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The Farndale 1 Line
The first Farndale family identified in the Thirteenth Century
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The
Story of the Farndale 1 Line
This is a small medieval Farndale family, of which we have poaching records.
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Nicholas de Farndale Born 1230 The first personal name linked to Farndale |
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Alan Farndale Born 1255 The son of Nicholas Farndale, who we know about because he paid taxes |
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The Ancestry of the Farndale 1 Line
We
can’t link this small family to the wider Farndale family.
Other Farndales in the
medieval period who were probably linked in relationship or geographical origin
can be found at Volume 1 of the Farndale directory.
You can then explore Yorkshire prehistory to give you a further perspective of the distant
ancestry of the people of Farndale.
Chronology of the Farndale
1 Line
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About 1230 |
Nicholas de Farndale was
born. Nicholas is the first
personal name associated with Farndale. |
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About 1255 |
Alan, son of Nicholas de
Farndale, was born. |
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1280 |
From sureties of persons indicted
for poaching and for not producing persons so indicted on the first day of the Eyre Court in accordance with
the suretieship due to Richard Drye.
There follows a long list of names including,…..1s 8d from Roger son of
Gilbert of Farndale (see FAR00028), bail
from Nicholas
de Farndale, (FAR00022), 2s from William
the smith of Farndale, (FAR00009) 3s 4d from John
the shepherd of Farndale, (FAR00010), and 3s 4d from Alan the son of
Nicholas de Farndale. During the late 12th and 13th centuries, small
groups of judges (often referred to as justices) were sent from the central
courts at Westminster to all the counties of England, except Durham and
Chester where the royal jurisdiction did not extend, to preside over local
courts. In theory the eyre
justices travelled these circuits at seven-year intervals, although the
intervals were in practice often much more varied. They sat in judgment over various kinds of legal
cases, referred to as pleas, that had occurred since the last eyre was conducted. Among other things, they dealt with
lawsuits (known as civil pleas); criminal offences (known as crown pleas);
offences against the King’s property rights (also known as crown pleas) and
after 1278, investigations into the land, property and rights held by local
lords with a view to claiming them for the King (a process known as quo
warranto). The records of the eyre
courts are very formal, and are written almost entirely in Latin, much
abbreviated and full of technical legal terminology. They were kept on rolls
of parchment. Each roll is made up of lengths of parchment, known as
membranes, stitched together. The early eyres,
during the 13th century, produced one roll per county, but as business
expanded and material was increasingly arranged into sections, it was
necessary to use more than one roll per county. Feet of fines are court copies of agreements
following disputes over property. In reality, the disputes
were mostly fictitious and were simply a way of having the transfer of
ownership of land recorded officially by the king’s court. The agreements were normally written out three times
on a single sheet of parchment – two copies side by side and one copy across
the bottom (the foot) of the sheet, separated by an indented or wavy line.
The purchaser kept one copy, the seller the other and the final copy – ‘the
foot of the fine’ – was kept by the king’s court as a central record of the
conveyance. Using one piece of parchment separated in this way gave
protection against fraud or forgery as only the genuine copies would fit
together – like a jigsaw. Before 1290, agreements reached in court were often
recorded on the plea rolls but were sometimes recorded elsewhere. |