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THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF STAFFORDSHIRE & DORSET ENGLAND

DERIVATION AND ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF GALPIN

 

A NUMBER of derivations have been found for the name of Galpin, none of which is quite satisfactory.  Several have been taken from a Latin source which is quite improbable.  The best of these is from Galbinus  that is Galbin), a Roman Senator who lived in the time of Cicero, but the resemblance is only accidental excepting that, although separated by so many centuries both may be derived from places with similar names and meanings.  Another Latin derivation is from galea pennata, plumed helm (abbreviated to gal. pen.), which might be considered satisfactory for heraldic purposes but is otherwise absurd.  There can be no doubt that it is a place name, as is the case with most names that have no obvious meaning, the names of places and especially of the natural features of a country such as mountains and rivers being often of great antiquity, generally prehistoric and having a Celtic, Saxon, or other archaic derivation the meaning of which has become lost.

 

There is a small village in Belgium, once a part of Gaul, named Galpen or Galpenberg, and there can be no doubt that the first possessor of the name came from that village, the name being “like many another that seemed to defy all explanation and is found to be that of some obscure village " (as Barber in his British Familv Names remarks). The name is equivalent to Mount Pleasant or Fair Mount (Vermont), Belmont, Montebello, Schonberg, and occurs in many languages. Gal and Gol signify beautiful (compare Gold) and pen being hill, as in

 

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Penzance (supposed to mean Saint’s hill or headjand Cockpen, red hill, and Alp or Albpen, white hill. Berg being also hill is tautological and has been added afterwards in another language when the meaning of the old name had become forgotten through the country being occupied by people of a different nationality. At any rate, the addition of " berg " shows that the village stands on a hill and that " pen " is used in the sense of hill.

 

The name of Galpin is now more common in France than in England, and about the middle of last century George Gaspard Galpin was president of the French Senate.

 

The earliest mention of the name occurs in Normandy, before the Conquest, as Johannes de Galpenberg or de Monte- ` galpino at Evreux. Some years later it is met with as Galopin and occurs repeatedly in that form in the early Norman annals. There can be no doubt that one of that name came over to England at the Conquest and probably all the Galpins in England are descended from that one individual. There is no mention of the name in England before that date, nor did any Galpin come over in more recent times, among the Huguenot immigrants, for instance, as far as I have been able to ascertain.

 

About a century after the Conquest the name occurs in Staffordshire, Dorset, and Westmorland, and a little later in the neighbourhood of London, Surrey, etc. The most numer- ous group at an early date appears in Staffordshire, where they continued to prosper for more than goo years until the time of the Wars of the Roses, during which the whole family dis- appeared from that neighbourhood without leaving a trace. Another branch a little later went to the north and the name there took the form of Gilpin, first mentioned in the time of King john-Richard de Gilpin of Scaleby, Cumberland, and Westmorland. What might be considered an intermediate form, " Gelpin,” also occurs about the same date. The author of T/ze Norman People considers that the two names are identical on heraldic grounds, the arms being:

 

 Galpin or, a bear passant, sable.

 Gilpin or, a boar passant, sable. A

  --(See Robson’s Heraldry, etc.)

 

The two descriptions of the arms differ like the names by only a single letter.


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It is interesting to compare also the arms of the old Dorset family of Gollop of Strode and Bowood (near Bridport):

 

 Gollop, gules, on a bend or a lion pasmnr guardant M5/e.

 

The similarity of names and arms can hardly be accidental. The Galpin arms appear to be the earliest, as having a definite meaning, being a play on the name, while the others imitate them. The crests of Galpin and Gilpin are both a play on the second syllable of the name, pen and pine, viz., a plume of feathers proper, and a pine—branch, vert (or, more modern, a pineapple). Crests being of later origin than escutcheons are not of so much significance.

 

A number of other names are also derived from Galpin, and when the ingenuity that has been shown in spelling a name of six letters in nearly Ioo different ways is considered it is remarkable that some branches of the family have still main- tained it in its original form.

 

Another group settled at an early date in the south—west of England, the first mention I have come across in that neighbourhood being at Mosterton on the Dorset and Somerset borders, where Thomas Galpin gave land to the church of Mosterton (Dorset) A.D. I2 I 8.

 

The name here is spelt Gaiperinus, Gaipinus, and Garpinus, all referring to the said Thomas.

 

About seventy years later they appear in the Bridport records and must gradually have spread over the two counties, but mostly in Dorset. Much about the same time the name occurs in Surrey and Suffolk, so that by the year I3OO the - descendants of probably one man had spread all over England. This is nothing remarkable when compared with the way in which in modern times our colonial families have multiplied and dispersed themselves over vast continents. Later on most of these families seem to have died out or altered their names excepting in Dorsetshire, the name becoming distinctly a Dorsetshire one. About the year 1350 the Black Death or plague carried off a large part of the population of Europe, the mortality being estimated at two-thirds or three—fourths and even more in England, which might account for the dis- appearance of the name in part as entire families were wiped out, but I think the disappearance is greatly due to it being altered out of all recognition into such names as Kilpin, Gollop,


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Galvin, Gape, and many others which would appear to be entirely different names were they not often applied in several variations of this kind to the same individual even in one document. To show how a name can become altered there was a place in Hertfordshire in the fifteenth century called Galpyns. This appears to be the place marked on some maps as Callipers. In an illiterate age a name that conveyed no obvious meaning and was uncommon very easily got altered, and so it happened that in isolated cases the name got changed, but this was not so likely to occur when several families kept together and the name was well known. Even recently and in London I have known the well-known name Crawford turned into Crowsfoot among uneducated people.

 

Surnames were not in use in England and Scotland before the Norman Conquest, and the earliest are found in Domesday Book, mostly derived from Normandy. Many surnames which are “ accounted names of great antiquity " were first assumed at the time of the Conquest. The employment of a second I name, a custom introduced by the Normans, who themselves had not long before adopted it, became a mark of gentle blood, and it was deemed “ a disgrace for a gentleman to have but one single name, as the meaner sort had." It was not until the reign of Edward II that the practice became general among the common people.

 

Coming to the origin of surnames in England we learn from Camden that those most ancient and of best account were derived from places in Normandy, or in neighbouring parts, and that in fact there was no village in Normandy that gave not its name to some family in England, but at a later date a far greater number of family names originated from the names of places in England. Camden observes scarcely a town, village, hamlet, or place in England which has not afforded names to families. It was usual for a man to take the name of the village or hamlet where he had been born or from which he had come. The place—names were often preceded by a de, but such great changes have many surnames undergone, at the hands of their often illiterate possessors, that it is frequently very difficult and not uncommonly impossible to trace their origin. In the great majority of instances, as Camden well remarks, the place bore its name before the family did its sur- name, and it is a mistake for them to think that their ancestors

 


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gave names to places. It was not until the thirteenth century that family names began to be permanent; previously they had varied according to the Christian name of the father. The surnames of the mass of the people were frequently changed. Many dropped the father’s surname for the name of the occupa- tion they had chosen and became Taylors, Bakers, Smiths, etc. There can be no doubt that in later centuries when surnames were permanently appropriated by a family and neither changed by occupation nor at each new generation, they were still subjected to great variations at the hands of our illiterate fore- fathers. The causes of these variations are principally to be found in the circumstance that the orthography of a name was considered to be of slight importance and was often decided bythe clerk of a county parish, who exercised his own judgement as to how the name should be spelt even when the correct name was known by the possessor, as is shown by its return to its correct form after wandering through many extraordinary variations.

