John Farndale
c 1365 to c 1450
Party
to a major livestock haul
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c1365 to c1450 John took poaching to a new scale when he was involved in a
significant cattle and horse rustling expedition in 1384 |
1365
Perhaps he was
born in about 1365. If he was 19 at the time of the first event.
There appears to have been a significant cattle and horse rustling
expedition in 1384 involving John Farndale.
Calendar of Patent Rolls,1381-1385,
8 Richard III Part I – page 507 and 508: ‘On
10 Dec 1384, At Westminster. Commission of Oyer and Terminer. John Farndale
and others broke their close, houses and hedges at Wittonstalle
and Fayrhils, Co Northumberland and seized 30
horses, 20 mares, 100 oxen and 100 cowes valued at
£200 and carried them off with goods and chattels, assaulted his men,
servants and tenants and so threatened them that they left his service. For 13s
4d paid the hanaper.’
Whittonstall
(Calendar
of Patent Rolls)
1385
On 21 Aug 1385 at Durham. Commission of Oyer and Terminer….John Farndale,
and others broke their close, houses and hedges at Wittonstalle
and Fayrhils, Co Northumberland.’
(Calendar of Patent Rolls,
9 Richard II, page 80).
1390
On 15 Dec 1390 at Westminster. Commission to Robert Burgilon, John
Farndale, William Palmer and Sheriff of Salop to enquire touching
dilapidations and waste in alien Priory of Abberbury,
otherwise called New Abbey (Nova Abbia) by Abberbury
by Geoffrey Stafford, Canon of Rounton, late farmer
thereof.’
This was probably
John’s father.
1445
‘On 2
May 1445 at Westminster…..for not appearing before William Babynton and his fellows when impleaded with
Richard Coke of Cokewald, Co York…. Lawrence Hoggeson of Farndale and John Farndale of Stillyngton Co Durham, wright, to answer Thomas Bishop
of Durham touching trespass.’
Although the details fit this John he might have
been 80 years old, so this last record may have been someone else.
1450
If he lived to
1450, and all the above entries are indeed the same John Farndale, he would
have lived to 85.