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John de Farndale (FAR00016A) was
released from excommunication at Pickering Castle on 23 February 1324. This may
have related to a prior poaching offence. (The
National Archives C 85/181/61).
To
the Most Serene Prince, His Lord Edward, by the Grace of God, King of England,
Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, William by Divine permission Archbishop
of York, Primate of England, Greetings in him to serve who is to reign for
ever. We make known to Your Royal Excellency, by these presents that William de
Lede of Saxton, John of Farndale and John
Brand of Howon, our Parishioners, lately at our
ordinary invocation, according to the custom of your Realm, were bound by
sentence of greater excommunication and, contemptuous of the power of the
Church, were committed to Your Majesty’s Prison for contumacy and offences
punishable by imprisonment; and have humbly done penance to God and to the
Church, wherefore they have been deemed worthy to obtain from us in legal form
the benefit of absolution. May it therefore please Your Majesty that we
re-admit the said William, John and John to the bosom
of the Church as faithful members thereof and order their liberation from the
said prison. May God preserve you for His Church and the people.’
Given at Thorpe, next York, 9 April 1324.
There is a separate page about poaching in Pickering Forest.