JERBOURG AJSTD ITS FORTIFICATIONS. 259 



Miss Carey adds : " These extracts show that though 

 the De Saumarez held Jerbourg before 1300, the Castle 

 does not seem to have been built before 1331, all the 

 witnesses, 12 men of St. Martin's and 12 jurats witnessing, 

 which they would not have done had there been no castle." 



On this I have to point out that the document expressly 

 states that " He had fortified it with trenches and walls 

 after the manner <f a castle, and this is exactly what we 

 find by examining the locality, ?'.<?., a great bank and trench 

 extending across the isthmus ; no actual castle with keep, 

 towers, gates, &c, is even suggested. There had been no time 

 in the interval to have allowed such a building to be erected. 



Then again, notice "a place called the castle of Jerbourg," 

 not an actual castle, but something which, being in the nature 

 of a defensible position, might be spoken of as a castle. 



Mr. De Guerin supplies me with an extract from 

 Bulletin 16 (1891) of the Societe Jersiaise : "Documents 

 relatifs aux attaques sur les isles de la Manche," which 

 shows that payments were made to Thomas de Lyne- 

 don, Connetable et 12 arbaletriers (forming, apparently, the 

 garrison of the Chateau de Jerbourg in 1337), and in the 

 year 1338 payments are repeated to the same. At the same 

 period Castle Cornet had a garrison consisting of Messire 

 Simon de Goldingham, his son and 6 men-at-arms and fifty 

 archers. 



Mr. T. De Gruerin sends me from the Close Rolls, 

 Edward III.'s reign, 1342, similar information to that 

 extracted by Miss E. Carey from MSS. in possession of 

 Gasparcl Le Marchant, Esq., of Haye-de-Puits, copied by 

 Eleazer Le Marchant in 1704, as follows: " Le Roy a 

 Thomas de Hampton, Gouverneur de nos isles, comme 

 aussi voit que nous aurions fait somptueusement reparer 

 (ainsi que nous l'a fait entendre) un certain chateau appelle 

 Gerebrok pour la sauvegarde de nos fideles sujets .... nous 

 vous commandons de faire assigner a chacun d'iceux tant 

 aux plus grands qu'aux plus petits, certains departements 

 dans le dit chateau ayant egard a la qualite des personnes 

 et a la quantite de leurs biens, et de les obliger de le defendre 

 et de fournir les provisions chacun dans son departement 

 lorsqu'il y aura apparence de guerre." 



On this document Mr. Le Marchant makes these obser- 

 vations : " Tout le contour de Fordre me semble tres-clair, 

 excepte ces deux mots ' Le Chateau de Gerbourk ' (the 

 chateau de Gerbourg) cependant il ne faut s'attacher trop 

 rigoureusement a la lettre, mais entendre le terrain contenu 