 

Galpenberg, a Commune and Village of Belgium in the Province of East Flanders, department of Ophasselt. Popula- tion, 22o.—Univee.<a! Gazezzeer (1 870). ,

 

There is also a river and village of Gulpen in the Duchy of Limbourg.

 

Pen signifies Hill or Head in the Cymro-Celtic language and is common all over Western Europe from the Apennines to the Pennine Hills. Pen, a hill in StaEordshire. Pen-carrig, rocky hill. Pen-y-craig, the head of the rock. Pen—hill in Somerset is tautological like Galpenéerg. Penzance, formerly Pensans, is called the Saint’s headland from a head of St. ]ohn the Baptist (the town’s arms), but Camden thinks it might mean the head of the sands.—·Vide Diet. af P/ace Names, by C. Blackie. e

 

Gald or gold (also Geld and Gild) = valere, to be valuable,. worthy, beautiful; Gal also signifies bright; Birin, bear (Old Gothic); Galdpirin, Goldpirin, noble bear.-—Vide Surnames as a Science, by Robert Ferguson, F.S.A.

 

The name Galpin appears frequently in documents in forms such as Galpin, Garpin or Gaiperin (Dorset, A.D. I2 1 8),

 


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Gylprin, Gylpren, Gilpron, Golperin, Galperin, Galpirne, Golprin (Wilts and Dorset).

 

 

The author of Tlze Norman People says: “ Gilpin armorially identified with Galpin a form of Galopin. Bernardus Galopin of Normandy, A.D. 1198, vide Mag. Rotuli Scacc.; Nicholas Galopin of England, circa 1272, Rotuli Hundredorum; also N. Gelopin. Hence the excellent and devoted Bernard Gilpin." References: M.R.S. (Magn. Rotul. Scaccarii Normaniae} in the Memoirs de la Société des ofntignaires de la Normandie, tomes 1 5-1 7; R.H. (Rotuli Hundredorum), Record Puolications.

 

 

Arms of Galpine of Stafford and Dorset: Or, a bear, passant, sable; crest: a plume of feathers, banded, proper.

 

 

See Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica; Robson’s Heraldry; The Gentleman’s Book ty Crests; Fairbairn’s Crests of Great Britain and Ireland, 1 8 60 (error in the plate, description correct).

 

 

These are probably the earliest arms borne by the family of Galpin or Galpine.

 

 

“ As a rule all authentic coats of arms will be found regis- tered at the College of Arms. Exceptions to this there must be for the records of the Heralds’ Oflice do not extend back to a sufficiently early date to include all ancient coats of arms. In early mediaeval times coats of arms were undoubtedly assumed without any ofiicial sanction, but for the last three or four centuries only those which have originated in a grant from the College of Arms can be regarded as authoritative/’— W. P. W. Phillimore.

 

 

SOME EARLY GALPINS OF NORMANDY

 

John de Galpenberg of Evreux, A.D. 1066.—Mag. Rot. Scacc. Norm.

 

 

When Duke William in 1052 married Matilda, daughter of Count Baldwin of Flanders, she was accompanied by a number of her countrymen to Normandy, and it must have been about this time that john de Galpen settled in that country.

 

[Galpin crest with bear and DEO GRATIAS]

GALPINE

 


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 John de Galpenberg or johannes de Monte Calpino and his daughter, 3I I-Ien. I (1 131).

 Ralph Galopin of Evreux, A.D. 1 1 8 1.

 Bernard Galopin, A.D. 1 198; Roger Galopin, A.D.. 1 198.

 Richard Galopin = Mabille, A.D. 1203.

 Jean Galopin ou Chalopin et Thomassine sa soeur, A.D. 1 3 1 6.

 

 31 HEN. I (1130)

 

 F ilia ;7o}zi.$ de Monte Colvino: Gisleberto de Falesia Medic°

redd Copot de XLVm. arg. p. tra. 7 filia de Monte Calvino.

In thauro IIII li. et deb XXVI li. (,é).—]osh Hunter.

 

A.D. 1181-1200.

 

 

CATHEDRAL CHURCH or ST. MARY, Evmux, No1zMAN1>Y

Rzzdu#o Golopio witness to a Charter of Robert Count of

Meulan giving property to the Cathedral, etc.-Potent Ro//s.

Bernard Go/opin reddit compotum de 4,2 sol pro eodem.

"Pro servicio Regis quod non fecit apud Nonancort."

 

In thesauro I5 sol. Et debet 27 sol.

Rogeras Goipizz reddit compotum de 2O sol pro eodem.

" Pro servicio Regis quod non fecit apud NO11&HCOYt.’,

In thesauro I5 sol. Et debet 5 sol.

 

(Nonancort variously rendered as None in curia, etc., etc.,

du Department de l’Eure.)

([.:2., Bernard Galopin renders account of 42 sols for the

service ofthe King which he did not do at Nonancort. Paid

into the Treasury I5 sols; 27 sols owiiig.)-—Mog. Roz.

Seoocfz. Norm., A.D. Mcxcvuj (1198), vols. xv-xvii.

 

ABBAYE DE TRoARN

 

Guillaume Bourgevin et Ric/zord Golopin du consentment de leurs femmes Nicole et Mooil/e, vendent in 1 203 a l’Abbaye de Troarn trente acres de terre, ainsi que diverses redevances specifiées dans cet acte, revétu des Sceaux des-dites Guillaume et Richard.

 

ABBAYE DE TROARN

 

]ean Galopin ou Chalopin et Thomassine sa soeur vendent a l’Abbaye en 1316 une piece de terre situé a Bures. Ces actes sont revétus de leurs sceaux [seals].

 

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Dzferent forms ty spe//ing token from old documents, deeds, registers, ete.——The name is met with spelt in every conceivable fashion, sometimes in three different ways on one page of a document all referring to one person, for instance, Thomas V Gawpin, son of Edward Cowpen (Stoke Wake, 1610).

 

Calkin. Galpard, Dorset, 1246.

Calpine. Galpe or Galpin, Wimborne,

Calpyn. 1 584.

Calvin. Galpen.

Capelyn, I544. Galpene.

Capin. Galperin.

Capon, Capen, Salisbury, 1619. Galpin.

Capplin. Galpine.

Capplyn, Caplyn, Caplin, Cal- Galping.

pin, Salisbury, 1550. Galpinge.

