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Beuval, St. Peter s-in-the- Wood ; Bruniaux, St. Martin's ; 

 Bruniaux de Nermont, St. George and Le Canelly, but only 

 the first three were dependencies of Fief du Comte, the 

 remainder being distinct fiefs. 



Sausmarez Manor, St. Martin's. 

 The ancient name of this manor was " le fief de Jer- 

 bourg." From a letter which has very recently come to light 

 in the Patent Rolls of 1230, it seems to have belonged in the 

 twelfth century to the great Norman family of de Barneville. 

 At the commencement of the following century it had 

 descended to an heiress, Nicholaa de Barneville, wife of 

 Maurice de Lucy, probably a relative of Geoffrey de Lucy, 

 Warden of the "isles, 1206-7 and 1224-26. Maurice was 

 killed during an invasion of Guernsey in the reign of John, 

 and his estates fell to the Crown during the minority of his 

 heir. On the 27th January, 1230, * the king restores to 

 Jordan de Lucy (in another letter called de Barneville) f son 

 of Maurice de Lucy, his father's and mother's lands of 

 Jerbourg (Gereburg). How it passed into the possession of 

 the de Sausmarez is not known, possibly by marriage with a 

 de Barneville heiress. Anyway, in a King's Writ of the 

 year 1319, relative to proceedings of Placita de quo Waranto 

 concerning Matthew de Sausmarez' rights on his fief of 

 Jerbourg, it is stated that his father Matthew, and grandfather 

 Nicholas, had enjoyed the manor and all its privileges before 

 him {. 



The manor was held, as already stated, by grand serjeantry 

 of acting as the third butler to the king when he should visit 

 the island, also by homage, relief, and suit of court at the 

 three Chief Pleas. 



In the sixteenth century Sausmarez Manor passed to the 

 Andros family by marriage in 1542 of Judith, daughter and 

 heiress of Thomas de Sausmarez, with John Andros, of Nor- 

 thamptonshire, who came to Guernsey with the Governor, Sir 

 Peter Mentis. About the middle of the eighteenth century Mr. 

 Charles Andros sold it to Mr. John de Sausmarez, a descendant 

 of a junior branch of its former owners. 



La Kue Frairie, St. Andrew's. 

 The name of this manor is a corruption of La Refrerie 

 which belonged in the 13th and 14th centuries to the Abbey 

 of La Croix Saint Leufroy, near Evreux. Through some 



* Cal : Pat: Rolls, U Henry III., p. 282. 

 t Cal : Pat : Rolls, 15 Henry III., p. 514. 

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