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sequestrated liberties. Further, these officers were heavily 

 fined for their misdeeds, and the most notorious of them, 

 Gaultier de la Salle, was, immediately after the assizes, 

 tried for the murder of Ranulph Gautier, who he and his 

 accomplices had tortured to death in Castle Cornet, found 

 guilty and hanged. 



The triumph of the islanders was complete. Unfor- 

 tunately they were not content, they wanted more, nothing 

 less than the indictment of Otho de Grandison and his 

 dismissal from the governorship of the Isles. The justices 

 seem to have demurred, and the question was submitted 

 to Parliament. Thomas d'Estefield, sent as attorney of the 

 people of Guernsey to Parliament, was set upon, beaten and 

 illtreated by the followers of Otho, in the streets of London, 

 and dared not proceed ; so the islanders petitioned the king, 

 praying for remedy, and requesting that " Sir Otho may 

 be removed from the said islands as one who has forfeited all 

 his estates for the wrongs of which he is attainted. "* Otho de 

 Grandison, on his side, represented to the King that the royal 

 revenue of the islands Avas seriously affected by the decisions 

 of the justices, who had exceeded their mandate to the injury 

 of the crown, and according to the islanders' version he paid 

 large sums of money to obtain his ends.f The king ordered 

 the suspension of all the judgments of these assizes on the 

 plea that the " commissioners had exceeded the bounds of 

 their commission to the king's disherison and prejudice of the 

 said Otto. J He also ordered that all lands, tenements, 

 liberties and rents of any of the islanders that had been 

 delivered to them in accordance with these judgments, should 

 be again taken into the king's hands. There was a general 

 refusal to obey, and we read of force having been used against 

 the Governor's officers who attempted to execute the order. § 

 On the 29th July, 1323,H the king appointed Sir Henry 

 Spigurnel, Henry de Cliff', John de Held and William de 

 Denum, as justices, to examine and correct the errors in the 

 judgments of the previous assizes. They reversed all the 

 judgments of their predecessors, but on the question of our 

 privileges they came to no definite decision, and left the 

 matter in abeyance. Again there was refusal on the part of 

 the islanders to give up their lands in accordance with these 

 judgments, and we hear of Otho de Grandison, who had come 



* Ancient Petitions, p. 31-32. No. 12834. 

 t Ancient Petitions, p. 61. No. 2618. 

 t Calendar of Patent Rolls, p. 9. 15 Edw. II., Part I., m. 22. 30 July, 1321. 

 § Cal. Pat. Rolls, 16 Edw. II., p. 235, Feb. 2, 1323. 

 % Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 137, 17 Edw. II, p. 1, m. 19. 