Chalopin or Galopin, Nor- Galpyn.

mandy. Galpyne or Gulpine, Chancery,

Cowpen, Gawpin (the same 1700.

person). Galvin.

Dalfin, Dalpin, Dalphin, Gau- Gapen, Salisbury, 1652.

pine, Galphin (the same Gapin.

person). Gaping.

Gaelpen. Gapline.

Gainepin. Gapon, Salisbury, I660.

Gaipin or Golopin, 1 198. Gappen, Salisbury, 1656.

Galabin. Gapper, Dorchester, 1631.

Galapin. Gappinge.

Galbin, Wimborne Minster, Gapplin, Salisbury, 1630.

1694. Garlpin.

Galepyn, Lincoln, 1316. Garnepin.

Gallapin, Gallopin, Callapin Garpin, Gaiperin, Gaipin (one

(the same person), Lon- person), Dorset, A.D. 1218.

don. x Gaulpen.

Gallapine. Gaulpin.

Gallopine. Gaupen.

Gallpyn. Gaupin, Bridport, 1 570.

Galofin. Gaupine.

Galopin. Gaupyne.

Galopyn. Gawlpin of Ibberton, 1641.

Galpaine, Somerset, 1662. Gawpen.

 

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Gavvpigne, Galpen (the samei Golpe, Golpy, Bridport.

person}. Golphin or Golfin.

Gawpin, Marnhul, 1634. Golping.

Gavvpine. Golpyn, Ibberton, 1539.

Gawpon. Gowpen, Stoke Wake, 1642.

Gawpyn. Guepin.

Gayllpyn, Thornhill. Guilpin.

Gealpin. Guilpine, London, 1603.

Gellopin, Oxford, 1278. Gullopin.

Gelpin. Gulpen.

Gelpyn. Gulpin.

Gilpron, Salisbury, 1483. Gylpren, Salisbury, 1492.

Gilpurne, Salisbury, 1498. Gylprin of Salisbury, 1510.

Goilpin or Galpin, Chancery. Gylpurn, Salisbury, 1507.

Golopy, Golope, or Gollop. Gylpurne, D.D., Oxford,

Golopyn, Golepyn (the same 1498-1509.

person).

 

EARLY GALPINS OF BRIDPORT & NEIGHBOURHOOD

 

Mosrnnrow (near Beaminster)

 

Thomas Garpin gives lands "super Sorcestre" to the

Chapel of Mosterterne, Dorset, A.D. 1218.

 

Spelt: Gaiperinus, Gaipinus, and Garpinus.——C/ironic/es

and Memorials qf Great Britain and [re/anti.

 

This family of Galpin, after being settled at Bridport for more than 300 years, entirely disappeared———died out, or migrated. After the family of John Gappen, 1602-1609, no more Galpins are mentioned living at Bridport for 77 years, although the Registers begin in 1600. After this interval they are replaced by another Galpin family.

 

The early Galpins of Bridport were not necessarily all of the same family, although the probability is that they Were. In any case they must have been more or less related. Accord-·

 


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ing to the Register there was only one son living in 1609, and he probably died in infancy, and the family disappears after that date. It seems very possible that the John Gollop of I465 of Bowood, four miles from Bridport, was related to or identical with the ]ohn Golope of Bridport of 1454.

 

Room: GALA1>Y1~1,;CH111sT11~1A, widow,

died before 1304. living in 1304 (33

Edw. I).

 

VVILLIAM GALPIN grants

lands in West St. Brid-

port, to his mother, A.D.

1304.

 

]01—1N GAYPIN, living at:_]oANNA.

Bridport A.1>. 1385 (9

Ric. ll).

 

JOHN GOLOPY or joi-iu Go1.Lo1·, Oi`=ALICE, dau. of

GOLOPE, of Brid- Bowood, A.D. 1465. William Temple

port, Timber Mer- (Bowood, four miles of Broadwinsor.

chant, A.D. 1454. from Bridport}.

 

VVILLIAM CAPON, rector

of Simondsbury (Brid-

im), I534·

R1c1-1A1>.D GAUPIN,?AGNES GALPEN,

living at Bridport {widow, buried

A.D. 1574-5. Q 16 july 1601.

]01·1i~1 GAPPEN;

 

I I I I

AN N 1;, bur. KA'FHERINE, jomv, bur. Roismvr, bap.

28 jan. 1602. bap. 28 ]an. 20 April 3I Dec. 1609.

1603-4. 1606.

 

Spelling

Garpin, Galapin, Gaypin, Golopy or Golope, Gollop, Capon, Gaupin or Galpen, Gappen.

 

STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET II

 

SOME EARLY GALPINS

SUFF0LK

 

55 Hen. III (A.D. 1271).

SuH·`olk. Walt’s Galopyn et Matill. ux. ejus et Christiana

soror eiusdem Matill. dant dim. m. p. una as. cap. coram johe

de Cokef. Et mand. est Vic. SuH`.—R0berts’ Excerpts e Ram/is

Firzium.

 

19 Edw. II (1326).

]0hannes Galpyn of Grandston (Grundiston) and Nunewton

attends to array and muster of the Hundred of Loes in the co.

of SufI`0lk 0n Thursday next after the Feast of St. George,

24 April, IQ Edw. II.—Przr!iamenmry Wrirs, vol. ii, div. iii,

part 1, p. 746, 71.

 

OXFORD

 

17 Edw. I (1278).

Com. Oxon. temp. Edw. I (de nativis).

Relicta Gellopin unam pro eode.

(de cotariis) Nich Galopin tenet unam virgat’ eodé modo.

——R0tz¢li Hurzdrcdorum. —

(Note. A virgate was a quarter of a hide and might be 0

120 acres or more, but was not an exact measure of land.)

 

LINCOLN

 

IO Edw. II (1316). .

William Galepyn, in an action for trespass brought against

himself and many others by the Prior of St. Katherine’s,

Linc0ln.——Ca/endar q' Patent Rolls.

 

SOMERSET PLEAS (C1v1L AND CRIMINAL)

 

From the Rolls ofthe Itinerant ]ustices, at the close of the

12th century.——Rec0rds Office.

 

2 Y0/zrz (1201), page 1 5. Isabella Bonet in the same manner

against Robert Bonet on a plea of Dower and of Chattels, by

Wi/[iam Gaiopin.

 

10 Henry III (1226), page 90. T/zamczs Gezzlpin had a plea against Robert de Curteney 10th year of King Henry son of King John.

 

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27 Henry IH (1243), page 2 36. The Hundred of Ceddre

(Cheddar) 27th year of the reign of King Henry son of King

John. Touching purprestures, they say that Wi//iam Gd/epin

occupied half an acre of the moor of our lord the King in

Ceddre. Therefore he is in mercy. Afterwards it is testified

that the Bishops of Bath had that moor in fee of our lord

the King. Therefore no amercement.

 

NORFOLK

Feet of Fines

 

A.D. 1220.

