Robert Fitz Walter. Fitz Walter Robert King. Fitz Walter requests that a writ be...

Petitioners

Robert Fitz Walter.

Name(s)

Fitz Walter, Robert

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Fitz Walter requests that a writ be commanded to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer and to the Wardrobe to search their records concerning the net sums owed by Fitz Walter to the king. He requests that he is not distrained for these while he is being tried, that money owed to him for his service in Gascony be allowed, and the remainder that he owes be paid in instalments.1)

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.2) He should have a writ in Chancery to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer and that they should do according to the form of the petitions, and the king wishes it thus.

Places mentioned

Gascony, [France].

For the resulting order of enquiry see m.13d in E 159/78

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.136-7 (no.216) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.169a (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 226 (full edition and translation of petition and related documents)