56 GUERNSEY DOMESTIC PLATE. 



On June 21st, 1561, a deed, dated December 19th, 1539, 

 was registered in the Royal Court by Cardin Fautrat, on 

 account of Jeanne his wife, daughter of Thomas Coquerel, 

 junior, of St. Peter-Port. It was between Edmond Coquerel, 

 son of Pierre, " Marchant grocyer " of London, acknowledg- 

 ing the receipt — as Executor of Thomas Coquerel, junior — 

 from his brother Guillaume, living in Guernsey, of various 

 items of money, plate, &c, belonging to the estate of their 

 deceased brother Thomas Coquerel. 



These goods were brought over to London by Phelipot 

 Le Marinel and Gringoire le Prevost, and indicate that 

 Thomas Coquerel in his lifetime had been a silversmith in 

 Guernsey, and worked in connection with some firm in Flan- 

 ders, for among his belongings were two Flemish armorial 

 rings [" deux bagues scaillees venus de fiandres], half a dozen 

 silver goblets, " que l'argentier avoient estymees en fiandres 

 rabatus vingt onches d'argent " ; and also a large quantity of 

 flemish iron — " fer de fiandres " — was also mentioned as being 

 destined for use at Morlaix. 



We next come to the plate mentioned in the Will of 

 Nicolas Careye, Jurat, dated 20th July, 1577. He was the 

 son of Nicolas Careye, Jurat of the Royal Court from 1515 

 to 1535, and of Catherine Perrin his wife, sister of the 

 Domenic Perrin who became Seigneur of Rosel Manor in 

 Jersey through his marriage with Catherine, daughter and 

 heiress of Renaud Lempriere. This Nicolas Careye's first 

 wife was Collette Martin, daughter of John Martin, Jurat, 

 and by his Will, after leaving £50 tournois to the repair of 

 the Town Church and the " augmentation de l'horloge," he 

 leaves to his godson Collas Careye (afterwards Seigneur of 

 Blanchelande) " Mon grand tasse ou le nom de John Martin 

 est au fond." Item "A mon filleul Collas de Beau voir" (son 

 of his daughter Collette who had married Guillaume de 

 Beauvoir in 1570) " Ma platte tasse ou le portrait de St. 

 Jacques est au fond " ; to Collas de Beauvoir's brother 

 Samuel who was also his godson, and who subsequently mar- 

 ried Elizabeth de Carteret, daughter of the Seigneur of 

 St. Onen, " la tasse ou mon nom Nicolas Careye est au 

 fond." On the 28th of July, 1578, this Nicolas Careye's 

 two younger sons, Pierre and Jean, were ordered by the 

 Royal Court to deliver to thpir elder half-brother Nicolas yet 

 another " tasse d'argent " which had been given to him by his 

 uncle Sire Pierre Careye, who was a Roman Catholic priest, 

 and ordained Rector of St. Saviour's parish in March, 1518, 

 and therefore this " tasse " must have been of very early date. 



