Will of Gillette Sampson, 1663
From Guernsey's Ecclesiastical Court. No. 7 in Edith Carey's Wills and Legacies, Staff.
Women
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.
Amelia Maria Hortensia Collings
'Medical jurisprudence in relation to insanity,' from The Journal of psychological medicine and mental pathology, Volume 1, 1848.
Hirzel Frederick de Lisle and Mary Carey, Pre-nuptial agreement, 1832
From the De Lisle family file in the Library (No. 9). 'Articles of agreement made in the Island of Guernsey, on the Sixth day of October, In the year of our Lord 1832, by and between Hirzel Frederick de Lisle Esquire, son of the late Hirzel De Lisle Esquire, of the said Island, of the one part, Mary Carey, Spinster, daughter of John Carey Esquire, son of John, of the said Island, of the second part, and the said John Carey Esquire, of the third part. Bear witness.' The illustration is of Hirzel de Lisle's house, Hirzelbourne, now Swissville. The woodcut is by Dr Thomas Bellamy and was published in 1843 in his Pictorial Directory and Stranger's Guide to Guernsey.
Documents, Le Hurel
From a wonderful cache of documents from Le Hurel in St Saviour's, donated by Esther Hatton in 2014.
Rosa Brock's Sketchbook
These lovely watercolours are the work of Rosa, the daughter of General Sir Isaac Brock's brother, Savery Brock. They have been given to the Library on long-term loan by Rosa's great-great-neice, Sally Greenaway of New Zealand.
Lines written on quitting the Vauquiedor, October 1813
From Le Miroir Politique, Saturday 23 October 1813. 'Original Poetry: the following Lines are the production of a Lady, whose poetical talents are not wholly unknown to this Island. A copy of them having fallen into our hands, we have not hesitated to insert it, from a persuasion that it will be acceptable to our numerous readers.' The Vauqiédor estate was acquired by Thomas Fiott de Havilland who transformed it into Havilland Hall.
Mariage encombre
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.
The will of Marie de Rozel, 1669
No. 48 in Edith Carey's collection of transcripts, Wills and Legacies; the will of Marie's son, Charles; and distribution of the estate of her grandson, Jacques Bouillon.