The
Inquisition of 1282 relating to Farndale
24
March 1282
FAR00020
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Settlement in
Farndale by 1282
The 1282 extent shows a considerable increase in settlement
over that of 1276. This seems to reflect a significant increase in acreage over
just six years though it is possible it might also reflect a new and up-to-date
survey used as the basis for the later document.
The Farndale rents by 1282 amounted £38 8s 8d together
with a nut rent and a few boon works. 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 14s 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 is possible 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 (FAR00017) then each
tenant had 8.5 acres which would mean about 66 farmers in the dale in 1282.
(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 246
to 251.)
(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/
