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On about 24 August 1336, during the period when the Eyre of the
mid 1330s was sitting, a number of men including John (FAR00042A), son of William
the Smith of Farndale (FAR00037) took hind and calf
in Rotemir.
Under the heading, Offences committed since the commencement of
the Eyre, Roger, son of Emma, John Bordesden,
Robert Moryn, John, son of William Smith, of Farndale, Robert Stubbins
and William Bullock, about 24 August, 1336, took a hind and calf in Rowmires ; and Hugh Yeland, Ralph
Yeland, John Yeland, Thomas
Hampthwaite, William Langwath,
Peter, son of Henry Young, William of Hovingham forester of Spaunton,
William Burcy, Robert Miton, Serjeant of Normanby, and six unknown, on Monday,
15 July, 1336, came hunting in Lefehow with bows,
arrows and gazehounds, and took a calf with a black hound …
(North Riding Records Yorks, The Honour and Forest of
Pickering, 1894, Volume II at page 115, The Great Cowcher of the Duchy
of Lancaster, The National Archives, DL 42/1/35/U26, Folio 223v to 225)
"
Richard Mosyn, of that part of Rossedale which
belongs to the Abbot of S. Mary's (i.e. Rosedale West), William Troten of Spaunton, Roger del Mulne of Farndale, Robert son of Peter of Rossedale, Walter Blackhous of
Farndale, went on a Monday in January to some unknown place within the forest
and killed a soar and slew a hart with bows and
arrows." All are outlawed.
The Coucher Book, folio 224, tells how
two men, on Thursday next after the feast of S. Lucy the Virgin, went to Mulfosse, in Hartoft, and there slew one hind. How
" Thomas de Hamthwaite, Robert de
Bolton, Richard of Helmsley, John de Skipton, Robert Moryng,
Abraham Milner, Stephen Moye, and Peter son of Henry, with others unknown, on
Thursday, 7th of March, 1331, went to a place called Hamclifbek,
with two leporariis (gazehounds or greyhounds), and
belonging to John de Kilvington and Robert Spink, and with bows and arrows, and
there slew one soar and one hind and one stag, and were fined, etc."
In the same folio we have an account of how " Roger son of
Emma, John de Bordesden, Robert Moryng,
John son of William Fabri (Smith) of Farndale, Robert Stybbing, and William Bullock, about the feast of S.
Bartholomew, captured one hind and one calf at Rotemir."
How " Hugh de Yeland and John de Yeland, Thomas Hampthwait,
William de Langwath, Peter son of Henry Young,
William de Hovingham, forester of Spaunton, William
Burcy (or Curcy), Robert de Miton, sergeant of
Normanby, and six others unknown, captured at Leasehow,
with bows and arrows and hounds, a young hart,"
and so on.
(History of the Parish of Lastingham).
It seems likely
that Rotemir is a place around Farndale, but it is
possible it is a reference to Redmire, west of
Leyburn.
It
may be interpreted as a place called Rutmoor and another
record suggests it was heard with a number of incidents:
·
One deer and one
calf were taken at Rutmoor;
·
One deer calf
with one black dog of Thomas de Hamptwhait and one
dun dog of William de Langwath, were taken at Raindale;
·
One deer was
taken at Rawcliffe;
·
One
four-year-old stag was caught at at Lesehowe with bows and arrows and greyhounds;
·
One stag with
one black dog were taken at Leshowe; and
·
One stag was
hunted at Hartoft and game was carried away.
(The Great Cowcher of the Duchy of Lancaster, The
National Archives, DL42/1 Folio 224).
There is a separate page about poaching in Pickering Forest.