The Medieval
Inhabitants of Farndale
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1285
Henry of Farndale
might have been born in about 1285, the son of Hugh of Farndale (FAR00021D).
1310
A number of
local folk had taken draught beasts into Pickering Forest in the reign of
Edward III in 1310 or 1311, where the draught animals were forbidden to wander.
Some pasturages were reserved for
the use of the King where there was no right in common and here, cattle were agisted at a fixed price, to be paid to the bailiff.
These sums were collected by the agisters, of whom there were two in each ward,
men of substance it seems by their assessments in the Lay Subsidies.
Not the least of the profits
derived from the possession of a forest was that arising from the agistment of
cattle in waste grounds. (The Duchy of Lancaster Records, from the North Riding
Record Society, The Honour and Forest of Pickering, Edited by Robert
Bell Turton, Volume IV, 1897, page xxvii).
There
was a lengthy list of those individuals
from Farndale found by the agisters in about 1310 with their cattle in the
forests. Thomas Wake, the Lord of Liddell, whose tenants they were, said the
price had already been paid and the tenants should be discharged of the matter.
Amongst those fined were Henry (FAR00028B), son of Hugh of Farndale (FAR00021D) had 6 oxen, 2 bullocks and 2 beasts of
burden, worth 38s agisted (North
Riding Records Yorks Volume III,
The Honour and Forest of Pickering, 1894, Edited Robert Bell Turton, page 61, The Great Cowcher of the Duchy of
Lancaster, The National Archives, DL42/1 Folio 273, 273v, DL
42/1/23/U64 folios 273 to 274v).
1350
Henry might have died by about 1350.