6S ENGLISH GARKIS(JX OF GUERNSEY. 



and above the amount of his /<?r/?2, or the annual sum paid by 

 him to the Treasury. For this reason Ave only find reference 

 to them in Koyal Letters in time of Avar, or of preparation for 

 AA^ar, Avhen they Avere largely increased and })aid by the Crown. 

 Thus in the reign of Henry III., on the outbreak of Avar Avith 

 France, there is an order in the Close Rolls dated the 22nd 

 October, 1224, to deliver from the Treasury to Geoffrey de 

 Lucy, the Warden of the Isles, the sum of " four hundred 

 marks for the pay of eight knights, each of Avhom Avas to 

 receive two shillings per day, also for 35 horsemen, each of 

 whom Avas to receive one shilling per day, and for 6U foot 

 soldiers, each of whom was to receive 7^d. per day, for tAvice 

 forty days, who were sent to the islands of Jersey and 

 Guernsey and the other islands Avith the said Geoffrey de 

 Lucy, by our orders for the defence of those islands."* 



This Avas a period of great military activity in our islands, 

 and frequent mention is made in the Close and Patent Rolls 

 from 1224 to 1228, to sums of money being sent AvhercAvith to 

 pay the men in garrison ; to arms and stores sent for th^ir 

 defence and maintenance, also to timber and other materials 

 required for the improvement of our defences. From the 

 latter it is evident that considerable additions Avere being 

 made at this time to our castles ; and this is confirmed by a 

 letter of Henry III., in the Close Rolls dated the 12th July, 

 1227, addressed to the Knights of Guernsey and Jersey, and 

 Rololph Payn, ordering them " to carefully examine the 

 amount expended by Richard de Gray on the repairs and 

 improvements of the fortresses of the said Isles, for the time 

 he was keeper thereof, and to let the king knoAV the amount 

 of these costs by Letters Patent."t 



In the Close Rolls of 2nd January, 1243, | we again find 

 reference to the garrison in the Isles, the king ordering the 

 Warden, Drew de Barentin, to pay from the monies of the 

 " Impost " of the islands, a reasonable Avage '' to the knights 

 and sergeants Avho are in the fortresses of the islands, as Avell 

 as to the sailors Avho are in the galleys and other vessels, and 

 to take measures to annoy to the utmost the King's enemies, 

 having always to account to him for the spoil already taken, 

 or which shall be taken from the said enemies, and the king 

 will remit him the sum expended for such payments, as it shall 

 happen when the king knoAvs it." 



From this date to the beginning of the reign of Edward 

 III. very little information has so far come to light concerning 



* Le Quesne, Const. Hist. Jersey, p. 477. Rot. Litt. Glaus., vol. L, p. 626. 



t Lettres Close, pub, by Soc. Jersiaise, p. 23. 



t Do., p. 41. 



