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Richemont, in the month of June following, when the 

 blockade was raised, or on some subsequent occasion during 

 the war with France, he was taken prisoner and had to sell 

 some of his ' rentes ' in Jersey to pay his ransom. 



Thomas de la Court was the son of Thomas de la Court, 

 Bailiff of Guernsey, by his wife, Jennette de Saint Martin. 

 He was Seigneur of Trinity Manor, Jersey, which had been 

 sold to his father by his uncle Thomas de Saint Martin, who 

 had been taken prisoner, with his son, during the war with 

 France, and was compelled to sell his estates to pay his 

 ransom. Thomas de la Court took a prominent part in the 

 siege of Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, 1461-1468, and was 

 rewarded by the Earl of Warwick, who gave him, on the 21st 

 March, 1464/5, all the escheated Jersey manors belonging to 

 his cousins John, Guillaume, Raulin, and eJames de Saint 

 Martin, who had adhered to the French on the capture of 

 Jersey by de Breze. Later, in 1468, he Avas appointed 

 Bailiff of Guernsey. He was probably succeeded in his post 

 as lieutenant by another Jerseyman, Geoffrey Walsh, Seigneur 

 of Handois, who held that office in 1468, and was afterwards 

 killed at the battle of Barnet in 1471, fighting under the 

 banner of the Earl of Warwick, the Lord of the Isles. 

 Thomas de la Court seems to have died in 1470, when he was 

 succeeded as bailiff by Pierre de Beauvoir. The family of 

 de la Court, one of the most ancient and honourable in the 

 island, has been extinct since the end of the 16th century, but 

 their memory is still preserved by the well-known charity, 

 founded by Monsieur Jean de la Cour, Jurat of the Royal 

 Court, the last of his race, who bequeathed certain houses and 

 rentes to form a fund to be administered by the Bailiff and 

 Jurats for the relief of the poor and also to assist the 

 education of poor scholars. 



V. 



Richard Neville conte de Warewyk et Salisbury Seigneur 

 de Bergeveny des Isles de Guernesey Jersey et des autres Isles 

 a Icelles adjoingnans Grant Chambellan d'Angleterre Capitaine 

 de Calais et lieutenant des marches denviron A tous ceulx qui 

 ces presentes verront ou orront salut : Savoir faisons que nous 

 confians a plain es sens loyaute et bonne prudence de nostre tres 

 cher et bien-aime serviteur Thomas de la Court et aussi pour 

 les bons et agreables services qu'il nous a fais en temps passe et 

 esperons que face en temps advenyr icellui Thomas avons fait 

 ordonne constitue et estably, faisons orclonnons constituons et 

 establissons par ces presentes nostre lieutenant de nostre dicte 

 Isle de Guernesey et de nostre chastel Cornet : A avoir tenir et 



