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

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.

Jacques Le Batard

The cage and pillory from Lukis memoirs in Priaulx Library Collection

The Gazette de L'Isle de Guernesey, of which the Priaulx Library has copies to view, published an unusual announcement in July of 1795. The newspaper reproduced in its entirety the sentence passed in the Royal Court upon a Frenchman from St Germain in Normandy, called Jacques Le Batard. The results of criminal trials were not normally published in the early Gazettes. Why this one? The sketch of the pillory and cage in 1795 are from the Lukis memoirs in Edith Carey's Scrapbooks in the Library.

A fast worker: Ozanne versus Peddle, February 1837

An appeal to the Royal Court. From the Comet, February 16, 1837.

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