The Medieval
Inhabitants of Farndale
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Perhaps
the first female member of the family who can be identified.
1278
Alice might have been born in about 1278 in
Farndale, the daughter of Roger the Miller (FAR00013A).
A number of local folk had taken
draught beasts into Pickering Forest in the reign of Edward III in 1310 or
1311, where the draught animals were forbidden to wander. Some pasturages were reserved for the use of the King where there
was no right in common and here, cattle were agisted
at a fixed price, to be paid to the bailiff. These sums were collected by the
agisters, of whom there were two in each ward, men of substance it seems by
their assessments in the Lay Subsidies.
Not the least of the profits
derived from the possession of a forest was that arising from the agistment of
cattle in waste grounds. (The Duchy of Lancaster Records, from the North Riding
Record Society, The Honour and Forest of Pickering, Edited by Robert
Bell Turton, Volume IV, 1897, page xxvii).
There
was a lengthy list of those individuals
from Farndale found by the agisters in about 1310 with their cattle in the
forests. Thomas Wake, the Lord of Liddell, whose tenants they were, said the
price had already been paid and the tenants should be discharged of the matter.
Amongst those fined were Alice (FAR00028A)
daughter of Roger (FAR00013A)
had one cow, worth 3s agisted (North
Riding Records Yorks Volume III,
The Honour and Forest of Pickering, 1894, Edited Robert Bell Turton, page 61, The Great Cowcher of the Duchy of
Lancaster, The National Archives, DL42/1 Folio 273, 273v, DL
42/1/23/U64 folios 273 to 274v).
Alice might have died by abo0ut 1340.