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1. — ^^ Helier Dumaresq deposeth that he knoweth " nothing, of his owne knowledge, of any act or hin- '* drance given by the said Captain unto John Car-

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'* teret, John Perin and Nichol. de Soulemont, for the " sale of their corne."

2. — " Magdolein Le Cerf knoweth allso nothîng, of " his owne knowledge, of the said lett or hîndrance."

3. — " Hugh Lemprière, gent., saith that he knoweth " nothing likewise thereof."

4. — " Clément Botterel saith that he knoweth " nothing likewise thereof, hecause no man ever " demanded leave of the Govemor, in his présence, ^* hut that about fiffteen dayes agoe, he asked leave ^^ of the said Govemor to sell certain corne for the '^ said Carteret, whereunto the Captain answered that " he should bring him the merchant unto whom he <* intended to sell, but he hath heard both Carteret and " others say that the Govemor had refused to give " them leave to sell their come."

5. — ^'^ Raulin de la Rocque deposeth and saith that '^ he knoweth nothing touchingtherefasallmentioned ^^ in the article of the said Govemor unto the said " Carteret, Perin et Soulemont, because he was not " présent when they asked leave."

6. — '^ Thomas de Soulemont saith that he knoweth ^^ not of the refusall, mençoned in the article, of the " said Govemor unto the said Carteret, Perin and " Soulemont, because he was not présent when they " asked leave."

7. — " John de Soulemont saith that he knoweth ^^ nothing, of his owne knowledge, of the said refiisalL" 8. — ^' Edward Hampton jun., 'knoweth nothing '' likewise thereof, of his knowledge."

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9. — ^^ NichoL De Rue knoweth likewise nothmg- ^^ thereof, of his owne knowledge, but that he hath '^ heard Carteret say, that the Govemor refosed to give " him leave."

10. — " John Anley saith that he cannot dépose of " the pretended lett or hîndrance supposed to be made *^ to the saîd Ferin, Carteret and Soulemont, for the " sale of iheir corne."

11. — ^'^ Edw. Bîsson deposeth that he knoweth not " whether the Captain refosed to give the said Perîn, '' Carteret and Soulemont, leave to sell theh: corne, ^' but he saith that the Governor, about three or four " yearee agoe, refosed to give him leave."

12. — ^^ Thomas De Odest saith that he knoweth '^ nothing, of his owne knowledge, that the said parties " hâve been hindered to seU their corne, nor any ^' others, but he hath heard say that some had been « hindered/'

18.—^^ Helier Messervy saith that he cannot dépose ^^ that the said parties hâve been hindered by their " Govemor to sell their corne."

14. — " Bobert Veneman, Customer, saith, upon his " oath, that he knoweth not that the said parties plain- " tives hâve been denyed leave by their Govemor to " sell their corne."

16. — " Jacques Pipon know.eth likewise nothing of " the said hindrance unto the said parties, but saith '* that the Customer would not suffer him to transport «< about three quarters of corne, about seaven night ^^ agoe, out of the isie, to viotuall his ship therewith,

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^^ which was at St. Malo's/' Note that then and now " they hold of the leaguers part, which is well knowne " unto U8 Commissioners.

Bapport des Commissaires. Item, " to the eighth, ^^ that there was no sufficient proofe made by the ** complainants of the contents of this article ; and yet " were examined, on the plaintiffs behalfe, as many ^' witnesses as made their appearance before us upon '^ point of this article, which dépositions we hâve allso « certifyed."

Il est icy parlé de trois personnes de condition, à qui l'on prétend que le Gouverneur auroit refusé la licence de vendre leurs grains pour les transporter hors risle. Quantité de témoins font assès voir que c'étoit en effet un bruit commun. Ce seroit aux complaignans une effronterie merveilleuse d'avoir faussement accusé le Gouverneur. H est vrai qu'il ne se trouve pas de témoins qui eussent été présens lors que les complaignans lui parlèrent, mais Botterel rapporte formellement que lors qu'il demanda congé pour Jean De Carteret, on lui dist qu'il amenast le marchand. Que signifie cela, qu'une espèce de rebut t Fipon ne dit rien des complaignans, mais il affirme qu'il fut refusé lui-même, et le Gouverneur se taist là-dessus ; au lieu que les Commissaires le justifient officieusement, en ajoutant qu'ils sçavoyent bien que St. Malo étoit du party de la ligue. Si le Gouverneur pouvoit justifier le refus, soit par instruction particulière qu'il en eust, soit par quelque précaution qui pour lors eust été requise, quel besoin étoit-il de

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faire prouver ce refus ] Il me semble que la manière dont on décide cet article, est bien différente de celle dont on a décidé le cinquième ; que le refus est plus prouvé de souffrir le transport des grains, que ne l'étoit la négative de l'article cinquième, que le Gouverneur J

n'avoit sçu rien du voyage d'Espagne; et que cet endroit n'est pas un des moins propres pour découvrir le penchant des Commissaires.

