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his father's pands in Jersey, on account of his father's 

 services at the siege of Mont Orgueil. Harliston's exact 

 position is not clear, as in the Gascon Rolls, 13th January, 

 1477, he is officially appointed Captain and Governor of 

 Jersey " because he had recovered the castle from the king's 

 enemies " — a phrase one might expect to find in an original 

 grant but would hardly look for in an extension of office. 

 As far as Guernsey is concerned we seem to have had no 

 Governor from the time of the death of the Earl of Warwick 

 until 4th November, 1477, when William de Courteney was 

 appointed Captain. 



On this point it must be noted that George, Duke of 

 Clarence, who had married Isabel, eldest daughter of the 

 Earl of Warwick, was advanced to all the titles and dignities 

 of the said Earl on 25th March, 1472. Further that he 

 was attainted and died in the Tower in the year 1477, 

 when we find the first Letters Patent appointing separate 

 Governors for both Guernsey and Jersey. Did he also 

 hold the lordship of the Isles ? This is a point awaiting 

 solution. 



In 1487 we get the last glimpse of Lady Anne de 

 Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick and Lady of the Isles. 

 The astute Henry VII. declaring that it was " abhorrent to 

 God and man that children should supplant their parents 

 and deprive them of their inheritance," brought the aged 

 Countess from the convent where she had taken refuge, 

 after many vicissitudes subsequent to her husband's death, 

 and with great pomp restored her to possession of all her 

 titles and manors, including the lordship of the Channel 

 Islands. A few days later, on the 3rd December, 1487, 

 she renounced in favour of the king all her inheritance 

 including " the islands and lordship of J ernesey and Guernesey 

 and the castles and manors of Gurry, Cornet, Serk, Erme, 

 and Aureney, in the islands aforesaid." And so the craftiest 

 of the Tudor monarchs robbed the widowed Countess and 

 her grandson, the last male heir of the White Rose, in a 

 strictly legal manner. 



