The Inquisition Post Mortem for Farndale
1276
The Inquisition Post Mortem taken on the death of Joan de
Stuteville in 1276 which records significant information about the settlement
of Farndale by that time
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The 1276 Inquisition
The Inquisition
Post Mortem taken after the death of Lady Joan de Stuteville in 1276 reveals
settlement on a grand scale. In Farndale, bond tenants holding by acres and
paying a standard rent of 1s or 12d for each acre produced £27 5s 0d. So this
suggests a cultivated acreage of 545 acres.
In
East Bransdale, bondmen held another 141 acres paying a standard rent of 6d per
acre, but they are said to hold by cultures.
The
significance of these terms is explained in the IPM of
Joan’s Son, Baldwin Wake, taken only six years later in 1282 (see FAR00020),
where the bondmen are said to hold their land not by the bovate of land, but
by more or less. Thus standard bovate holdings, usually in the lowlands and
in some of the older settled moorland villas, had been dispensed with by 1282, in
favour of holdings of varied size rented by the acre.
Yorkshire
Archaeological Record Series, Volume 12 Yorkshire inquisitions of the reigns of
Henry III and Edward I (1241-83), Volume 1, edited by William Brown, 1892, page
146 to 151.
The
regnal year 4 Edward 1 is 1276. See https://www.justcite.com/kb/search-technology/regnal-years/.
(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.)
‘Tenants in bondage, holding by acres, who pay £27 5s,
that is 12d per acre. Seven cottars in Farndale, pay 15s 8d, tenants in Duthenwayt in a certain plot in the moor, holding
by plots 32s per year.’
This gives some idea of the number of people earning enough to pay
some sort of rent in Farndale in 1276.
There is
more information about the Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem.