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himself into his service and then murdered him in cold blood. 

 Rymer's Foedora, under date of 18 September, 1381, contains 

 an entry recording the gift of one hundred francs to John 

 Lambe and his companions, who had brought the king 

 the joyful news of Yvain's death.* 



It was recently stated by the Rev. Gallienne, in a lecture 

 at the Guille-Alles Library, that the invasion of Guernsey, in 

 1372, by Yvain de Galles never took place, the chief reason 

 brought forward in support of this view being the fact that 

 while Froissart states that Aymon Rose was the captain of 

 the English force in Guernsey, we know from documentary 

 evidence that he never held any official post in our island, but 

 was appointed captain of Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey, on 

 the 25th March, 1372, therefore Froissart must have con- 

 founded the invasion with that of Jersey, in 1373, by du 

 Gueselin, and has made errors in the date, name of the 

 island, &c, &c. 



The invasion of Jersey by du Gueselin has been the 

 subject of an admirable article, by M. Jean Lemoine, in La 

 Revue Historique for 1897. M. Lemoine gives in an appendix 

 copies of Royal letters, extracts from the accounts of the 

 Receivers of the Isles, &c, &c, referring to this invasion. 

 An examination of the extracts from the accounts of Aymon 

 Rose is however fatal to Mr. Gallienne's theory, for they 

 clearly show that Aymon Rose's term of office, as captain of 

 Mont Orgueil Castle, expired on the 3rd June, 1373, when he 

 handed the castle over to William de Asthorp, who had been 

 appointed Governor of the Isles on the 20th April preceding. 

 On the 6th July he was appointed to the command of a 

 London barge in the king's service for four months and 

 consequently at the time of du Gueselin's invasion of Jersey, 

 which M. Lemoine proves to have taken place between the 

 12th July and the 16th August of the same year, he was not 

 in Jersey, but only returned there with the fleet of Philip de 

 Courtenay, Admiral of the Fleet towards the West, who on 

 the 16th August of that year was ordered by the king to 

 proceed immediately to the relief of Jersey, which had been 

 invaded by the king's enemies. Therefore for Mr. Gallienne's 

 view to be correct Froissart must have made errors not only 

 in the names of the commanders of both the English and 

 French forces, but in the date, the name of the island and the 

 name of the castle beseiged ! 



* Clarke's Guernsey Magazine. October— December, 1879. 

 The Invasion of Guernsey by Yvain de Galles, in 1372, by Sir Edgar 

 MacCulloch. 



