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Shepherd of Farndale who was bailed for poaching in 1280 |
John the Shepherd of Farndale 1250? to 1320?
FAR00010
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1250
If John was aged 30 when he paid taxes,
then he was born about 1250.
1280
John the shepherd of Farndale, paid taxes to the Eyre Court in 1280. (Feet of Fines). This tax was probably the bail referred to below.
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, (FAR00009) 3s 4d from John the shepherd of
Farndale, (FAR00010), and 3s 4d from Alan the son of
Nicholas de Farndale. (FAR00011) (Yorkshire
Fees). See
also FAR00019.
There is a separate page
about poaching in
Pickering Forest.
1320
If John lived
to the age of about 70, then he would have lived to about 1320.