Montville MSS

Edith Carey's transcription of papers lent her by Major Hubert Walters of Montville. Begun January 2 1907.

p. 3. Bailiwick seal. 22 April 1478. Pierre de Beauvoir, Bailiff. In the island of Guernsey in the Town of St Peter Port, before Thomas Blondel and Thomas de Havilland, Jurats. John Le Hurey son of John of St Peter Port of the one part sells to John de Normantville son of Denis of St Peter Port of the other part. John de Normanville sells to John Le Huray a courtil containing around a vergee of land, in the parish of St Peter Port situated above th Moulin de Haut de la Vrangue between the Courtil Pierre Martin and the Longs Camps [Longcamps]. 

Bailiwick seal. 10 February 1693. In the presence of Charles Andros, Ecr., Seigneur d'Anneville, Lieutenant to Messire Edmund Andros, Chevalier, Sieur de Sausmarez and Bailiff of the island of Guernsey for William and Mary. Jean Careye and Jean Andros, Jurats, appeared Maitre Moyse Benoist, Minister of the Holy Gospel in the Island of Sark, both in his own right and in right of his wife. He is at this time on this island, appoints as his attorney Sieur Jean Bonamy son of the late Sieur Jean Bonamy of St Martin. Signed Andros, J Careye, W Le Marchant.

p. 5. 27 July 1642. Pierre Careye, Seneschal of the Court of St Michel. Jean Blondel, Michel de Sausmarez, and Jean Brehaut, Jurats of the Court. Amice Andros, Esq., Seigneur of Sausmarez, elder son and principal heir of the late Monsieur Thomas Andros, who while he was alive was the Seigneur of the said place, of the one part, and Sieur Josué Gosselin, guardian of Cecille, minor daughter of the late Sieur de Sausmarez and sister of the said Amice of the other part. The said Amice comes to an aimable accord with Cecille in the matter of the succession of their late father, in the following manner: etc etc, Amice takes the fief etc., deals with their father's debts, pays them off for his ssiter and agrees to continue to look after her as her father did. Gosselin the guardian of Cecile, who is there present, who has reached the age of 17, by her wish and agreement, and with the advice and agreement of Demoiselle Elizabeth de Carteret, her mother, and of Sieur Jean Bonamy Jr, Nicolas Gosselin, Jean de Sausmarez and Henry de la Marche, her relatives, agrees to the transfer. Cecile is given 18 vergees of land from the inheritance that are situated in the Clos de Jerbourg.