9. — " Whether by order and law of the Isle the " Court of Héritage ought to be kept every six weekes, " and the Court of Cattel ought to be kept every " fourthnight, as the complainants do alledge î Whe- " ther the Courts hâve been kept at the times as the " order of the said isle doth permitt, and if not, then " in what default the same hath been, and which î *' And if matters belonging to the said Courts hâve " not been tryed in a Court called Extraordinary î "

Eapport des Commissaires. Item, ^' to the ninth, " it did evidently appear unto us that the Court of " Héritage ought not to be kept every six weekes, " and the Court of Cattel every fourthnight, as the ^^ plaintives do prétend. Besides there hath not been " any default in keeping the said Courts, neither hath " there been any matter belonging to the Court of " Héritage and Cattel tryed in the said Extraordinary " Court, contrary to the privilèges of the said island. " For it appeareth unto us, upon such a view of the '^ Court booke and records, and by a great number of "précédents and records; that matters most aptLy " belonging to the Court of Héritage and Cattel,

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*^ were of andent times dealt withall and adjudged in '^ the Conrt called Extraordinary, and bo £rom time << to time to this day, with which proofes the Flaûitiff ^^ seemed satififyed."

10. — ^^ Whiether the sentence hath been given ^* against the said John Carteret or others, during ^^ theh: attendance hère, before the Lords, or elsewhere, " by Greorge Poulet, Esq., Bailiff there, and others the '^ Jurats, and sett to a fine and dedared ontlawed, " without any just cause, and when the same was "doner

Bapport des Commissaires. Item, '^ to the tenth, " the Flaintifiis did not proove before us any sen- ^* tence given without cause against them or against ^^ any of them, or any other, during theîr attendance ^' before the Lords, or that the said Carteret was sett ^' to a fine and declared outlawed without cause, but ^^ he became non-suite in action by his owne deÊiult, " for that he appointed not a Procurer or Attomey, <^ as he ought to hâve done. And this suite was " lately begun and the title was confessed by the said ^^ Carteret, Flaintifie, to be llllxx and six years old, " tho' the possession had ail this time gone against ^^ ViîTn and his ancestors, and he might renew his " suite for a matter of three sols, and fiirther he <« being lawfuUy adjoumed or summoned in a crimi- ^' nall cause and contemptuously refusing to appeare, ^^ and thereupon departing the Island without licence, " contrary to the privilèges there, had thereupon sen- <« tence of contumacy justly pronounced against him."

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C'est la vérité que, dans le fond, la plainte que fait icy le Sieur Jean De Carteret n'étoit point juste. Les affaires qu'il pouvoit avoir à solliciter devant les Seigneurs du Conseil, ni même la plainte qu'il y pouvoit faire contre le Bailly Poulet et quelques Jurez, ne le dispensoit point de répondre sur d'autres ma^ tières, qui n'étoyent pas dévolues en haut par de légitimes voyes. Eum qui appellavit oportere in Pro^ vincid de/endi in alûs suis causis, etiamsi appellatianis causa peregrinetur. L.\. D. eum qui appel 8i quis ex alid causa appellaverit à Judice ; * in alià causa eundem judicem habere necesse habeat, videamus? et hodiè hoc jure utitnur: et tametsi appellatio interposita sit^ tamen apud eundem judicem, à quo quis pravocavit, compeUitur'\ alias causas, si quas habet, agere; nec utatur hoc protextu quasi ad offensum judicem non debeat experiri, càm possit denuo provocare. L. unie. D. Apud eum à quo appel. Is qui ad Reman. Ouriam appellavit in alûs causis jurisdictioni sui Ordi^ naru subjidiur. Cap. 3, de Appellat in 6to. Lnbert. Insti. Forens. Lib. 2, Cap. 6, distingue en cela les Juges Boyaux d'avec les autres, mais il est constant qu'aujourdliuy dans l'isle, ces règles du Droit Civil et du Droit Canonique se pratiquent aussi dans tous les Plaids Subalternes; et tant s'en faut que l'Appelant ne puisse pas procéder en d'autres cas, le Docteur Maranta, in Speculo aureo, est d'avis, que l'appel ni la doléance ne sont couverts que lors qu'en-

