The Inquisition Post Mortem for Farndale

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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 £27-5-0d, presumably for 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, 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, have been dispensed with 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), vol i, ed William Brown, 1892, page 146 to 151.

 

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The regnal year 4 Edward 1 is 1276 - https://www.justcite.com/kb/search-technology/regnal-years/

 

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(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.)

 

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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.