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The Inquisition Post Mortem for
Farndale 1276
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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.
The regnal year 4 Edward 1
is 1276 - 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.