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.'
Library Document Collection
The Metivier Family
Despite many advantages, the Métivier family, which included George Métivier (1790-1881), philologist and Guernsey's 'national' poet, suffered many ups and downs, and the collection of family letters held in the Library makes entertaining reading. The woodcut is by Dr Thomas Bellamy from his Pictorial Dirctory of 1843 in the Library collection.
Ralph Durand
Ralph Durand (1876-45) came from an important Guernsey Huguenot family and was the Librarian at the Priaulx before and during the Second War. He was an explorer and author whose family history, described here, is full of interest, and includes refugees, soldiers, ministers, a provost of Eton, an actor-manager, and politicians.
Second Bill of Partage of Guillaume Henry's estate, 1512
Transcribed in Partages No. 1, Staff.
Will of Gillette Sampson, 1663
From Guernsey's Ecclesiastical Court. No. 7 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies, Staff.
Will of Marie de la Rue 1663
No.5 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies, Staff.
Will of Anne Blondel, 1662
No. 4 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies (Staff). The film of the original Ecclesiastical Court records may be consulted in the Library.
Will of Thomas Le Page, 1669
No. 49 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies books of transcriptions.
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…
Will of Thomas Le Pelley, 1643
From Edith Carey's Notes on Sark, Le Pelley MSS. [Presumably a contemporary] translation from the French. Court of Probate, London.