Folios: 193-193v. County of Yorkshire. Articles concerning the Earl Marshal [Roger...

Folios: 193-193v. County of Yorkshire. Articles concerning the Earl Marshal [Roger Bigod] for the bailiwick of the forest of Pikering [Pickering]: Articles to be shown to the Earl Marshal about the custody of his bailiwick of Pikering [Pickering], by which his bailiwick was seised into the hands of the king.

First of all, the Earl Marshal, who ought to be forester of the fee in the forest of Pikering [Pickering], says that he ought not to be held to answer about his custody there, unless before the king or his justices itinerant of the forest concerning any trespasses of his custody.

It was found by the verderer and forester and all ministers of the forest that the custody of the earl was not destroyed from hunting by Peter de Moligton [Mollington], steward of the earl in that forest, and by foresters placed by the earl and the steward.

It was found by all the said ministers before the justices that a certain purpresture was made by the steward at Stayntuait in the forest of Edmund, brother of the king, and rented, having been placed in an enclosure, whereof the profit comes to the earl.

It is found by the same and before the justices that the steward made a certain purpresture in Edmund's demesne at Leyntoftes in a certain place called Somersholm and enclosed and caused it to built upon and rented at 10s a year, whereof the earl received the profit and that farm from the past 9 years.

It is found that, whereas the earl ought not to have anything in the hay of Schalleby [Scalby], except escapes of beasts not agisted in the same hay by the bailiffs of the said Edmund, and marshy bracken in winter, the earl's foresters occupied the herbage that was mowed by turns, and agistment in part, and the windfallen wood of oaks, and part of the underwood in Langedon not pertaining to the earl, to be sold and paid to the earl for having the bailiwicks and custodies in Edmund's forest in the said hay and in Langedon in the custody of the earl.

The earl is convicted of the said excesses before the said justices by Thomas de Ebreston [Ebberston], who is an attorney of the earl in that eyre and remains still to be impleaded and convicted about certain things, as it is believed. And therefore the bailiwick of the earl was taken into the king's hands firstly.

The regarders of the forest of Pikering [Pickering] presented before the justices that they found in the earl's custody 4,060 roots of oaks from oaks felled in the said custody, for which the earl ought to answer, where the earl did not have a warrant except for 200 in addition to underwood, which the earl's steward and foresters of the same man sold. By this reason and others, the bailiwick of the earl is taken into the hands of the king again by the justices.

Edmund seeks that the earl is not to have a writ of the court by false suggestions, as he had before, about having his seisin again against the consideration of the justices, founded according to the customs and assize of the forest.