182 EARLY CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. 



In 1180 Gilbert de la Hougue was still fermor of the 

 vicomte of Guernsey, and for some time at least during the 

 previous } r ear Robert de Haverlant, who we have seen wit- 

 nessing- Peter du Vivier's charter in 1179, had acted as his 

 deputy, for it is he who accounts for the remainder of the lines 

 from the old pleas, and who also pays a portion of the large 

 fine of 40 livres imposed on him personally for having been 

 present and assisting in compounding a felony of maiming. A 

 felony which the Tres Ancien Coutumier a) tells us was reserved 

 to the King's judgment, i.e., the Itinerant Justices. 



The Great Rolls tell us nothing of the administration of 

 the other islands, but from other sources we know that Herm 

 belonged to the abbey of Notre Dame du Voeu, Cherbourg,* 21 

 and Jethou (3) to Mont Saint Michel. Whether they were 

 under the jurisdiction of the Vicomte of Guernsey, or, whether 

 these abbeys possessed full jurisdiction over their tenants at 

 this time, it is impossible to say. 



Alderney and Sark were undoubtedly separate units, each 

 under their own overlords. Alderney belonged to the 

 L'Ingenieurs, one of whom, William L'Ingenieur, Lord of 

 Alderney, had given land there to the abbey of Cherbourg by 

 a charter dated 1122, and later one half of the island was in 

 the possession of the Chapter of the Cathedral of Coutances. 

 William L'Ingenieur's descendants, Peter and Mayn L'Inge- 

 nieur (Ingenator), sold, in 1238, to Henry III. all their rights 

 in 10 livres sterling of land in Alderney wdiich had belonged 

 to their father, another William L'Ingenieur, for the sum of 

 £10 sterling, and so the island passed to the Crown.^' There 



Rogerus Godel reddit conrpotum de xxvj sol. et iiij den. de exitu 



terre Ricardi Normanni et Pagani suspensorum Ricardus 



Normant debet xxx sol. pro habenda recordia duelli. Ricardus Burnulf 



reddit compotum de nova firma de ministerii de Crapout Doit in 



eadem Insula Idem reddit compotum de xx. lib. quia fecit concor- 



diam de juditio f erri sine assensu Justiciariorum 



Gislebertus de Hoga reddit compotum de nova firma de ministerii 



de Gorroic Idem reddit compotum de vij. lib: quia interfuit con- 



cordie de meishaimato Idem reddit compotum de cc. lib. et xl. 



lib. de firma pro Insula de Guernerrui Idem reddit compotum 



per Robertum de Haverlant de xxxvij. lib. et xix sol. et vj. den. de 



remanente veterum misericordiarum de eadem Insula Robertus 



de Haverlant reddit compotum de xl. lib. quia interfuit concordie de 

 mehaimo 



(1) Tardif. Tres Ancien Coutumier, xxxix, and bis. lxx. 



(2) Assize Rolls. 1309, Soc. Jersiaise. p. 16-17. Charter of Henry II. giving the 

 island of Herm to the abbey of Cherbourg, " with all the liberties and free customs 

 which the other religious houses of Normandy have." As the Abbot of Cherbourg 

 had the right of " high justice " over his tenants in Normandy he probably exercised 

 the same right in Herm in the 12th century. 



(3) Ibid, pp. 4445. See Cal. Doc. in France, p. 252, charter of Restald, ship- 

 master of Duke Robert, giving Jethou to Mont Saint Michel. 



(4) Cal. Charter Rolls, Vol. I., p. 237, 23. H. III., m. 7, 19th Nov. 1238. 