William Galepyn, burgess of Lenn Ep’i.

 

SOMERSETSHIRE

 

18 Edw. II (1324).

Richard Galopyn a free tenant pays rent 9;. and 2:. to the

Manor of Wroxhall, co. Somerset.-·-Calender of Patent Rolls.

 

NOTTINGHAM

 

II Edw. III (1337).

The Sheriff of Nottingham to the Prior of Blyth for

1 5 marks. Mainpernor’s f70}zn Gd/apyn and William de Legh.

-—Ca/enddr q' the Patent R0!/s.

 

Co1zNwALL

 

6 Hen. VI (1434).

Johannes Golepyn et alii tenent medietatem parvi un. f. m.

in Trevesguyt, quam Matilda le Archidiacon quondam tenuit,

et nullus eoroum tenet quartem partem un. f. m. et subsidium

inde———[nichel].—C0rn·wezl!, Hundred of T rigge.

From inquisition taken at Camelford for collecting taxes.

—-Patent R0!/.1.

 

A_D_ 1456, HERTFORDSHIRE

 

In a deed of Release made by the Abbott occurs " Ac

omnia illa terras et tenementa in Watforde [Herts] praedicta,

vocata ‘ Galpyns ’ [now called Callipers]."——-From Riley’s

C/zrenic/es q' the Monastery q' Sz. Aibdns, vol. i, p. 229.

 

WIMBORNE, Doksm

 

7-18 Hen. VI (1428-1439).

Johannes Rodecote nuper vicar’ eccl’. de Crystchirch et

yahannes Cezpan [Gdévin] dederunt Johanni Brackley Capellano

 

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cantar’ voc’ Rodecotes Chauntrye in Wymborne un Messuage

et quasd’ terr etc. in Russlegh, Bydemullemore, Rydemullmede

et Courlescrofte etc.-Calendvzr q' " Inguisizianes ad quad

dczmm4m," Hutchins IV, lxxix.

 

SALISBURY

 

Some Early Galpins Spc]:

1430. John Galpin of New Saresbury Golepyn or

1430. ]ohn Galpin the younger, wool mer- Golopyn

chant

1483. Alicia Galpin pays for funeral 6/8 Gylpron and

Gilpron

1492. Richard Galpin (will) Burgess of St.

Thomas and Alice his widow (no

children mentioned) . Gylpren

1507-1 1. Roger Galpin (of St. Thomas’s) Fell.

New Coll. Oxon. Gylpurn

1509-15. Thomas Galpin, M.A. 1509, D.D.

1 5 1 5 Gylpurne

1510-1 1. John Galpin pays for coflin 28/- {St.

` Edmund’s) Gylpren

1 5 50. Thomas Galpin and wife (St. Ed-

mund’s) Caplyn

1 5 5 1 . John Galpin, Bishop of Sarum, Manor

and Castle of Sherborne Capon

1567. ]ohn Galpin of Hampton   Capplen and

Capplyn

1591-1610. Richard Galpin   and wife. Caplyn and

Wine merchant Caplin

1619-23. Gyles Galpin - Capen

1630-1, ]an. 9. Mr. Richard Galpin, buried Gapplin

1630, ]une 23. Mrs. Ann Galpin, buried Gapline

1652. William Galpin pays for sillings 6/-

St. Thomas’s Gapen

1656, Oct. 27. Mrs. Elizabeth Galpin, buried Gappen

1660, April 16. William Galpin, buried Gapon

1723, June 1. Dorothy Galpin of Broad

Chalke, mar. at St. Martin’s Galpen

I806. ]ohn Galpin, A.L.S. and author Galpine

 

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2 Hen VI (1430). Calendar Patent Rolls.

John Galopyn or Golepyn of New Saresbury co. Wilts the

younger, Wolmonger, summoned for owing {8 and {IO to

Bristol Merchants.

Swayne’s C/zurc/twarcleus’ accouuts of St. Ealiuuucfs aaa' St.

Taomas’s, Sarum

Sarum. St. Thomas’s.

148 3-4. Alicia Gylpron pays vis. viijcl. pro conductione palli

(for a funeral).

 

Monies received for Churche men of St. Edmond’s from March

goth 1483 to April 1484

" Sepulture cum conductionibus ornament’

Et de vis viijd rec’ de Alicia Gilpron.

pro conductione pallei."

 

VVill proved in the Prerogative Court of Chancery 1492.

Gylpren, Richard. St. Thomas’s, Sarum. IQ Dogett. Now

at Somerset House.- Wiltshire Notes aaa' Queries.

 

1510. Johanne Gylpren pays 28s. (for lead for a coilin)

et—xxviijS rec’ de Johanne Gylpren pro vi c.et di plumbi de--

sibi vendit.—-—Eccl’ia S ’ci Ecl’i Sarum. March 3ISt 1 510-

April 2oth 151 1.

 

1 5 5o- 51. St. Edmonds

Pewes. Also in primys Rec’ Eor the charge of Thomas

Caplyn’s wyve’s pewe IIIId. .

 

4 Edw. VI (1551).

John Galpin (Capon) Bishop of Sarum demised to Edward

Duke of Somerset the Manor of Sherborne with the Castle

and Seven Manors.

 

1568.

St. Edmond’s, 1567-1568. New Organ. The said

_ Accowntansy answeryth for money by them beggyd towards the T

making of the organs by their names as hereafter Ffolloyth.

In primys of Mr. ]ohn Capplen of hampton iis.

(Note.—This is the largest donation. Many gave 1c!.)

[dem Mr. ]ohn Capplyn for vij wenscottes xxxiiijs.

 

STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET I5

 

1591-2. Rich. Caplyn Wyne 48s.

1593-4. Ric. Caplyn Wyne 265. 1 14.

1594-5. Ric. Caplyn Wyne, 27s. 24.

1595-6. Mr. Caplyn Wyne 35;.

1 597-8. Mr. Caplyn, wyne due when Mr. Godfrey was CW

(Churchwarden), 47s.; hoc anno, 40s. IO4.; barres

and yron for the wyndowe, 154.

1 599-1600. Pewse—Ric. Caplyn w [wife] 2s. 64.

1604, April 9. Richard Caplyn C.W.

May 6. For divers reasons and for the {ine of 40:. he is

discharged and Henrie Harnon chosen instead.

1609-10. Mr. Caplyn Wyne, A2 12s. 44.

1619-20. Acc’t for building the Ringing loft.

Gyles Capen subscribed 24. (indexed as Caplyn).

1622. Gyles Capen gives 34.

9 Jan. 1630. Mr. Richard Gapplin buried.

23 June 1632. Mrs. Ann Gappline buried.

1651-2. for sittings Mr. W. Gapen 4s.

Oct. 27 1656. Mrs. Elizabeth Gappen buried.

1 6 April 1 660. William Gapon buried.

1806. John Galpine, A.L.S. of Salisbury, author of a

Sytzoptictzi C0mpeiz4ium ey' Britis/z Botany.

