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William was a Smith of Farndale
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William the Smith of Farndale 1240? To 1310?
FAR00009
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1240
Say he was age
40 at the time he paid taxes, then he was born about 1240
1280
William
the smith of Farndale, paid taxes to the Eyre Court in 1280 (Feet of Fines). These taxes might have been bail for
a poaching incident – see below.
In
the same year, 1280, he was indicted for poaching and paid 2s bail - 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 (FAR00028), bail from Nicholas de Farndale, (FAR00022), 2s from William the Smith of
Farndale, 3s 4d from John the shepherd of Farndale, (FAR00010), and 3s 4d from Alan the son of
Nicholas de Farndale. (FAR00011)
(Yorkshire Fees). (See FAR0019).
There
is a separate page about poaching in
Pickering Forest.
1310
If he lived for
four score years and ten, he might have lived to 1310.