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suite on fiedt dans le même procès des actes incompatibles, quandà appelions facit actum cantrarium appeU latiùni suœ, non H facit actum tendentem ad majorem carrobaraHonem appellatianis suœ. Cependant il est certain qu'eu 1591, le Sieur Jean De Carteret pouvoit alléguer laCioûtume de Normandie, qui dit au Style de Procéder, ^^ qu'aulcun depuis que le grief lui a esté &it, ou qu'il est venu à sa connoissance, ne doit point errementer, ne procéder devant le Juge duquel il dit avoir esté grevé, et que s'il y procédoit, il couvriroit son grie£" Masuer, au Titre d'Appellations, dit aussi, ^^ quand quelcun intente appel il est exempt de la Jurisdiction en toutes causes, encore que l'appel ne soit pour deny de Justice, mais simplement pour grief." Vid. la Coutume de Bretagne, Articles 17ô et 176. En 1553, le 25 Novembre, un Acte de la Cour de Jersey fait voir qu'il &lloit alors du moins protester quand on procédoit par devant le même juge dont on s'étoit porté pour doléant En ce mot les Commissaires, qui justifient icy le BaiUy Poulet et les Jurez qui n'avoyent pas laissé de prononcer sentence contre Jean De Carteret, pendant qu'il s'étoit retiré de poursuivre en haut ses plaintes, sont les mêmes qui ne désapprouvent point une autre sentence du BaUly et Jurez, du 24 Octobre, 1587, par laquelle l'appel du Sieur Jean De Carteret est dit éteint et couvert, procédant par devant le même juge appelé. Ce qu'on impute encore au Sieur De Carteret, departing the Idand mthaut leave, est directement opposé à TOrdonnance du Roy Henry VU. '^ Nous avons donné

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et donnons, par ces présentes, fieunilté et licence à nos subjects de nostre Isle de Jersey et à chacun d'eux, d'aller et venir d'ycelle nostre Isle, ai nos antres Fais et Seigneuries, estant en nostre subjection et obéissance, et d'yceux s'en retourner en leurs maisons de nostre dite Isle, au sçu et connoissance de nos Grouvemeurs présents et futurs, sans ce qu'il leur soit besoin demander ne obtenir de nosdits Capitaines et Gouverneurs, ou leurs Députez, ou Gommins, autre moyen que celui nostre plaisir, congé et licence, &€."

11. — " Whiether, when Lawrence Mallet was robbed *' in that Isle, complaint was made to George Poulet, ^* what the said George did thereupon, or what de- ^ £Biult ihe same George did conceming the same 1 "

1. — ^^ Edward Julian, Constable of Grouville, de- ^^ poseth upon his oath, that the day where one La. << Mallet was robbed, the same night Francis Amy and ^^ John Joumeaulx went to speake to the Baillif about ^' it, and that a Uttle while after the Baillif com- <' manded him to make a generall search thoroughout << his parish for the same isxX that was done, and so (( he knoweth no de&ult there in the Baillif."

2. — ^"^ Thomas Amy, sonne to Francis, cannot de- " pose touching this Article, for he knoweth not ^^ whether ever any man made complaint thereof unto « the swd Baillif yea or noe."

3. — Francis Amy, sonne to Clément Amy, deposeth ^^ that in the evening of the same day wherein La. «« Mallet was robbed, he went to the Castle to speake ^^ with the said Baillif about the same, where not

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" finding him, he retomed to the Towne, where he ^^ met with him and told him ail the matter, where- '^ upon the said Baillif said unto the said Francis, ^^ being one of the sworne men of his parish, that " every man should do his best to find out the theeves, ^* and thereupon, within a Uttle while after, a gênerai ^* search was made throaghout ail the Isle.

4.—" Henry Mallet, a sworne man of the said " parish, saith that he knoweth not of any complaint " made unto the Baillif of the said robbery, but he ^^ knoweth that a little while after, a generall search '^ was made throughout the Isle."

5. — " Henry Amy, tithing man of the said parish, *< deposeth in ail things as Henry Mallet hath before " deposed."

6. — " Lawrence Mallet, which is the partie men- " çoned in the Article, the widow that was robbed, ^' deposeth and saith, that some of the best of the " parish went to make complaint thereof unto the ^' Baillif, and that within a little while a generall ^' search was made through the whole Island, and that '* she for her part hath noe cause to complain of the " said Baillif-"

7. — " Philip Amy deposeth and saith that he ^* knoweth not of any complaint made of the said " robbery unto the BaiUif, yea or noe, but he re- ^^ membreth that a generall search was made through ^* the Isle, and that at the time thereof the common ^^ report was that the stolen goods were allready at " Granville.'*

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8. — ^^ John Aabin deposeih and saith that he ^^ knoweth not of any complaint made unto the said «< Baillif of the said robbery, but that witbin a litde ^* while after, diligent search was made through the " Me."