 

DORCIIESTER, Donsm

 

Holy Trinity (Registers from 1 5 59 to 167 5) searched

cA1>EN, CAPIN, GALPEN, GAPEN, GAWPEN, GAPPER

1600, Ap. 3. Robert Gawpen and Catherine Bishop mar.

1628, Sep. 8. James Capen bur.

1629-30, Jan. 17. Nicholas Upsal and Dorothy Capen mar.

1630, Oct. 1 8. Thomas Swift and Elizabeth Capon mar.

1631-2, Jan. 29. Jane, dau. Wiilliam Gapper bap.

1632, May 28. Mary, wife Thomas Gapen bur.

1633, Nov. 25. William, son William Gapper bap.

1633-4, Feb. 16. Jane, dau. Bernard Capen ,,

1633-4, Feb. 23. Elizabeth, dau. Thomas Capon ,,

1633-4, March 3. Elizabeth, dau. Thomas Capon bur.

1635, July 12. Barnard, son Barnard Capen bap.

1636-7, Feb. 24. Wiilliam Gapper bur.

1637, Nov. 5. William, son Barnard Capen bap.

1 640, Nov. 8. Mary, dau. Barnard Capen bap.

 

 

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16 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF

1642-3, Jan. 1. John, son Barnard Capen bap.

1642-3, Jan. 6. John, son Barnard Capen bur.

1643, Ap. 22. William, son Thomas Gapen bur.

1653, Dec. 18. Ruth, dau. Barnard Galpen bap.

1656, March 29. A man child of Barnard Galpen,

still-born bur.

1661, Oct. 1 1. Barnard Galpen bur.

1662, May 30. John, son of the widow Galpen ,,

1663-4, March 24. Mary, dau. Thomas Gapen bap.

1667, Ap. 7. Mary, dau. Thomas Gapen bap.

 

St. Peter’s, Dorchester, 1 6 53-1 67 5

GALPEN, GAPIN

 

1655-6, Feb. 18. Thomas Galpen and Jane Harris mar.

1658, May 9. Sarah, dau. Thomas Gapin (b. Ap. 16) bap.

1660-1, Feb. 1 7. Hannah, dau. Thomas Gapin bap.

 

All Saints’, Dorchester, Registers, 1653-1675

NO GALPINS

 

Tablet in Church.

To Mr. William Gape, late inhabitant of the Parish of

St. Paul in Covent Garden, Westminster, bequeathed to the

poor of the Parish of All Saints {Q 5 per annum for ever.

His will proved 20 Oct. 1675.

Mary, his wife, died 16 Nov. 168 1.

Arms: Per pale, or and argent, a fess and in chief three

crosslets iitchée sable.

" Thomas Gape by Will dated Jan 2 1667-8 left { 100 to

the poor of All Saints, Dorchester, where he was b0rn."

(Note.——Galpin is entered in the Charminster Registers

(near Dorchester) as Gape.) (John Gapen or Gape, 1574, and

his son John Gapen married 1610.)

 

AMERICA

 

References.

Savage, James, Genealogical Dictionary of clzejirsc settlers in

New England. 4 vols. Boston, 1860-2. Vol. ii, p. 223.

Cothren, William, History of Ancient Woodoury. Water-

bury, 1854. P. 544.

 


STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET I7

 

History of Ancient Woodonry

 

Benjamin Galpin and his wife Rebecca came from Stratford

to Wood.bury about I680. Mr. Galpin died in 1731 and his

widow in 1743. (Numerous descendants.)

 

Savage’s Genea/ogicai Dictionary

 

Benjamin Galpin, Woodbury. Perhaps son of Philip by wife Rebecca. (Probably came from Bridport to Stratford.) Numerous descendants: Samuel Galpin, clergyman (Cothren, p. 469); Leman Galpin, M.D., Milan, Ohio; and others.

 

Daniel Galpin, son of Richard Galpin of Bridport and his wife Mary Carter of Beaminster, went to U.S.A. about 1830 or later. Charles Galpin, his brother, also went to U.S.A., and was killed in the Civil War. He was born IO Dec. 1813 and married, 26 jan. 1839, Charlotte, dau. of Robert Budden of Allington, Dorset. He left children, Flora, born 18 March 1 835, and Charles Miller Galpin, born 3 Nov. 1 841, who was living in Philadelphia in 1877.

 

Fort Gatpin, in Montana, on the River Missourie.

 

Gaipin Post——the name of the American Civil War Com- memoration Society, at Glen Falls, on the Hudson River, State of New York.

 

(Note.——A large number of these fraternities are found throughout the States named after various leaders.)

 

GALMN, co. STAFFORD, mc.

 

IO66. Johannes de Montgalpen of Evreux, Normandy, 1066.

-—Mag. Scac. Rot. Nornz.

 

1085. Galpin or Dalfin, Tenant in Capite (equivalent to

Baron).——Doniesa’ay Book, A.D. IO8 5.

 

The baron’s position was connected with the tenure of land. All those who held " in chief " (i.e., directly) of the King were alike Barone; Regis, bound to perform a stipulated service and were members of his council. The earliest hereditary barons were not created until the reign of Edward I and the title of Lord was not added until 1 387.—Encycl. Britannica.

c

 

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Walter de Gray Birch, F.S.A., etc., says: " Many of the names of persons and places [in Domescioy Book] no doubt have been written down by the Norman scribes incorrectly; there is a remarkable difference in spelling [in the different copies] showing caprice and inattention which is not easily to be ‘ explained, and it would appear that the scribes were guided by phonetics rather than strict adherence to their original manu- script, and the correct spelling has undergone corruption in passing through the pen of a scribe who depended upon his own peculiar phonetic differentiation. It would almost seem as if he had written from dictation and not from actual inspection of the material which he was condensing. These names, in many instances, passed on in the family until they became finally and firmly established as surnames."

 

The place-names might be divided into separate classes

showing the prehistoric or Celtic, the Roman, the Anglo-

Saxon, the Danish, and the Norman origin of the names.

 

STAFFORDSHIRE

 

From Collections for tz History cyf Stofordséire issued by the William Salt Archaeological Society, and other sources.

 

Chillington Charters, vol. iii, p. 209.

 

A.D. 1 1 99-1 209. Golopiii and Editlz his wgfe grant to Hugh son of Peter Giifard a virgate of land in Ackbury and half a virgate of land in Hyde.

 

Harleian MSS., No. 5816, fol. 38.

 

Sciant etc. quod ego Golopimts et Editlzo uxor mea dedimus et concessimus, et hac presenti carta nostrae confirmavimus Hugoni {ilio Petri Giifard pro homagio et servitio suo et pro duabis marcis argenti, unam virgatam terrae in Herkebarowe, et dimidiam virgatam terrae in Hyde, quae fuit maritagium Matiltlis motris preeliotoze Etlitlztze, etc.

