Some confusion exists as to the extent to which conditions regulating appeals 
by way of doleance differed from the ordinary appeal and doleance 
regulations. In most appeals by way of doleance it is noted in the Guernsey 
Royal Court records that the appellant "a consigne au greffe cent livres tournois 
suivant l'ordonnance." 9T Presumably the ordinance intended was that of April 
21, 1623. 98 But mere doleances have the same notation in some cases," although 
in many cases there is no notation of a doleance at all in the Guernsey 
Royal Court records. In other cases security similar to that taken in the case of 
regular appeals was entered into by appellants by way of doleance} 00 This was 
by virtue of the June 27, 1627, Order in Council. 101 Or both security devices 
might be employed in a single cause. 102 A litigant might be denied an appeal 
below both in the common form and by way of doleance 103 so that an appeal 
against the Royal Court, but was judicially 
admitted, engrossed under the hands o£ the 
magistrates, sealed, and entered in the public 
records upon deposit of security for prosecution 
thereof, so essentially it was an appeal 
under another name, wherefore, the Committee 
without violating their constitutions, 
might have awarded as of course a summons 
to bring up the defendant to be heard on the 
merits. The requiring an answer from the 
Royal Court was an indulgence which it 
was submitted had been forfeited by contempt 
in refusing to answer. An appeal and 
summons in the usual form was thereupon 
prayed for, but without success (PC 1/3 
[13]). 
97 Poulett v. Richardson (MS. Jugements, ordonnances, 
et ordres du Conseil [Avril 1685 a 
Vevrier 1716}, 49); Dobree v. Lihou (ibid., 
130); Broyer v. Thomes (ibid., 133); Dobree 
v. Morell (ibid., 55); Le Messurier v. Lihou 
(ibid., 51); Fiott v. Martin (ibid. [Novembre 
1745 a Avril 1757], 2 -3)- 
98 1 Recueil d'ordonnances de la cour royale de 
Vile de Guernesey, 146-47. 
99 In re le Messurier (PC 2/78/20, 31, 81, 184, 
188; MS Jugements, ordonnances et ordres du 
Conseil [Avril 168; a Fevrier 1716] , 61); In re 
de Saumarez (PC 2/83/100, 121, 332, 34°; 
MS Jugements ut supra, 153); In re Naftell (PC 
254, 360-61; MS Jugements ut supra, 
175); In re Priaulx (PC 2/86/154, 159; 
PC 2/87/271, 273; MS Jugements ut supra, 
[Mars 1716 a Decembre 1726], 3-5); In re 
Falla (PC 2/90/233, 236; PC 2/91/63; MS 
Jugements ut supra [Janvier 1726 a Mai 
1736], 3-4)- 
l°°De Beauvoir v. Le Marchant (MS Jugements, 
ordonnances et ordres du Conseil [Mars 
1716 a Decembre 1726], 18). "Mr. Daniel de 
Beauvoir a ete receu et admis a se porter pour 
doleant au roy et aux seigneurs de son tres Honorable 
Conseil de la sentence de la cour en son 
acte de l'onze du courant donee contre lui 
en faveur de Messieur Josue et Eleazar Le 
Marchant et Daniel de Lisle. Et a presente 
pour caution (suivant a l'ordre de sa Majeste 
du vingt et sept de juin 1627) Messieurs 
Abraham le Messurier et Fala lesquels se sont 
obliges et un seul pour le tout que le dit de 
Beauvoir suivra sa doleance dans an et jour 
et qu'il en attendra le jugement et le repondra 
de tous coutages, damages, interets, et depens 
qui pouront ensuivra sans l'obligation de tous 
leurs liens et pareillement le dit de Beauvoir 
a promis indemnier ses dites cautions sans la 
meme obligation." To similar effect, see Carey 
v. de Lisle (ibid. [Avril 168$ a Vevrier 1716], 
42); Dobree v. Falla (ibid. [Mars 1716 a 
Decembre 1726], 28-29). Yet the first and 
last causes were treated by die Council Board 
as doleances; see supra n. 96. Cf. the treatment 
of Le Bier v. Le Messurier (ibid., 39) at the 
Council Board (PC 2/86/443, 447; PC 2/87/ 
231, 235). 
101 APC, Bom., 1627, 370-71. See supra, 
p. 32. 
102 Le Bier v. Le Messurier (MS Jugements, 
ordonnances et ordres du Conseil [Mars 1716 
a Decembre 1726], 39). 
103 See Bowden v. Williams (PC 2/91/307). 
In the Guernsey Royal Court records it is 
stated in a June 9, 1730, entry that Bowden 
"a ete deboute d'appeller a sa Majeste et ses 
seigneurs . . . et sur la proposition du dit 
Bowden de se porter pour doleant a sa dit