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 | | Edited by N Thomas Helier de Carteret, the Seigneur of St Ouen, was a shrewd man. Having obtained the commission’s consent in principle, he went to Sark, and ploughing a small patch of land, planted wheat, whose subsequent crop was to determine whether he would take up the concession granted him. |
| | Sir Charles de Carteret, who had been born in 1679, and baptized at St Margarets, Westminster, on 4th June of that year, with the Duke of Monmouth and King Charles II as his sponsors, had the strange experience of being knighted at the age of eight, by his Royal Godfather, on 25th October, 1687. |
| | Jean de Carteret, the second de Carteret in whom we are interested, was the son of Edward, the Bailiff of Sark. |
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