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 1921 CHANNEL ISLANDS PETITIONS OF 1305 555 Beaufoy were appointed to hear petitions from Ireland and the Isle of Guernsey (p. 4). The Irish petitions are found on pp. 232-54, but none appear from any of the Channel Islands. It is also noticeable that one of the three questions dealt with in the Placita and not elsewhere in the roll is that relating to the abbey of Mont St. Michel, which ought to be mentioned among these petitions. It does not appear to have been noticed that there is a docu- ment in the Bibliotheque Nationale at Paris which does fill this gap and does deal with the abbey of Mont St. Michel. This is MS. Lat. 9215, Mont St. Michel, no. 7, and was printed in 1878 by M. Julien Havet in his Cours Royales des lies Normandes in the appendix (pp. 197-205). It is headed Peticiones Insularum de Jereseye et Gernereye in parliamento domini regis apud Westmonasterium die dominica proxima post festum sancti Mathie Apostoli, anno regni regis Edwardi filii regis Henrici tricesimo tercio and ends Responsiones facte ad peticiones Hibernie et Insularum Jereseye et Grerneseye exhibitas coram J. de Berewyk, H. de Staunton, Willelmo de Dene, Willelmo de Mortimer et Rogero Beaufou quos rex assignavit ad huiusmodi peticiones recipiendas, &c. This corresponds with the list of auditors given in the roll. 1 It was, therefore, reasonable to suppose that this document was either a transcript of some missing membrane of our Exchequer Parliament Roll 12, or the missing part itself. I accordingly consulted M. Charles Bemont on this subject, and he has most kindly inspected the Paris manuscript on two separate occasions, and has compared it with a photostat copy of a part of the Parliament Roll (the upper portion of m. 12, containing the Irish petitions, which should naturally precede those from the Channel Islands). He has also most kindly enabled me to get a similar copy of the Paris manuscript. On first inspecting the manuscript, M. Bemont considered that it probably was a fragment of the Parliament Roll : and comparison with the photostat strongly confirmed this view. The size and form of the document agree with those of the facsimile : the writing, the spacing, and the marginal marks correspond exactly. There is a hole (apparently for a filing-cord) in the document which corresponds with one in m. 12 of the Parliament Roll. This hole does not occur on the other mem- branes : but, although one would have expected such a schedule to be attached by sewing rather than by filing on a cord, it is possible that the Channel Islands petitions were attached to the Irish ones as a schedule, especially as the Paris manuscript 1 Memoranda, p. cix.