De Willelmo de Farndale
c 1255 to c 1325
FAR000013
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1255
Say
age 46 at the time he paid tax in Danby, then he was born about 1265. He might
have been one of the sons of Nicholas de Farndale (FAR00006).
1280
In
1280, five individuals of Farndale were indicted for poaching and paid bail, or
had bail paid for them by their families. 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, bail from Nicholas de Farndale, 2s from William
the Smith of Farndale, 3s 4d from John the shepherd of Farndale, and 3s 4d
from Alan the son of Nicholas de Farndale.
This
suggests that he lived in Farndale,
where he became a smith, and was involved in a poaching offence when he was
about 25.
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.
1285
His
son may have been William of Farndale (FAR00037),
born in about 1285, who later became William, the Smith of Farndale.
1301
De Willelmo de Farndale, living at Danby paid a tax of 3s in 1301 (Lay Subsidy)
From the
Subsidy: Wapentake of Langbaurgh, Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 30 Ed. I (1301).
Originally published by Yorkshire Archeological Society, [s.l.],
1897. 'The Subsidy: Wapentake of Langbaurgh', in Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 30 Ed. I
(1301), ed. William Brown ([s.l.], 1897), pp. 26-45. See also British History Online.
Wapentagium de Langeberyghe
Daneby
De Willelmo de Farendale iijs
See
more detail about the 1301 Subsidy.
https://archive.org/details/YASRS021/page/26/mode/2up
Danby is a Scandinavian
place name, meaning the Dane’s Farm.
1325
If he
lived four score years and ten, then he might have lived to 1325.