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The Inquisition of 1282 relating to Farndale 24 March 1282
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Settlement in
Farndale by 1282
The 1282 extent shows a considerable increase over that of 1276,
but this probably means nothing more than that a new and up-to-date survey was
used as the basis for the later document. The Farndale rents now amounted £
38-8-8d together with a nut-rent and a few boon works and if the rate of 1s 0d
per acre still applied, this would give a total acreage held in bondage of no
less than 768 acres. In Bransdale rents were up to £4-14-3d which would
give us about 188 acres at the old rent of 6d per acre. For the first time the
number of bondmen are given - 25 in East Bransdale and
90 in Farndale.
The sheer scale is impressive enough, but there are features which
point to a planned campaign of settlement. It is difficult to imagine
how men of villain status, compelled to pay rents of 1s 0d per acre for minute
holdings of marginal land, could also have managed to undertake their own
assarting. It seems more likely that the land had been reclaimed in advance of
letting, as at Goathland, by the Lord’s agents, while the standard rents
suggest a single campaign on a large scale rather than piece meal assaulting. A number of key questions cannot be answered from the
sources we have used so far. It is not clear whether settlement of the two
Dales completed by 1282.
Baldwin Wake died in 1282 and was succeeded by his son and heir
John Wake who was summoned to Parliament as Lord Wake by Edward I.
‘In a certain dale called Farndale
there are fourscore and ten natives, not tenants by bovate of land, but
by, more and less, whose rents are extended at £38 8s 8d. Each of whom pays
at Martinmas two strikes of nuts, four of the aforesaid tenants only being
excepted from the rent of nuts. Price of nuts as above. Sum of nuts, two and a
half quarters and one strike. Sum in money 43s 9d of whom four score and five
shall be harrowing at Lent according to the size of his holding, that is, for
each acre of his own land a 1/2d worth of harrowing. Those works are extended
at 29s 4d. They ought to be talliated and given pannage as above. The sum of £1
10s 1d. There are there three tenants in waste places called Arkeners and
Swenekelis, holding ten acres of land, an paying 10s a
year and giving nuts worth 18d. The harrowing is extended at 5d. They are serfs
as the aforesaid ones of Farndale. Sum 11s 11d.’
This would mean that on average each ‘native’ paid 8s 7d rent
and that if the rent per acre was the same as in 1276 (See FAR00017),
then each tenant had 8.5 acres which would mean about 66 farmers in the dale
in 1282.
(Inquisitions
Post Mortem)
Yorkshire Archaeological Record Series, Volume 12 Yorkshire
inquisitions of the reigns of Henry III and Edward I (1241-83), vol i, ed
William Brown, 1892, page 167 to 168.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 2, Edward I, 1272
– 1291, page 259:
York.
Extent, Tuesday the eve of the Annunciation, 10 Edw I. Kerkeby
Moresheved. The Manor (full extent given with names
of tenants), including the park a league in circuit with 140 deer (ferarum), a wood called Westwode
a league in length, a messuage and great close in Braunsdale held by Nicholas
son of Robert Nussuant rendering an arrow at Easter,
rents of nuts and woodhens, ‘gersume’, marchet and the tenth pig, a massuage
called La Wodehouse, waste places called Coteflat, Loftischo, Godefreeruding, Harlonde, and beneath Gilemore
Clif, dales called Farndale and Bransdale, and waste places called Arkeners and Sweneklis, held of
Roger de Munbray.
The Regnal Year
10 Edward I is 1282 - https://www.justcite.com/kb/search-technology/regnal-years/
