10 December 1384 and 21 August 1385
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10
December 1384 and 21 August 1385
There was a
significant cattle and horse rustling expedition in 1384 involving John
Farndale.
On 10
December 1384, at Westminster, a
Commission of Oyer and Terminer investigated a serious raid in which
various individuals including John Farndale (FAR00042A)
broke their close, houses and hedges at Wittonstalle
and Fayrhils, Co Northumberland and seized 30 horses,
20 mares, 100 oxen and 100 cowes valued at £200 and
carried them off with goods and chattels, assaulted his men, servants and
tenants and so threatened them that they left his service (Calendar
of Patent Rolls, 8
Richard II, Part I, pages 507 and 508).
(Calendar
of Patent Rolls)
On 21
August 1385 at Durham. Commission of Oyer and Terminer….John Farndale, and
others broke their close, houses and hedges at Wittonstalle
and Fayrhils, Co Northumberland.’
(Calendar of Patent Rolls, 9 Richard II, page 80).
Calendar
of Patent
Rolls,1381-1385, 8 Richard II
Part I – page 507 and 508: ‘On 10 Dec 1384, At Westminster. Commission of Oyer and
Terminer. John Farndale and others broke their close, houses and hedges
at Wittonstalle and Fayrhils,
Co Northumberland and seized 30 horses, 20 mares, 100 oxen and 100 cowes valued at £200 and carried them off with goods
and chattels, assaulted his men, servants and tenants and so threatened them
that they left his service. For 13s 4d paid the hanaper.’
Whittonstall
There is a separate page about poaching in Pickering Forest.