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A serious armed robbery |
Thomas Wolthwayte of Farndale 2 May 1398
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Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II, 1396 to
1399, 21 Richard II Part III, 1398, page 365:
‘May 2, At Westminster. Commission of Oyer and Terminer to Henry de Percy,
earl of Northumberland, John Depeden, knight, Thomas Colvyle the elder, knight, John Markham, William Gascoigne,
Richard de Norton, John de Burgh, William de Nenson,
and Miles de Stapilton, on complaint by High
Gascoigne, parson of Staynegreve, that Peter de Clay,
son of John de Clay of Fadmore, Richard de Thornton
of Neuton, Thomas Wolthwayt of Farnedale,
William Irpe, John de Bolton, ‘coseur’,
Robert de Thornton of Neuton, John del Clay of Fadmore, Richard del Clay, Richard Candy, Thomas de
Crathorne the elder, Adam Helmeslay, and other armed
malefactors broke his close and houses at Steingreve,
assaulted him, fished in his several fishery there, and took away his fish
and goods and chattels to the value of 200 marks as well as 1000 marks in money,
and assaulted his men and servants. For 4 marks paid in the hanaper.’
