ARTICLES DES SIEURS JEAN PERIN ET JEAN DE CARTERET

" ARTICLES TO BE ENQUIRED BY THE COMMISSIONERS AP- POINTED UPON THE GRIEFES EXHIBITED TO HER MAJESTT AND THE LORDS OF HER PRIVY COUNCELL, BY JOHN PERIN AND JOHN CARTERET, AGAINST ANTHONY POULET, ESQ., GOVERNOR OF THE ISLE OF JERSEY, AND GEORGE POULET, ESQ., BAILLIP THERE."

1. — " Whether the said Anthony Poulet hath com- '^ pelled the inhabitants of . St. Clément and other " inhabitants of the said Isle, to do carnages which " they ought not to do ; when he so did ; what occa- " sion ; and how many î "

Rapport des Commissaires. " We, Turtullian Pyne, " Dr. of the Law, and Robert Napper, Esq.,by vertue " of her Highnesse Commission of Oyer et Déterminer ^ " under the Great Seale of England, unto us directed, " and hereunto annexed, do humbly certifie unto your '' Honorable Lordshipps, our Judgements, Sentences '' and Déterminations, upon the hearing of the matters " mençonedin the articles annexed unto the said com- '' mission. And first, touching the articles exhibited " unto Her Majesty and your Honorable Lordshipps " by John Perin and John Carteret, gents., against " Anthony Poulet, Esq., Governor of the Isle of Jeriey,

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*' and George Poulet, Baillif there^in manner and forme '^ foUowing, that is to say: In Primis, touching the ** first article, our judgement and détermination waa << and is, that the said Anthony Ponlet compelled not ^' the inhabitants mentioned in this article to do any ^ carnages which they ooghtnot to do, as by the said " article is snpposed."

2. — " Whether the said Anthony Poulet, or any " other, by his directions, hâve cutt downe any trees, ^' and how many, of Edward Hamptonne or others, " contrary to the course of Justice ; when he so did, '^ and upon what occasion î "

Bapport des Commissaires. Item, ** to the second, ^ we are of opinion, that neither the said Anthony " Poulet, nor any other, by his appointment or direc- *^ tion, hath or hâve cutt downe any trees of the said ^* Hampton, or of any other, contrary to the liberties '* br the course of justice, as is pretended by this « article/'

3.*^*' Whether the said Anthony Poulet hath taken ** up of any of the inhabitants of the said isle, any ^' yictuals, under pretence of provision for the Castie ^^ there, contrary to the priviledges of the said isle; of << whom; and when he so did; and upon what occasion V

Rapport des Commissaires. Item, ^^ to the third, ^* we find that the said Anthony Poulet hath not taken ^ up of the said inhabitants of the said isle, any vie» ^^ tuais under pretence of provision for the Castie there, ^ contrary to the priviledges of the said isle.''

Voilà trois articles passez sans aucune discussion^

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Mesneun Pyne et Napper disent qu'ils ne trouvent point que le Gouverneur ait rien Mt contre les privilèges, n fietut que les Seigneurs du Conseil Privé, qui ne voyent la nature des choses, ni dans la déposition d'aucun témoin, ni dans la citation d'aucune charte, s'en tiennent à la honne foy de ce rapport. L'évasion est icy tout évidente : on ne sçait si les Commissaires veulent dire que le Gouverneur n'a point exigé de charroys, ou ùàt couper des arhres, &c., ou si l'ayant fait, il n'a point enfreint les privilèges. Apparemment ils crurent que le Gouverneur avoit droit de £siire ce qu'il avoit fait ; cependant ils n'osent le dire nettement, car en effet ni le Gouverneur Raley, qui succéda, ni les Commissaires de 1607, ne furent pas, sur les mêmes faits, de l'opinion de ceux de 1591. Il ne jugèrent point que les possessions des précédents Grouvemeurs, ni les accords qu'ils avoyent faits avec les habitans, peussent subsister avec l'Ordonnance du Roy Henry Vil. Ces réflexions sont peut-estre trop hardies : il ne &ut pas, dira»t-on, critiquer ainsi des personnes d'un tel rang, sur des choses passées il y a plus d'un siècle. Mais il y auroit encore plus de mal à laisser régner des erreurs, et ne pas prendre le parti de la vérité, surtout dans des affaires de cette conséquence.

4. — *^ Whether the said Anthony Poulet hath, àbout *^ four yeares past, transported a sacre out of the said <^ Castle, to the Seigneur of St. Ouen, and upon what *^ occasions ; was the same serviceable or not ; and ^' whether the said Anthony Poulet hath sold away

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<' any other peeces of Ordinance called fowler, or ^' others appartainiDg to her Majesty for défense of that " Castle ; how many such there were sold ; when the ^' same sold ; and upon what occasion ? "

" DEPOSITIONS OF WITNESSES OF THE SAID PARTIES PBO- DUCED UPON THE 4th ARTICLE."

1. — " Edmond De Quetteville deposeth that of cer- " tainty a sacre was brought downe from the tower " for the parishioners of St. Martin's, npon pretence " that they would buy the same, and that it was tryed ** with their own powder. That they could not agrée " of the price, and he is not able to say, whether it " was serviceable or not. And touching other peeces " brought ont of the Castle, he hath heard say that '' the same were sold, and that he saw one at Cosmes " Cabot, a smith, but he knoweth not the weight of " the said peece, nor in what yeare he saw it there."

2. — " Edmond Payn saith, that he had seen a " sacker dismounted at the Castle, which layd there " unprofitable for thèse twenty yeares, and was offered " unto the parishioners of St. Martin's by the Go- " vernor, that they should keepe it and restore the " same at their's or his pleasure, but he knoweth not " what is become of the said sacker, nor whether it " was serviceable. Touching other peeces of iron, he " saw a heape dismounted at the Castle, of which he " knoweth not what is become, nor of what weight or " value they might be, and he knoweth ail that is " above said, because he went to scoole many yeares