 

Hiis testibus. Thoma de Erdinton, Hugone de Leyes, . Willielmo Bogod, Walter de Somerford, Simone de Coven, Yvone de Hyde, Willelmo Bekac, ]ohanne filio Willelmi, et multis aliis.

 

Notes

 

This deed was doubtless executed during the shrievalty of

Thomas de Erdington, as it is improbable he should have

 

STAFF ORDSHIRE AND DORSET 1 9

 

O LEEK

Kangsley

+

Dilhorn

_ O O Cheadle

°Caverswe|I

+

Croxden

I +Fu|Ford

Blore Heath O Miiwich

+ + +

ECCLESHALL

Drayton

Bassett

+

I Scale of Mi/es.

0 5 za

COUNTY OF STAFFORDSHIRE

 

20 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF _

 

attested it in any other capacity than Sheriff. For greater formality and publicity grants of land were often made in ancient days in p/em cemitata, i.e., before the County Court in which the Sheriff presided. This would account for the presence of Hugh de Leyes, the Chief Forester of the County. The other witnesses are mostly near neighbours of the Giffards. William Bogod was the contemporary Lord of Blyrnhill and was dead A.D. 1209 (see vol. i, p. 292, of Collections). ]ohn, son of William, the last witness of the deed, was his son and heir.

 

Galepia is a common name in France at the present day and is as characteristic of a French origin as Edith the name qf Galopirfs wife illustrates an English origin. Herkebarowe, in the modern form of Ackbury, still survives as the name of a farm adjoining the Hide of Chillington.——Salt Arch. Soc.

 

(Trans.: Be it known that I, Galopin, and Edith my wife give and concede and by this our present charter have confirmed to Hugh the son of Peter Giffard, for his homage and service and for two marks of silver, one virgate of land in Ackbury and half a virgate of land in Hyde, which was the marriage portion of Matilda, the mother of the said Edith.)

 

The size of a virgate of land varied at different periods and places, but was generally a quarter of a hyde. A hyde was also not a fixed amount and varied according to fertility and con- venience. It is considered to be an amount sufficient for a family of some importance and has been placed at as much as 480 acres and even more, but it is diflicult to reduce to acres a measure so variable.

 

[A.D. 1220-123,0.

Harleian MSS., No. 5816, fol. 38.

 

Hugh Giffard sells to his brother Peter Giffard, Ackbury and half a virgate of land in the vill of Hyde, which had been the marriage portion of Matilda, the mother y' Edith the =wq'e m' Galepia.]

 

Sciant etc. quod ego Hugh Giffard concessi et quietam clamavi de me et heredibus meis in perpetuum, Petro Giffard fratri meo, et heredibus suis totam terram quae vocatur Herke- barowe et dimidiam virgatam terrae in villa de Hyde, cum

 


STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET 21

 

omnibus pertinentiis suis quae fuit maritagium Maiildis inatris Edit/zae nxoris Ga/opini, tenedam et habendam de Gafvina et heredibus suis sicut carta mea quam habeo de predicto Galopino ei Editfia uxore sua testatur, pro hac autem mea concessione et quieta clamatime dedit mihi praedictus Petrus Giffardus frater meus quinque marcas argenti. Hiis testibus Radulfo Dulverne, Herves de Stretton, Nicolas le Urs, Hugone de Dokeseia, Yvone de Mere, Roberto de Wistun, Waltero de Somerford, Alexandro Munthall, Roberto de Pendeford, Willelmo de Engelton, et multi aliis.

 

(N0z‘e.—In this deed Hugh Giffard transfers the land he had

acquired from Ga/apin and Edith to his brother Peter Giffard

of Chillington, etc.)

 

Calendar of Patent R0!/s

 

I5 Hen. lll (1231).

Rex suscepit in salvum et securum conductum suum carettam Godardi de Notingham quam Rogerus l\/Iilksoppe ducit cum vietualibus in veniendo ad exercitum Regis versus partes Wallie.

Consimiles literas habent:

Willelmus Londun de caretta quam Wi//e/mas Galapin

ducit.

I (William Galopin in command of a Commissariat wagon

for the War in Wales.)

Salt Coil., vol. vi, p. 140.

P/ea Ra/is gf t/ie Reign qf Edward [ (1 272-1 307).

 

Assizes taken before R. de Heugham and W. de Cokesay

at Pencrys on the Friday in the week of Pentecost. 7 Edw. I

(1279)-

 

Co. Stafford. Wil/iam Gamyn ef Cizedei who brought a writ of novel disseisin against Sir Simon Bassett and others respecting common of pasture in Chedle (Cheadle) withdrew his plea. Meina. 6.

 

Vol. vii, p. 7o.

 

Assizes taken at Stafford before William Inge and Nicholas Fermband assigned to take the same in co. Stafford on the Friday after the Feast of the Holy Trinity. 28 Edw. I (1299).

 

22 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF

 

Rohert Galpyu not appearing to prosecute his writ of novel disseisin versus Hugh sou if Adam Gamyu and Adam Gahoyu respecting a freehold in Dulverne (Dilhorn) the suit is dis- missed. Memh. II.

 

Vol. vii, p. 132.

 

Assizes taken at Wolverhampton in co. Stafford before the same Justices (? William de Mortimer and Roger de Bellapago) on Wednesday before the Feast of the Purification. 3 5 Edw. I (1307}

 

An Assize, etc. if Richard sou of Hugh Gamyn of Dulverue, Richard de Caverswell, William de Caverswell, Clerk, William Cort of Caverswell and Hugh de Peshale of Dulvere [sic] had unjustly disseised Rohert Galvyu of Cheadle of a toft and half a virgate and two acres of land and three acres of meadow in Dulverne (Dilhorn).

 

Richard de Caverswell answered as tenant and stated he entered by the said Richard sou q' Hugh, and Richard sou q' Hugh stated his father died seised of the tenements and he had entered into them as.his son and heir.

Verdict for the defendants. Memh. 21.

 

Chronicles q' the Reighs of Edward I aud H

A.D. 1302. Session of judges at Leadenhall——Richard

Galopin, justice.

Eodem anno in Festi Sancti Dunstani domini-Londoni- arum justiciarii regis assignati, sedebant apud aulam plumbeam super Cornhille per breve regis pro transgressione facta. Ricardum Galopyn et ceteros in brevi nominatos.

 

Salt Collectious, vol. x, p. 16.

Extracts from Plea Rolls

 

Coram Rege. Hillary, 8 Edw. II (13 I4).

 

Stai¥ord. Richard de Whitemor of Brodok (Broadoak), ` John and Richard his sons, William Longsing and Robert and Henry his sons, Henry del Shawe of Hunteleye and Thomas his son, Philip Galpyu and twenty—six others named, were attached to the suit of Robert de Dutton for coming vi et armis on the Saturday before the Feast of St. ]ohn the Baptist, 7 Edw. II, and breaking down his fences at Rounhall at a place

 

STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET 23

 

called Sothewode and destroying his growing corn with oxen, cows, and horses, to the value of ,£2O and for which he claimed {60 as damages. Some of the defendants denied the trespass, . and Robert son of William Lonsing, for himself and others, stated that the place called Sothewode was his common pasture, appurtenant to his tenement, and because the said Robert de Dutton had put up fences and sown his common pasture he and the others named had pulled them down, as was lawful, and he appealed to a jury which is to be summoned for three weeks from Easter. M. 60.

