356 LE eOLUMlJl lOK, T()UTE\'AL. 



about six centuries. It stands on the fief Janin Bernard 

 which we learn from an old document of 1463 Avas originally 

 a part (with the fiefs of liobert de Vic, John du Gaillard, 

 Thomas Blondel, Cantereine, and Guillot Justice) of the 

 fief of " Sire Henry Le Canclly Chevalier," one of the 

 most important in the island in the 13th century, its lands 

 extending over a considerable portion of the parishes of 

 Torteval, St. Peter's-in-the-Wood and St. Saviour's. This 

 fief derived its name fi-om a very ancient family Avho 

 held it in the 13th century and probably earlier. In the 

 Norman Rolls of the 2nd John, in the year 1200, a William 

 Le Canelly pays the king 60 livres Angevin, that a suit 

 he had against Matilda de Langetot and her son Henry, 

 concerning lands at " Sumeresville," in Guernsey, might 

 be tried before the " Curia Regis." A few years later, 

 in 1227, we find the king ordering the Warden of the Isles, 

 William de St. John, to give Henry Le Canelly possession of 

 the lands in Guernsey formerly belonging to his father, 

 William Le Canelly, lately deceased. He was probably the 

 same man as Sir Henry Le Canelly, one of the Jurats at the 

 assizes held in Guernsey in 1254, who, according to the above 

 mentioned document of 1463, seems to have been the last of 

 his name to hold the entire manor. He was succeeded by two 

 heiresses, probably his daughters, the elder of whom married 

 Thomas de Vic, and the younger named Guillemotte, Drouet 

 de St. Martin, Seigneur of Trinity, Jersey, who held the 

 manor in 1274. In 1309 their heirs, namely Avice de Vic, and 

 Henry de St. Martin and his brothers, the sons of Drouet, 

 were summoned at the assizes to show by what right they 

 claimed certain aids from their tenants in the parishes of St. 

 Peter's-in-the-Wood, Torteval and St. Saviour's, also the right 

 of court, and of chase, which belonged to the king. They 

 replied that the inheritance of Le Canelly was divided between 

 Avice and Henry, and that their ancestors had enjoyed these 

 privileges from time immemorial. Previous to 1320, the date 

 of the next assizes, the de St. Martin's portion of the manor 

 had passed by some family arrangement to Symon de St. 

 Martin, Henry's younger brother, who was called upon to 

 answer to a very similar inquiry to that above mentioned. It 

 is necessary to trace the pedigree of this family thus far as it 

 gives the clue to the following entry in the accounts of John 

 des Roches, Warden of the Isles, from 1328 to 1330, which is 

 the first evidence of the existence of our dove-cote. 



" ii*arochia de Torteval " 

 " Item et tient Symon de Seynt Martin un coulumbier levey." 