9. — ^^ Anthoine Fayn deposeth and saith that he ^^ knoweth not of any complaint made nnto the said ^' Baillif, or of any de&ult in him, for that he was sick " in his bed when the robbery was committed.'*

Rapport des Ciommissaires. Item, ^' to the eleventh, ^^ that upon the said robbery, hue and cry was daely ^' levied and there was no de&nlt in the said Baillif ^^ for the said La. Mallet, being the party robbed, " produced a wittnesse on the said PlaintifiTs behalfe " and ail the rest of the déponents, which we hâve " likewise certifjred, doe dear the said Greorge Poulet"

On fidsoit icy une grande réflexion sur la conduite du Baillif, et l'on dit que les témoins le justifient: Cependant il ne se trouve point qu'il en ait demandé ni qu'on lui en ait fiiit faire réparation aucune.

12. — ^^ The said Gommissioners shall examine and ^^ certifie their Lordshipps ail such wrongs as shall be ^^ pres^ited unto them to be done to the said An- " thony and George to any person within ihe said '^ Isle, against the priviledges thereof, for seeing that ^^ the Comnûssioners sludl take bonds of the parties << that shall offer any complaint, that if the complainte ^^ shall not be found true, that the complainants shall ^^ make recompense unto the said parties, as the Com- ^' missioners shall assese, or repaire to the Lords of the " Councell to receive due punishment"

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13. — " That such persons that do fevor the said ^^ Anthony and George Poulet within the said Isle, *^ and being malicious persons to Ferin and Carteret ^^ shall, upon their corporall oath that they stand in " feare of thehr lives, be bound to peace/'

Bapport des Commissaires. Item, ^Uo the 12th ^^ and 13th Articles for our better service and dis- " charge of our duties, we caused three Publick " Proclamations to be madé, two of which were two ^^ severall markett days, and the other at an other ^^ day after in the greatest assembly of people, to this " effect, that if any would informe us against the " Captain and Baillif, or any her Majestie's Officers ^ of the said Isle, upon and according to the contents '^ of the said 12th and 13th Articles, they should be ^^ heard. "Wliereupon some petiçons containing sun- " drie greefes were preferred, but they ail refused to *^ enter into bonds according to the Article, ail which ^^ complaints specially tended to the enfeebling of her ^^ Majestie's prérogative, there and the cutting off the ^^ duties due in respect of the Castle and her Majes- ^^ tie's garrison there, which seemed to us to be sett '^ on foot by the incitation of the said Carteret, the <« plaintîffe, and his secret complices, as well to take *^ advantage of the opportunitie offered, as make the ^^ wrong more generall, thereby to encrease the num- *^ ber of the complainants : never the lesse, we ** entered into the open hearing of them, a part upon «« the hearing presently, and the rest at our last ge- " nerall assembly of the States, ressembling our Par* '< liament of England, were fully satisfyed.

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14. — " The behaviour and conditions of ail her ^^ Majestie's Officers of the said isle shall be duly exa- " mined and certifyed, without respect of any person ^' concerning tbe Govemment at martiall causes, there '^ appartaining to justice. The examinaçon to be ^^ used, not by any generalitie, as it were ex o^kio, ^' but upon particular informations to be delivered " unto them."

Rapport des Commissaires. Item, ^* to the 14th ^' article, the said Ferin and Carteret requiredus not '^ to doe any thing touching the same."

16. — " What summes of money hâve been levyed '^ by the said Anthony and George, or at their discre» ^^ tion, of the inhabitants \vithin the said isle, for pro- '^ vision of munition and fumiture for needfuU défense " of the same, since the said Anthony was Captain or ^^ Lieutenant there ; and to shew what value the " summe was of, aad how it is employed, and what '^ munitions and fumiture thereof remaineth t This " allso to be examined upon informaçon given in '^ particular manner, and bonds to be taken abovesaid."

Rapport des Commissaires. Item, '^ to the ISth. ^' There was no particular informaçon ofiered us with ^' bonds according to the contents of this article, all- '^ though we did often times request the parties plain- *' tives and generally ail the assembly to informe us at '^ large touching the same. But the Captain, hearing. '^ that a long time after ail thèse matters preferred ^' against him were heard, that none would informe '' us upon this article, desired us for the better open- '^ ing of his and the said George Foulet's sincexitie,