 

I5 Edw. II (Am. 1321).

(VVilliam Galpyn of Cheadle.)

 

Richard son of Richard de Clynt of Chedle, Richard de Lychwode, William Gczézbyn of Chedle, William son of Thomas de Thene and five others were attached to answer the plea of the Abbot of Crokesdene that they had illegally taken and impounded the cattle of his plough at Doggechedle on the Monday before the Feast of St. john the Baptist 1 5 Edw. II (1321). M. 49 llama.

 

The defendants, with the exception of the two first named, denied the trespass altogether and the said Richard and Richard stated that the King had sent his writ to Ralph de Grendon to supply from each vill of the county a man on foot to be armed and maintained by the vill for 4.0 days, and to be sent to New- castle-upon-Tyne for the King’s war and in pursuance of this mandate the said Ralph had caused all the men of the County between two ages named, to come before hin1 at Stafford on the Wednesday in the week of Pentecost 1 5 Edw. II in order to select a man from each vill, and among these he had selected from the vill of Chedle, one named john de Bannebury and had assigned Richard the son of Richard, and Richard de Lychwode to levy the cost of the arms and stipend of the said john from the said vill, and for this purpose the said Abbot for the tene- ments he held in Doggechedle had been assessed at I 5s. 6d. and refused to pay the money, in consequence of which they had distrained him, as stated, because they could not find any- thing else on which a distress could be levied, and they appealed to a jury, which is to be summoned for the morrow of St. Martin. M. 49 dorm. 2

 


24 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF

 

Note says: “ Without doubt the ecclesiastical bodies

claimed to be exempt from the impost."

 

Sa/t’s Collections, vol. ix, p. 90.

 

16 Edw. II (1322), Trinity. Banco Roll.

Joan, formerly wife of Richard de Warylowe, sued William

Gaéoyn for a third of ten acres of land in Chedele (Cheadle)

as her dower. William called to warranty Thomas le Fitz

Ithel le Warner [sic] who is to be summoned for the Quinden

of Michaelmas. M. 50.

 

Patent Rolls

 

1 Edw. III (1327).

Pardon to John Galpyn for the death of Richard de la

Shawe of Thornbury.

Vol. vii, p. IZI5.

 

Exc/iegner Snosicly Roll

 

A.D. 1327. Hundred de Fatemonlowe.

This subsidy was granted by the first parliament of the

King Edward III to meet the expenses of the Scotch War.

De Wi1’mo Galpyn vs. 6c!. (The largest amount for

Cheadle.)

Vol. ii, p. 1 6. Extracts from the Plea Rolls.

Easter 4. Edw. III (1330). De Banco.

 

Alexander de Walsham was summoned by Isabella, formerly wife of Simon Basset, in a plea that he should permit her to present a fit person to the Church of Chedle which was vacant, etc.

 

Willelmns Ga@>yn de Comitatu Stafford was one of the

witnesses to a deed_produced in this case dated 18 March

4 Edw. III. M. 64. `

 

4 Edw. III (1331).

 

Willelmus Galpyn de Comitatu Stafford, witness to a deed given as evidence in a dispute between Alexander de Walsham and Isabella, formerly wife of Simon Bassett, re presentation to the Church of Cheadle.

 

STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET 25

 

6 Edw. III (1332). Exchequer Salxsicly Roll. p. 1 17.

Taxes granted by Parliament for the expenses of the

Scotch War.

KYNGESLEY

]oh’ne Galpyn ijs vid

Ale:x’o Galpyn xiid

CHEDLE

Will’o Galpyn vis

P- 49-

 

Mich. 7 Edw. III (1333).

Richard, son of Alan de Leghes of Whiston, and Margaret his wife sued William Galpyn of Checlle for I4 acres of land in Kyngesley and he sued Yolzn Ga@>yn eyf C/zedle for two acres of land and William le Taillour of Chedle for an acre of land in the same vill, as the right of Margaret.

The defendants prayed a view and the suit was adjourned to the Quindene of Hillary. M. 124.

_ p. 58.

 

1334. De Banco. Hillary 8-9 Edw. III (1334.-5).

 

Richard, son of Allan de Leghes of Whiston, and Margaret lzis ·wg’e sued 70lzn Gaéoyn gf Clzeclle for two acres of land in Kyngesley and they sued William Galpyn of Chedle for thir- teen and a half acres of land and Richard de la Shawe of Thorn- bury for one acre in the same vill as the right of the said Margaret.

 

None of the defendants appeared and the Sherii¥ was ordered to take the tenements into the King’s hand and summon them for the Quindene of Holy Trinity. M. 338.

 

Patent Rolls

 

II Edw. III (1337).

The Sheriff of Nottingham to the Prior of Blythe for 1 5

marks. Mainpernors: ]ohn Galopyn and

William de Legh.

 

CRoxDBN ABBEY, STA1=FoRDs1—11RE

 

Among the annals of Crokesden Abbey compiled by a

monk named William Shepsheved the following entry made in

1335 occurs: A

 

26 _ THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF

 

" Mcccxxxv. Combusta sunt nemora nostra de Mosdene

scil: Wivelisdene et Pokebach, preter le Oxeheye, et venditur

in summa Wi!/ielmv Ga{vya.——Vide C0!/ectanea Tapographica,

vol. ii, p. 307. (Inaccurate in Dugdale’s Mmzaszicon.)

 

134-5-

Sir Hugh Galpyn (Calpin) at the Siege of Calais, 134.5-8, bore arms: Argent a pale between two greyhounds, erect, sable (respecting each other, in Stowe). Sir Robert Galpyn (Capon), Edw. III Roll, 1 327-77, bore arms: Gules, three capons and a bordure engrailed argent.—As/zmare Roll.

 

Salt Arc/z. Sac., p. 101.

Easter, I4 Edw. III (1340). De Banco.

Wil/iam, son J Raéert Ga@ya, appeared by Attorney against John, son and heir of Thomas Itthel, in a plea that he should warrant to him the third of three acres of land and two acres of meadow in Chedle which Margery, formerly wife of Thomas Ithel, claimed as dower. John did not appear and the Sheriff I had taken the dower claimed into the King’s hand. Margery therefore to recover seisin and Wil/iam is to be compensated from the land of the said John. M. 124.

