Folios: 221v-223v. County of Yorkshire. Pleas of the forest of Henry, earl of Lancaster,...

Folios: 221v-223v. County of Yorkshire. Pleas of the forest of Henry, earl of Lancaster, of Pikeryng [Pickering], held at Pickering before Richard de Wylughby [Willoughby], Robert de Hungerford and John de Hambury, justices itinerant on this occasion assigned to take pleas of the said forest in Yorkshire: People mentioned:

Adam Leuedy and William Haye: On Saturday next before Lent 7 Edw II, they came in the said forest, namely around Hiperle, and hunted there one deer and had and carried part of the game to the house of John the chaplain, and part to the house of Richard Haye of Hakenesse [Hackness], and thereupon did their will. They do not now come, but it is witnessed that they are staying in the country, etc.

Walter de Kyrkeby, William Tweng and William de Lofthous [Loftus]: It is presented that, at the beginning of Lent 20 Edw II, they were caught in the park of Blandeby [Blansby] with a hunting-horn, bows, arrows, one greyhound and one puppy, when they ought to have been passing between Egton and Edyngham upon the moor, in such a way that a cloud spread around them, after which they took another pathway and entered Blandeby [Blansby], being unaware and not for the sake of doing wrong. And because they are found in a suspicious place, which they ought not to have entered, without licence, therefore the mainpernors are William Malkale, Geoffrey Maucovenaunt, Nicholas son of Richard, John Bland, Roger le Pyiz, and William son of Reginald.

William de Everle: On Sunday in the close of Easter 21 Edw I, in the evening while the moon was shining, he had two greyhounds, one white and one black, within the coppice of Langhoudale by Lydeyate, and another man was with him dressed in russet, but his name is not known. Alan Goderikneve was coming to meet him, but when William him, he withdrew himself into the wood. And it is fully presented by the vill of Thornton that Richard Russell took that deer, about which an inquisition was taken, etc, and carried the game away and did his will thereupon. And afterwards it was found by an inquisition that the man dressed in russet, who kept the said greyhounds, was John de Rouceby [Roxby]. He has not now come, etc.

Richard Moryn of Rossedale [Rosedale] on the behalf of the abbot of St Mary, William Trotan of Spaunton, Roger del Mulne of Farndale, Robert, son of Peter of the same, Walter Blakhous of the same, and Ralph de Heued of the same: On Monday next after the feast of the Epiphany, they came in the forest in an unknown place with bows and arrows and killed one four-year-old buck and hunted one stag and carried away with them the game and thereupon did their will. They have not now come, etc. Therefore the sheriff is ordered to cause them to come.

John, son of Hugh Sturmy, and William, son of Ralph the miller of Loketon [Lockton]: On Wednesday on the eve of All Saints in the said year, they came in the said forest in a certain place called Rysebergh [Riseborough] with other wrongdoers, and there took two deer and carried away the game with them, and thereupon did their will. They do not now come, nor were they previously attached, etc. Therefore the sheriff is ordered to cause them to come.

William Ergom, chaplain: On Friday next after the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary 17 Edw [I], they came in the forest of Pikeryng [Pickering] in a certain place called Brumptondale [Brompton Dale], with a bow and arrows and there wounded one four-year-old stag (sourum cervi). He does not now come. Therefore the sheriff is ordered to cause him to come.

Robert Wymark of Egton: On Tuesday next before the feast of St Barnabas 19 Edw [I], they came in the said forest in Neutondale [Newtondale] in a certain place called Riccandside, and there killed one deer and the meat was found by the forester and carried to the castle of Pikeryng [Pickering]. He does not now come, but it is witnessed that he is staying in the country. Therefore the sheriff is ordered to cause him to come.

Robert Gos of Brokeseye [Broxa]: It is presented that Robert, together with other wrongdoers unknown, on Saturday on the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul in the said year, came in the said forest in a place called Londbek, and there killed one deer, which was afterwards found dead by the forester in Crosseclif. He now does not come, but it is witnessed that he is staying in the country. Therefore the sheriff is ordered to cause him to come.

John Lassels, lord of Sourby [Sowerby], John de Speton, Robert Scot, groom of the same John, and Alan, son of Ralph de Hoton: On Thursday next after the feast of St Lawrence 15 Edw II, they came in this forest in the fields of Hoton [Hutton Buscel] with four greyhounds and took there one fat stag and carried away the game. And that Geoffrey Haulay of Hutton Buscel, Alan, son of Ralph of the same, and William de Askeby, at the same time with others unknown, on Friday next before the feast of St Bartholomew 16 Edw II, came with bows and arrows in the park of Blandeby [Blansby], and killed there one fat male deer and one four-year-old male deer, and carried away that game with them. And they say that Geoffrey and Ralph are common wrongdoers in the said park. And that John de Lassels, Alan, son of Ralph de Hoton, Robert Scot, and Thomas, son of Ralph, son of Reginald de Roston, on Thursday next after the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross 15 Edw II, came with three greyhounds in the said forest in the fields of Roston towards Troucedale, and there took one deer and one deer calf and carried away the game with them. From which game Geoffrey de Hoton had the meat of the calf. They now do not come, nor were they previosuly attached, and they are staying in the country. Therefore the sheriff is ordered to cause them to come.

John de Bordesden, Robert Stybbyng, Robert Moryng, Roger, son of Emma de Roscedale [Rosedale], and William Bullok: On Tuesday next before the feast of St Botulph 10 Edw III, they came in this forest in a place called Rotymyr [Rutmoor], with bows and arrows and greyhounds and took there one deer and a fawn and carried away the game with them. They do not now come, nor were they previously attached, and they are staying in the country. Therefore the sheriff is ordered to make them come.

William Moyson junior of Hakenes [Hackness], Roger Drye and William Smyth of the same: On Thursday next after the feast of St Bartholomew 10 Edw III, they came in the forest of the abbot of Whiteby [Whitby], with bows and arrows and greyhounds, and took one stag in the river Derwent, which is the borderland of the forest, and carried away that with them and thereupon did their will. They do not now come, nor were they previously attached, but because it is found by the rolls of this instant eyre that the said wrongdoers, being convicted at another time of a trespass of hunting in this forest and afterwards being redeemed, found mainpernors for behaving well and not doing any further wrong in the said forest, and they are staying in the country. The sheriff is ordered to taken them and also their mainpernors.

Held on: Monday next after Michaelmas 8 Edw III.