Royal Commission, Guernsey 1607 (1814)

Author(s): Royal Commissioners appointed to Guernsey, 1607 (ed. anon)

Title: Documens relatifs à l'île de Guernesey revues at corrigés d'après les pièces originales No. 1, bound with No. 2: Causes heard, ordered, and determined, at St Peter Port, in the island of Guernsey, before Robert Gardner, Kt, and James Hussey, LD His Majesty's Commissioners, from the 16th October, to the 20th December, 1607.

Remarks:

A Royal commission created by letters patent dated 25 July 1607 appointed Sir Robert Gardner and Dr James Hussey to Guernsey and Alderney to hear a wide range of complaints and make orders and judgments. The commissioners' findings, overall, were endorsed by an Order in Council of 30 June 1608. In its first part this work contains the complaints of the parishes and the people generally and the commission's responses. Private causes are the subject of second part. Both texts are drawn from a single manuscript volume in the Greffe, Guernsey. Edition(s) (this copy in bold): 1814 Provenance of this copy: St John Robilliard Collection

Further reading:

A.J. Eagleston, The Channel Islands under Tudor Government, 1485-1642: a study in administrative history (ed. J. le Patourel, Cambridge, 1949), pp. 103-108.