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lived in Jersey, and de Appelby in Guernsey, so, as might be 

 expected, friction soon occurred. Then, to further complicate 

 the situation, the king ordered de Appelby not to pay 

 Edmund Rose any money for the midsummer quarter 

 until he received further orders from the Council. This 

 was the beginning of difficulties between Rose and the 

 Receiver. As may be imagined Rose was furious, as he was 

 unable to pay his followers, the garrison of Mont Orgueil 

 Castle. At last, five weeks after midsummer, Thomas de 

 Appelby sent his deputy over to Jersey to pay him one half 

 of the revenue of that island. This order the deputy carried 

 out, but the next day he was arrested in the Governor's 

 presence and imprisoned in the castle till Michaelmas 

 following, when he only obtained his release by paying a 

 ransom of over 600 francs. 



Shortly afterwards Thomas de Appelby received orders 

 from the Council to go immediately in person to Jersey to 

 examine into the number of followers and soldiers kept by 

 Edmund Rose, and to pay him reasonable wages for them. 

 The worthy Thomas tells us that " il se douta grauntment de 

 aprocher devers le dit Esmond a cause de graunt force de ses 

 gentz et lours menaces," so for his protection he took with him 

 the bailiff and jurats of Jersey. When they arrived in the 

 presence of Edmund Rose, Thomas de Appelby demanded 

 wdiether he intended to obey the orders of the Council and 

 order a muster of his men, for whom he was claiming pay, 

 or not. To this the Governor replied that he would take 

 counsel and advice on the point and would give him his reply 

 in two or three days. De Appelby and the bailiff and jurats 

 then retired, but they had hardly reached half a bow's shot 

 length from the castle gate, when Nicholas Lowier, a personal 

 servant of the Governor, attacked the Receiver, and stabbed 

 him in the neck with a dagger, whilst the men on the walls 

 of the castle shouted for joy at the discomforture of the un- 

 fortunate de Appelby. We may imagine that after this outrage 

 the Receiver and his companions returned to St. Helier's 

 in great haste. The Receiver tells us nothing of the 

 Governor's reply, so it seems evident that he returned to 

 Guernsey without waiting for it. 



Edmund Rose, finding that he could get no money out of 

 de Appleby, proceeded to seize a quantity of canvas, worth 

 between three to four hundred francs, belonging to some 

 Jersey merchants, who had asked his permission to ship it to 

 St. Malo, pretending that it was forfeited to the king. Later 

 Thomas de Appelby sent his deputy to Jersey on his own 



