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Gaillard d'Escossan. Escossan Gaillard [Not specified.] Item Gaillard had the mill...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/114/5696

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This record is about the Gaillard d'Escossan. Escossan Gaillard [Not specified.] Item Gaillard had the mill... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/114/5696
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Gaillard d'Escossan.
Name(s)
Escossan, Gaillard
Addressees
[Not specified.]
Nature of request
Item Gaillard had the mill near the castle of Benauge before the war, and it was destroyed in the war, but because it was very convenient for the castle Greyly had it rebuilt, and he appropriated it to himself, Gaillard requests that he be restored to seisin of the mill as he had before the war, and the fruits received after the peace should be restored to him.
Nature of endorsement
[The response has been partially cut away and the sense is now lost.]
Places mentioned
Benauge [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
John de Greyly.
Note
The petition dates to 1305 as the seneschal was ordered to restore the mill to the petitioner if he so found by an inquisition on 6 April 1305 (Roles Gascons, vol. III, no.4862).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3865
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Roles Gascons, vol. III (1290-1307), ed. C. Bemont, (, 1906), no.4862 (order to restore the petitioner if the seneschal could find by inquisition that the petitioner had a claim)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150369/

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