minute which consists of a copy collated with the original by Messieurs Thomas Fiott and Josué Le Marchant, Jurats, dated 31 May 1717, in which Jean Mauger son of Nicolas sells a house situated on the Rue Tanquoël ...

No. 51. Item. A letter under Bailiwick Seal. dated 3 February 1664. An agreement between Sieur Thomas de Beauvoir and Sieur Jean Vaudin, concerning the ends of walls that the said Beauvoir needs to build at his house in Fountain Street. 

Item. A signed copy of the same agreement, on paper.

No. 52. Item. Another letter under Bailiwick seal, dated 20 March 1664. The aforesaid Jean Vaudin sells to Jean Roland, son of Thomas, one half of a house in Fountain Street ... rents payable to the said Jean Vaudin, with, item, a document showing that the said Roland made the said part of the house over to Jean Vaudin.

Item. Proof of the legacy of the late Sieur Aaron Guillaume. 

Item. Damoiselles Elizabeth and Esther Guillaume confirm that they sold to their brother, Sieur Matthieu Guillaume a rent that they had put on their brother Sieur Matthieu Guillaume for the part of a house that they owned, situated in the Rue Tanquoel. Dated 8 July 1727.

Item. A minute signed by the Court dated 13 July 1687. Jean Mansel son of Olivier assigned Sieur Matthieu Vaudin to receive rents from various people, in casjh and in poulages.

Item. Ditto, signed by the Court, dated 7 November 1665. Sieur Jean Vaudin makes over to Pierre Mauger Junior all his rights to the inheritance of Jean de Pourbail of which he was seized, on condition that he pay all the rents on the said saisie,  

Item. A collated copy of a contract signed by Messieurs Helier Bonamy and Nicolas Thomes [Nicolas Thoumes] dated 31 May 1717. Mr Pierre de Lisle son of Thomas sells to Matthieu Le Get son of Simon, a house called the Maison de Foquets [La Maison des Fauxquets] with its adjoining land ...

Item. Another collated copy signed by Messieurs Helier Bonamy and Daniel de Beauvoir dated 31 May 1717. Sieur Sieur Josué Gosselin sells to Alexander Gardin and his wife a house adjoinig the steps of His Majesty's Guardhouse ...

No. 53. Letter without a seal and unsigned. 31 March 1621. Abraham Guillemotte and his wife make over to Sieur Matthieu Vodin son of Jean, to Pierre Mansell, guardian etc. and to Josias Le Marchant guardian etc., all the inheritance that belongs to the said Guillemotte ...

No. 54. Item. Ditto dated 25 June 1608. Agreement between Philippin Mauger son of Nicolas, Jean Gosselin son of Nicolas and Jean de Sausmarez son of Nicolas, owners of a house in the Rue Tanquoël.

No. 55. Item. Ditto dated 16 October 1562. Another, unsigned, agreement between Mr Helier Gosselin, Bailiff, and Mr Nicolas de Sausmarez and parceners re the above house.

Item. A minute signed by the Court, dated 9 February 1697. Sieur Matthieu Vaudin in right of Mr Jannon, Rector of the Town, seized, etc, makes over to Sieur Henry Allez the whole saisie he has of the inheritance of the children of Elizée du Val, on condition that the said [Vaudin] pays to the Sieur Rector and his successors a rent ...

No. 56. Item. Another letter under the said seal dated 3 June 1682. An agreement between Thomas Hamptonne and Dame Esther Gosselin concerning their houses.

No. 57. Item. Ditto, dated 28 November 1685. Thomas Martin son of Thomas exchanges with Pierre Mauger, son of Nicolas, a Courtil called Le Mal-Assis,for a Furze-brake called Les Hurettes, the said Mauger making up the difference with a rent which is due to Sieur Matthieu Vaudin in right of his wife ... [Registered 18 January 1696.]

Item. A minute signed by Messieurs Charles and Jean Andros, Jurats. Dame Marie Vaudin, seized of Les Petites Crouttes which belonged to Lucas Le Feyvre [Lucas Le Fevre], in the Parish of the Vale, Vingtaine de L'Epine, sells them to Thomas Bougourd son of Josias ... [Registered 29 August 1728].

Item. The proof of the legacy of Thomas Recerson and his wife Suzanne Perchard.

Item. A minute signed by the Court dated 24 October 1635. The aforementioned Recerson confirms he owes Jean Painsec Junior a sum of rent assigned by Monsieur Pierre e Lisle.

 

 

 

 

 

[Mostly spelt Vodin, Recerson throughout.]