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noticed, the date of Norres 1 letter is uncertain, but it must 

 have been written either on the last day of February, 1477, or 

 of the year previous. Another point of interest is the 

 sale of wine, gunpowder, &c, to Edward Courtney, lieutenant 

 of William Courtney, his brother, who from the context 

 seems to have succeeded Norres as Captain or Governor, for 

 he says that " I understande the Captain hathe taken this 

 mone of thaym yat they asenet to pay me by obligacion wherefor 

 I wyll avise the tenants that sholde a payde me to take arest 

 of the gret farmes at ester tyll he have paide thayme agayne 

 that mone for be God I wyll be paide ones & the lawyll." 

 William de Courtney was appointed Captain of Guernsey by 

 Letters Patent of 4th November, 1477, nine months at least 

 later than the date of this letter. If as seems probable he is 

 the Captain referred to by Norres, then this appointment by 

 the king must have been a confirmation of an existing one 

 made by someone else, possibly by " my lorde at Warwick " 

 of the letter who we may eventually find to have been the 

 Duke of Clarence. 



VI. 



31 ion* ££\xlx qui ces presentes lettres verront ou orront 

 Pierres de Beauvoir baillif de nostre Souverain Seigneur le roy 

 Dengleterre en lisle de Guernesey salut en dieu Savoir faesons 

 que par devant nous en la ville de Saint Pierre Port en la dicte 

 isle le XV jour du moes de fevrier Ian de grace mil CCCCLXXVII 

 et en presence de Thomas Blondel Johan Cartier Nicholas de 

 Garis Thomas de Havellant et Johan Martin jures de la court 

 de nostre dit Seigneur le roy en la dicte isle soe comparut 

 personnellement cest a savoir Nicholas Henry fils James" de la 

 ville de Saint Pierre Port lequell nous pretendit et demonstra 

 une lettre missive de par James Nores nagueres capitaine de 

 cest isle de Guernesey an dit Nicholas Henry escripte en papier 

 de propre main du dit James Nores si comme Johan Blondel 

 attorney du dit James Nores le confessa par devant nous et 

 rattifia tout le contenu en icelle et le tint pour bon dont la tenor 

 sensuit et est teille. — Pyght worshypfull sir, I commande me 

 to you thonkyng you as hartely as I con for the gret kyndnes 

 that I have fonde with you syth that ye come into Englonde 

 and in a speciall when ye were at Warwicke with my lorde 

 gone grace, I underestonde by youre writynge what was youre 



* Note.— Nicholas Henry was King's Procureur in 1475, and had previously 

 acted as Receiver of the Lordship i.f the Isles in Guernsey. In a deed of 14th 

 December, 1475, he is styled— " procureur et nadgueres receveur pour la seigneurie 

 en la ditte isle de Guernesey."— He was grandson of Nicholas Henry who founded 

 in 1395 the chapel of Notre Dame de la Perelle (now called Sainte Apolline) on his 

 manor of La Perelle, with the permission of Richard II. and that of the Abbot of 

 Mont Saint Michel. 



