in Council proceedings, the petition. 81 However, it became customary to precede 
the actual presentation of the petition with an entry of the appeal in the 
register of Council causes. 82 This served as evidence of the prosecution of the 
appeal within the time limited either by conciliar regulation, island custom, 
or bond conditioned upon such prosecution. 83 There is no evidence at this 
time of the later practice that upon entry of an appeal a summons automatically 
issued for the appearance of the respondent before the Council. 84 But the 
Council did utilize ad hoc methods to cause respondents to appear. 85 It was 
or within fifteen days after notice thereof 
(supra, pp. 13-14). No. such regulation is contained 
in the 1572 Jersey regulations (supra, p. 
13), but there is some later evidence that the 
Guernsey order was regarded as extending the 
ten-day period of the civil law to fifteen days in 
Jersey also; see Poingdestre, op. cit., 233. The 
said Guernsey regulations also provided that 
appellants give security to prosecute and to 
answer costs in case of affirmance, according to 
ancient island customs (supra, p. 14). The 
earlier Jersey regulations contained no such 
provision (supra, p. 13). 
81 We have seen no copies of contemporary 
petitions of appeal. From oblique references in 
the Council registers and from later practice it 
is not illogical to assume that such petitions 
contained a recital of the proceedings below, a 
statement of an appeal taken therefrom, and a 
prayer that the appeal be heard. 
82 The first instance of such entry appears on 
January 20, 1587/8, when John Carteret "resorted 
to the Clarke of the Counsell and desired 
his said appeale might be recorded, to thend it 
might appeare the same was by him begonne 
to be prosecuted before their Lordships within 
the tyme prescribed, which was for his indemnitie 
in diat behalf accordingly entered into die 
Register of Counsell" (15 APC, Dom., 335). 
For other instances see 17 ibid., 320; 23 ibid., 
364-65; 24 ibid., 28; 25 ibid., 14, 131; 31 
ibid., 175, 276; 32 ibid., 411. It was not necessary 
to await a Council meeting to enter an 
appeal; entry could be made with the clerks 
who were in regular attendance at the Council 
Chamber; see 10 ibid., xxix; ir ibid., vii; 12 
ibid., vii. 
83 By the 1572 Order in Council Jersey appeals 
were to "be prosecuted" within three mondis 
after judgment given (supra, p. 13). "Prosecuted" 
as employed here merely meant the 
entering of the appeal with the appellate body 
(Poingdestre, op. cit., 233). As we have seen 
there was no comparable conciliar regulation 
for Guernsey (supra, pp. 13—14), although it 
has been assumed that the 1572 regulation affected 
Guernsey (Poingdestre, op. cit., 233). 
But island custom might still play a procedural 
part, for in Guille v. Herrod (23 APC, Dom., 
364) from Jersey, it was stated that the appeal 
should have been entered by island custom 
within four months after it was granted. This 
same appeal affords an example of conciliar extension 
of the time limited to prosecute an appeal 
for "juste cause of lett or impediment," 
viz., plague (ibid). The Jersey 1572 order required 
as a condition of appeal a copy of the 
sentence and the whole process under seal 
(supra, p. 13). The 1580 Guernsey regulations 
required readiness to produce a copy under seal 
of all the acts and proceedings in the cause 
(supra, p. 14). 
84 During the latter part of the seventeenth 
century and in the eighteenth century the 
summons was usually copied into the Privy 
Council register immediately following the entry 
of die appeal. 
85 Letters might be dispatched by the Privy 
Council to island officials to send over respondents 
to answer an appeal (Rowse v. Gower, 19 
APC, Dom., 322; 21 ibid., 298). Such respondent 
might have his appearance entered in the 
Privy Council register (Regina v. Beauvoir, 21 
ibid., 54). Upon petition of appellant the Privy 
Council might order the bailiff and jurats to 
take bonds of the respondent to appear personally 
before the Council by a specified date. 
In Gosselin v. Blundell, this was certified by 
the Solicitor General to be "according to ordinarie 
course" (29 ibid., 570). See also Drake v. 
Macham (26 APC, Dom., 350) where upon 
appellant giving security in England to prosecute 
the appeal and pay costs to respondents if 
wrongly appealed, the Royal Court was ordered 
to take bonds of the respondents to make their 
appearance by die date appellant was bound to 
prosecute the appeal.