LE COLOMI'.TET?, TORTEVAL. 357 



This proves that a dovecote, probably the one whose 

 ruins are still to be seen, was already in existence. Further 

 we have again reference to it in a charter, or deed of division, 

 of oth Jidy, 1367, now in the (Ireffe of the Royal Court, 

 Avhereby Richard de St. Martin, having given his two 

 daughters, Alinor and A vice, 10 quarters of wheat rent each 

 as their portion on their marriages respectively with John 

 Bernard and Nicholas de Sausmarez, assigns to them the 

 whole of his property in (jruernsey, namely, his share of the 

 manor of Le Canelly. To John Bernard and Alinor were 

 given the seigneurie, court and privileges of the manor, and 

 among other rentes one dne on " Je clos da Cohmbiery It is 

 without doubt fiom this John Bernard that the portion of the 

 fief now known as " le fieu Janin Besnard " OAves its name. 



In another old deed, formerly in the possession of Mr. Le 

 Marchant, of La Haye du Piiits, there is mention of the 

 lord of the manor's right of way to his dove-cote in 1457. 

 Again, another document of the 28th June, 1530, mentions 

 " le courtil du colombier " at Torteval, " le dit colombier seant 

 dedans." A portion of the said field had been sold by 

 Laurence Careye, of St. Martin's, to a Collas Le Mesurier, 

 son of Richard, of St. Peter's-in-the-Wood, and at the above 

 date Katheryne Careye, Laurence's daughter, sued Le 

 Mesurier for arrears of one quarter and two denerels of wheat 

 rente due on the said field. 



It is not necessary to add much more. Le Colombier and 

 le fief Janin Bernard were in the possession of the Le 

 Marchants, of I^a Haye du Puits, from the middle of the 

 16th to the 18th century, but were eventually sold and passed 

 through the hands of various owners on to the present day. 



The old ruins should, if possible, be preserved as they 

 are the remains of one of the oldest buildings in the Island 

 and are a monument of a loug past age, of long forgotten 

 feudal rights and customs. 



