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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.

Wills & Legacies

Will of Jean Vautier, 1699

21st November 2024

I, Jean Vautier being sound of body [but] being of a profession in which I often fnd myself in danger of death because of storms at sea ... Firstly, to the poor of St Peter Port, 20 sous tournois. Item . To my two sisters, Marie and Elizabeth, 10 sous each and as for the remainder: to my beloved wife Catherine Le Poitevin for her to live the rest of her life in the house and land that I own at Fermain, in right of my mother, Marie Le Chevalier [La Chevaliere]. Drawn up at St Peter Port 9 May 1699. Jean Patron, witness, William de Putron, witness. IGBD Reg: 4 May 1703

Will of Marie Olivier, 1663

20th November 2024

No. 9 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies 1

Will of Thomas Le Pelley, 1643

22nd May 2024

Translation from the French transcribed by Edith Carey in her Sark notebook in the Priaulx Library.

Guernsey miscellanea

28th November 2019

Guernsey miscellanea, a notebook by Edith Carey

Will of Nicolas Le Huray, 1701

29th September 2016

Will no. 175 from Edith Carey's set of transcripts, Wills & Legacies, Staff, in the Library.

Will of Daniel Le Moyne, 1680

1st September 2016

From Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies, a MS transcription of early Guernsey wills from the Ecclesiastical Court records, p 112.

Wills of Edward Cotton, 1691, and Marie Cotton, 1693

15th June 2016

From Edith Carey's transcription Wills and Legacies I, nos 154 and 159.

Wills and legacies

12th February 2016

A list of the nearly 200 wills dating from 1663-1707, transcribed and annotated by Edith Carey in 1916 in her notebook, Wills and legacies I & II, in the Staff collection at at the Library.

Tenure of real property in the island of Guernsey

22nd September 2015

From The Law Magazine and Law Review, or Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence, May-August 1859, pp. 23 ff. Probably a comment on the reaction in Government circles to the Commissioners' Report of 1848, it also happens to provide a helpful explanation of the distribution of landed property and rentes in Guernsey. 'When the right and power is preserved among a free people of regulating their own legal and social customs, the habit of self-government thus engendered generally saves their country from the anomaly and inconvenience of the institutions and procedure being immediately at variance with the wants and character of the people.'

Manuscripts 1309-1464

15th September 2015

List of the contents of the bound volume entitled only MSS 1309-1464. The transcriptions are by various hands, and mostly appear to be late 17th century. The individual documents are in Latin or French and most have been published elsewhere.

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