Folio: 195. County of Yorkshire. Responses given to the articles concerning the Earl...

Folio: 195. County of Yorkshire. Responses given to the articles concerning the Earl Marshal for the bailiwick of the forest of Pikering [Pickering]: Edmund's bailiffs rented the wood of Aylynetoftes, where the earl ought to have the herbage as his right pertaining to his said bailiwick and his said farm, and those to whom it is demised made closes and arable land throughout 100 acres, and throughout 60 acres, whereof the earl lost the herbage to his serious damage, wherefore he seeks remedy.

Edmund's said bailiffs have agisted the hay of Scalleby [Scalby], etc, to the serious damage and disinheritance of Edmund, because the wood regrew surprisingly well, and there are branches of oak, etc, which the beasts agisting there would be devastating unless they are removed.

The earl seeks a letter patent of Edmund directed to the earl's bailiffs about overseeing the same of wood, because the earl will be charged about the number of tree stumps in his bailiwick.

The earl seeks the restoration of the issues of his bailiwick at the time when it was seized into Edmund's hands, on account that, when he was convicted before the justices of the forest of Pik' [Pickering] by the ministers of that forest, the bailiwick was not seized by default of the earl or at least that those issues were allocated in the farm which the earl paid to Edmund, etc.

The earl ought to have in his wood of Levesham [Levisham] one iron forge, for which he pays 2s a year to Edmund, and mining throughout his whole bailiwick, whereupon he seeks his right to have it in peace.

Memorandum that the custody of the Earl Marshal of the forest of Pik' [Pickering] was seized into the hands of the king and of Edmund, his brother, for several reasonable causes by the justices of the forest. Wherefore the earl, suggesting to the king that the said custody was not seized, unless on account that he did not come at the first coming of the justices before them, he gained the writ of the king about having the said custody again with all issues thereupon received.

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Memorandum concerning associating any suitable man to Alexander de Kyrketon [Kirkton] in the place of Ranulph de Dacre, if that man did come to implead trespasses of the forest of Pik' [Pickering] on the morrow of St Matthew the Apostle, and it seems that John Lidegraynes, sheriff of York, is convenient for this.

Memorandum, about suing out the king's letter that the sheriff of Yorkshire should not distrain men of the said Edmund of Hoby for the farm of assarts there, which Edmund received, for the same suing out is to be done for the men of Scalleby [Scalby].

Memorandum concerning suing out a certain letter for the land of Thomas de Flixton in Scalleby [Scalby], who is outlawed for the death of Thomas Sculle of Seterington [Settrington] and the escheated land of the said Edmund, no challenge is to be made in the eyre of the justices about issues received in the meantime.