Note 278 — Chapter XVIII · Guernsey Songs and Ballads.
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Le Lorreur—surnom d’une famille câtelaine dont les traces se retrouvent au commencement du dix-septième siècle. Le lourreur était un joueur de cornemuse, Normand lourre, Danois luur. C’est tout un alors pour nous autres Anglais, que Thoumin le Lorreur, et “Tommy the Piper.”
The first mention of a “Le Lorreur” in the Channel Islands I have found, occurs in the Calendar of Patent Rolls for 1316, where Philip L’Evesque, Bailiff of Jersey, witnesses (June 25th, 1311) a demise by Macie Le Lorreur, clerk, to Richard le Fessu, his brother, Viscount of Jersie, of the escheat of Pierres du Mouster, for twelve cabots of wheat rent yearly, for three virgates of land in the parish of Grouville. The Richard le Fessu mentioned above was also known as Richard de Jersey, he married Elizabeth de Burgo, described as the King’s kinswoman, and in 1317 the King gave, as a grant for life, to “John de Jereseye” his son, the Viscounty of Jersey, which his father had held during his life-time.