Alan
de Farndale
c 1263
to c 1330
Alan was caught poaching in 1280.
FAR00011
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1263
Alan might have
been born in about 1263. His father was Nicholas Farndale (FAR00006).
1280
Alan son of Nicholas Farndale
(FAR00006), paid taxes to the
Eyre Court in 1280. (Say age 25 when he paid, then he was born in 1255) (Feet of Fines for the County of York, Volume
68). This fine was probably his bail for poaching – see 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 FAR00019.
There is a
separate page about poaching
in Pickering Forest.
1334
1334 was the year
of the Eyre Court. It was therefore time to catch up with the Farndale
misbehaviour of the preceding years. A mainpernor was
a person who gave a guarantee that a prisoner would attend court. Westgill is the area of Farndale around West Gill Beck
which flows down to the River Dove at Low Mill. The folk of Farndale had
clearly been out in significant numbers to engaging in poaching. The hearing
dealt with offences of some antiquity, the reference to the seventeenth regnal
year of Edward I indicating an offence that took place in 1288 to 1289. So
these records were catching up with many years of activity in the forest.
Fines,
amercements and issues of forfeitures at Pikeryng before Richard de Wylughby
[Willoughby], Robert de Hungerford and John de Hambury,
itinerant justices assigned to take the pleas of the forest of Henry, earl of
Lancaster, of Pickering … Roger, son of Gilbert de Frandale [Farndale], one of
the mainpernors of John, son of Albe,
indicted of hunting. … John Alberd, another mainpernor of the same Robert, son of Richard de Westgill, indicted of hunting. The same John Alberd, one of the mainpernors of
John, son of Richard de Westgill, indicted of
hunting. John, son of Walter, one of the mainpernors
of Robert, son of Richard de Westgill, indicted of
hunting. John le Shephirde of Farndale, one of the mainpernors of John, son of Richard de Westgill,
indicted of hunting. Alan, son of Nicholas de Farndale, one of the mainpernors of Richard, son of John de Farndale, indicted
of hunting. The same Alan, son of Nicholas de Farndale, one of the mainpernors of Adam, son of Simon the miller of Farndale,
indicted of hunting. Nicholas Laverok, one of the mainpernors of Richard, son of John de Farndale, indicted
of hunting. The same Nicholas Laverok, one of the mianpernors of Adam, son of Simon the miller, indicted of
hunting. John, son of John the miller, one of the mainpernors
of Richard, son of John the miller of Farndale, indicted of hunting. The same
John, son of John the miller, one of the mainpernors
of Adam, son of Simon the miller, indicted of hunting. William le Smyth of
Farndale, one of the mainpernors of Robert, son of
Richard de Westgill, indicted of hunting. The same
William le Smyth of Farndale, one of the mainpernors
of John, son of Richard de Westgill, indicted of
hunting. John, son of John the miller, one of the mainpernors
of Richard, son of John the miller of Farndale, indicted of hunting. The same
John, son of John the miller, one of the mainpernors
of Adam, son of Simon the miller, indicted of hunting. Nicholas Brakenthwayt, one of the mainpernors
of Richard, son of John the miller of Farndale, indicted of hunting. The same
Nicholas Brakenthwayt, one of the mainpernors
of Adam, son of Simon the miller, indicted of hunting. Alan de Braghby, one of the mainpernors
of Richard, son of John the miller of Farndale, indicted of hunting … Nicholas
de Repyngale [Rippingale],
one of the mainpernors of Richard, son of John, and
Adam, son of Simon the miller of Farndale, indicted of hunting. The same Alan
de Braghby, one of the mainpernors
of Adam, son of Simon the miller, indicted of hunting. John de Braghby, one of the mainpernors
of Richard, son of John the miller of Farndale, indicted of hunting. … Pleas of
the forest of Henry, earl of Lancaster, of Pikeryng
[Pickering], held at Pickering before Richard de Wylughby
[Willoughby], Robert de Hungerford and John de Hambury,
justices itinerant on this occasion assigned to take pleas of the said forest
in Yorkshire: People mentioned … Adam, son of Simon the miller of Farndale, and
Richard, son of John the miller: It is presented that they and three unknown
men, on Friday next after the feast of the Translation of St Thomas 17 Edw I,
came in the said forest in a place called Petroneldel,
and there took two deer. And when they had been proclaimed by the forester,
they sent away one deer, which the foresters carried to the castle of Pikeryng [Pickering], and another deer the wrongdoers
carried away with them and thereupon did their will. They do not now come, but
it is witnessed that they are staying in the country. Therefore the sheriff is
ordered to make them come … John, son of Richard de Westgil
of Farndale, and Robert, his brother: On Sunday the eve of the Nativity of St
John the Baptist 18 Edw II, they came in the said forest in a certain place
called Soterlund, with one mastiff, bows and arrows,
and took there one fawn and carried away the game with them and thereupon did
their will. They do not now come, nor were they previously attached, but it is
witnessed that they are staying in the country. Therefore the sheriff is
ordered to cause them to come.
1330
Alan might have lived to about 1330.