 

.4.0. 1346. Vol. xx, new series. Vol. ii, pp. 100-101. /~/

(Containing a history of the Manor and parish of Weston under Lizard and giving an account of Adam de Peshale, wherein it states):

 

Thereupon a writ dated from Porchester on the 27th May 20 Edw. III   1 346) was issued stating that " whereas we lately assigned our trusty and well-beloved Robert de Ferrars to arrest Adam de Peshale, a common malefactor notoriously accused of various homicides and other felonies and to bring him dead or alive, and with power to depute others in his place to perform and execute the same, and the said Alan having broken his attachment ‘ et legam regai nastri dgfagiens nolait stare jari ’ we have pardoned etc. John de Ipstanes, _ William Trumwyn, Thomas de Creswell, William Trumwyn, bastard, John Sumner? of Whytegreve, John de Chestershire, John de Breydeshale, William Williamsmon [Le., William,

 


STAFFORDSHIRE AND DORSET 27

 

William Trumwyn’s man] Tromwyn, John son of William Rowe of Norton and Thomas William’s Chamberleyn [i.e., Thomas, William Trumwyn’s Chamberlain] Tromwyn, who had been deputed by the said Robert and who pursuing the said Adam as a felon took him at Kaynton in co. Salop, etc."

 

Apparently this pardon was not considered full enough for on 7 July another pardon was issued by the Custos, Lionel the King’s son, which using the same words as the other pardoned the following persons for the same act, viz., John de Ipstones, William Tromewyne, Thomas de Kerswell, John de Breydeshale, John de Chestreshyre, John de Whytegrave, John de Norton, Thomas Chamberlein, Ralph de Ipstones, William de Somerford, Alexander de Whytington, William de Whytington, Adam Galpyn, and Thomas Ronsleigh.

 

Extract from the Plea Rolls. Vol. xiii, p. 76.

1369. De Banco. Trinity, 43 Edw. III (1369).

 

Adam de Homerslele (Hammersley) sued William Galoyn for chasing IOO of his sheep with his dogs at Kyngele so that by the bites of dogs they had been deteriorated in value and for which he claimed 4os. as damages and likewise for tearing down and consuming his corn and grass with his cattle to the value of 4os. William did not appear and the Sheriff was ordered to distrain and produce him on the Quindene of St. Michael. M. 397.

 

A.D. 1373. De Banco. Mich., 47 Edw. III [1373]. p. IO3.

 

Ralph de Ferrers, Chivalier, sued John Cokeslone, parson of the church of Weston under Lousyerd [Lizard], yolzn Gahbyn of Eccles/zale, John de Prestbury, and William de Shaldford for forcibly entering his park at Elenhale and chasing and killing his game. None of the defendants appeared and the Sheriff was ordered to distrain John Cokeslone, who had found bail, and to arrest the others and produce them on the Quindene of St. Hilary. M. 516.

 

(1374.) The Borough of Gildford.

 

Members of Parliament (taken from Prynne’s Re_gisier J Parliamenzary W rits clown to Eclw. IV. From thence to the Restoration from the Notitia q' Parliament of Brown W illis).

 


28 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF

 

47 Edw. III (1374).

William Gallopin and Roger Lombard, Members of

Parliament.

 

Patent Rolls

 

2 Richd. II (1378). Co. Stafford.

Commission to enquire, etc., _70hh Gezlvyn, with others

helping.

The Abbot of Dieuleucrees " desiring to perpetuate maintenance in his marches and oppress the people " killing and maiming several.

 

Wm. Sale Sac., vol. xiv, p. 152.

Coram Rege

Trinity, 3 Ric. II (1379).

 

John de Verdon, Sheriff, and Richard Fevesone, William Stonylowe, and ffohh Gzzl;z>yh, three of the Coroners answer to an appeal of Hilaria, formerly wife of William Horsho (about the murder of her husband). M. 1 3 Rex.

 

16 April, 3 Ric. II (1379).

 

An inquisition taken at Leek before Ralph de Vernoun, Chevalier, John de Wolaston, Yeh}: Gahayh and their fellow Yuxtices by virtue of the King’s Commission and on the oaths of Henry de Delf, etc., on Monday the Feast of the Apostles Philip and James 3 Ric. II (re murder of John de Warton). The Abbot of Dieulacres had received the murderers knowing they had comitted the felony.

 

Coram Rege. Easter, 5 Ric. II (138 1).

 

Staffordsh.). Peter de Leghe of co. Chester and William de Gunston, monk, of Crokesdene were attached to answer the appeal of jean, formerb ihe ·w#e q' yah}: Gez@yh, for the death of her hushmzel ; and she states that her hushezml, john Gezlpyh, was in the peace of God and of the King at Harewodlane in the parish of Chedle in co. Stafford on Thursday in the week of Pentecost, 4 Ric. II, at the hour of curfew (hom ighiiergii) when Nicholas Welok of co. Chester, whom the said Joan also appealed if he were present, struck the said John Galpyn with his sword on his right arm causing a mortal wound of which

 

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he died, and the said Peter and William Gunston and Robert del Walle, john de Legh, and William Trittok of Ipstones on the Sunday in the Feast of the Pentecost of the same year at Ipstones had procured, abetted, and arranged that the said Nicholas should commit the felony.

 

And the said Peter and VVilliam Gunston denied the felony and put themselves on the County, and joan likewise, but the process was respited until the principal had been convicted, and Peter and VVilliam prayed they might be admitted to bail, and Peter produced as sureties Ralph Vernon, Chivaler, and Thomas de Asshton, Chivaler, Thomas de Aston, Chivaler, and john de Stanley, who became bound to produce the said Peter on the Quindene of St. john the Baptist, and William Gunston was likewise admitted to bail.

 

A postscript states that on that day the parties appeared and john de Leghe likewise surrendered and appealed to a jury, and as the Sheriff returned that Nicholas the principal had been outlawed, he was ordered to summon a jury for three weeks from Nlichaelmas, and Robert Knolles, Richard Greve, Chivaler, john Ipstanes, Chivaler, and john Stanle became sureties to produce the defendants at that date and likewise for their good behaviour towards the said Yann, and William Gunston was committed to the Nlarshalsea in the custody of Robert Bracy and afterwards john de Ipstanes, Chivaler, Peter de Leghe, john de Leghe, William de Rygway, and Thomas de Howe became sureties for him and for his good behaviour towards foam under a penalty of {100.

 

And the process was continued till the Quindene of Hillary, when the defendants appeared and joan being solemnly called up to the fourth day did not appear, they were therefore quit of her appeal but had to answer for the felony to the King. And they pleaded not guilty and appealed to a jury, which was to be summoned for a month of Easter and they were released on bail, and Robert Knolles, Chivaler, john de Ipstones, Chivaler, Robert de Swynhiton (Swynnerton), Chivaler, and Robert de Hyde became sureties for Peter de Leghe and john de Leghe, and john de Ipstones, Chivaler, and Robert de Swynhiton, Chivaler, Robert Hyde, and Peter Leghe became sureties for William de Gunston: on the above day the defendants appeared and the process was moved by a writ of nisi prius to be heard at Stafford by the justices of assize

 


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