NOTES ON SOME OLD DOCUMENTS. 



BY LT.-COL. T. W. M. DE GUERIN. 



The following documents form part of a collection of 

 manuscripts formerly belonging to Sir Edgar MacCulloch, 

 our late esteemed Bailiff, who left them at his death to the 

 Royal Court. Sir Edgar MacCulloch was a devoted student 

 of the history of our Island and its institutions, and in the 

 course of his researches he collected a large number of 

 original manuscripts, dating from the 14th century onwards, 

 and also copied numerous Charters, Royal Letters, and other 

 historical documents which are to be found at the Record 

 Office, London, and in other public and private collections. 

 On the death of the late Mr. William Metivier he became 

 possessed of all the manuscripts belonging to Mr. John 

 Metivier and his brother Mr. George Metivier, including 

 the original manuscript of the latter's " Dictionnaire Franco- 

 Normand." 



The collection contains many interesting original manu- 

 scripts including a large number of old Guernsey " Lettres 

 sous sceau"; several " Livres de Perchage " of various 

 Guernsey fiefs ; an interesting note book, written by George 

 Fashion, Seigneur d'Anneville, early in the 1 7th century ; 

 a contemporary account of de Rullecourt's attack on Jersey, 

 1781 ; a valuable index to the Baptismal Registers of 

 St. Peter-Port ; and number of bundles of original letters, 

 from the Andros collection, written by Sir Henry de Vic, 

 Dean de Sausmarez, Amice de Carteret and other prominent 

 Guernseymen, in the 17th and early 18th centuries. The 

 copies of original documents include those of the Girard 

 and Le Roy manuscripts ; letters of Governors and other 

 Guernsey officials from 1609 to 1683 ; an interesting account 

 of Elizabeth College ; Lord Hatton's " Remarks on the 

 Constitution of Guernsey," temp. Charles II. ; copies of 

 Royal Letters and Charters referring to the Channel Islands 

 in Close, Patent and Gascon Rolls at Record Office ; an 

 important critical reconstruction of the text of the Extente of 



