The English Butcher and the Brewer, April 1801
'Let me come at him, I will do for him, Damn him, a Butcher, I will do for him.'
Legal
De Beaucamp judgment
From Edith Carey Notebook, Visits to Guernsey.
Le Pelley notes from Col. Le Pelley's MSS II
Contrats pour lire: 21 July 1589. Jean Le Pelley fils Collas de St Pierre du Bois [sells ] 6 bs de rente a Thomas de Lisle. Ditto 18 June 1598. Collette Pezett fille de Jean, de St Pierre Port [widow] de Jean Le Fyvre [sells] pour £33 sterling d'Angleterre & 12bs d'annuelle rente, La Croutte Pezett en St André, au fyeu des Esperons, cont. 10 vergees de terre, au north du Cortill John Bailleull, à l'est [] des Gouyes appartenant à Martin Belin à cause de [sa] femme fille de Thomas de Garys. A Collas Le Pelley fils Charles. Do. 5th September 1570 . Edmond Ettur [sells] à Pierre Le…
Le Pelley notes from Col. Ernest Le Pelley's MSS
Transcriptions of documents referring to the Le Pelley family, from Sark/Le Pelley file in the Library.
Guille family contracts &c
From Guille family file in the Library. St Peter Port and St Martin 15th and 16th centuries. Typescript transcription.
Notes from Edward Dobree's MSS
Udney Hall, Teddington. transcriptions of contracts &c., in Guille family file in the Library.
Hirzel Frederick de Lisle and Mary Carey, Pre-nuptial agreement, 1832
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
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.