Robert le Galician. Galician Robert The King The petitioner shows that he has been...

Petitioners

Robert le Galician.

Name(s)

Galician, Robert

Addressees

The King

Nature of request

The petitioner shows that he has been delayed from obtaining ten quarters of flour on St Lawrence's day and 16s. of cornage at Martinmas from Groville, which was granted by Arikebet and Sotewant upon the marriage of the petitioner's father and mother and to their heirs. Concerning this matter, his father is named in King Henry's rolls as his guarantee and the bishop's bailiff and Grandison granted seisin to the heirs, and the mother of the heirs died whilst so seised. After this Darcy the bailiff (by order of the bench of London) ousted the petitioner, who then brought a writ for the return of his rights, for which the petitioner required the king's grace to attend the inquest to try his right. The petitioner asks the king to restore his rights.1)

Nature of endorsement

It is answered that what is asked cannot be done because the predecessors of the petitioner are excluded by judgement whereby the fee is adjudged forever to belong to the king because the predecessors did not show their charter of King Henry which they said they have on the day assigned to them to show the same, nor do the letters from the Chancery upon the restitution of the fee obtained afterwards stand in the way because in the said letters mention was not made of the judgement, and so they were obtained by a perversion of the truth.2) This is approved by the council by consultation.

Places mentioned

Groville, [Gascony, France]

London

People mentioned

Henry III, King of England

William de Arikebet

Adam de Sotewant

Joan [Galician], mother of the petitioner

Raol Galician, father of the petitioner

Philippe, bailiff of the bishop

Otes de Grandison

Peres Darcy, bailiff of Grandison

For a related petition see SC 8/266/13264

• Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.25-6 (full calendar of petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.507-8 (order to the keeper of the Channel Islands to allow le Galician his rights)