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P. 277. " ¡— Société Jersiaise, Cartulaire, p. 238. 10. C. Le Qnesn«, A Constitutional History of Jersey, London 1856. J. Havet, Les Cours Royales des lies Normandes, Paris 1878, reprinted from Bibliothèque de L'Ecole des Chartes, tomes XXXVIII, XXXIX ; and Série Chronologique des Gardiens et Seigneurs des lies Normandes, Paris 1876, reprinted from. Bibliothèque de L'Ecole des Chartes, XXXVII. I 200 Feudal Empires: Norman and Plan tagenet 11. The following account of the administration and customs of Guernsey is based upon a Targe number of documents in addition to the works cited above.
Peter Port. In this we were, so I believe, following the orthodox doctrine of to-day, which is that municipal origins in medieval Europe can__only be explained by reference to economic factors. Secure in this belief we sought and found traces of the town, a " sort of borough", which was coming to life in St. Peter Port. We found that it had become a centre of administra- I 192 Feudal Empires: Norman and Plantagenet tion, that it had a port of some repute and a market, that there was considerable evidence of the concentration of population there, with possible traces of burgage tenure, and that the king had ordered the islanders to build a wall round it.
97 On August 4 following, a second letter was issued which recited the first order and expressed official astonishment that it had not been obeyed. The excuse which had been put forward was that this levy was in the nature of a tallage, from which the Islanders were exempt by reason of the " aid-le-roy " which they paid. The letter reminded them, however, of the disaster which might fall upon them by reason of their neglect; and also that although they might be privileged in the matter of tallage, they must give attention to their defence, especially as the proposed levy could not justly be regarded as a tallage since they, not the king, were to profit by it.