Folios: 314-315. County of Yorkshire. Pleas of claims of liberties and quittances...

Folios: 314-315. County of Yorkshire. Pleas of claims of liberties and quittances at Pikeryng [Pickering] before Richard de Wylughby [Willoughby], Robert de Hungerford and John de Hambury, justices itinerant assigned for pleas of the forest in the forest of Henry, earl of Lancaster, of Pikeryng [Pickering]:

The prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England: The prior claims to agist all kinds of beasts in his lands and tenements of his manor of Foukbrigg [Foulbridge] which extend on the west side of the same manor of Kerdyk as far as Derwent, and to receive the profit of the agistment at his will. And by Brother Simon le Faukener [Falconer], his fellow brother and general attorney, he says that he and all those holding the said manor, from time out of mind, agisted all beasts in the said lands and tenements by the said boundaries and received the profit of agistment at his will. And he says that the master and brothers of the order of the Knights Templar of Solomon after the time of memory were seised of the said agistment in their demesne as of fee, and they were similarly seised of the said agistment by the said boundaries and took the profit thereof as if pertaining to the said manor, and after the cancellation of the said order, when the said manor passed into the hands of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, brother of the present earl, whose heir he is, Thomas was then similarly seised of the said agistment in the said form as if pertaining to the said manor. And similarly John de Dalton, to whom Thomas had demised the said manor, was afterwards seised of the said agistment in the said form. And afterwards, when Edward II at his Parliament at Westminster in three weeks after the day of the Purification of the Blessed Mary 17 Edw II, with the assent of the prelates, earls, barons and others of his realm gathered there, by his charter, had granted and confirmed to the then prior of the hospital, his predecessor, and the brothers of the said hospital all possessions, rights, advowsons of churches, liberties, quittances and free customs, which were of the same brothers of the said order before the dissolution of the same order, by which the said manor passed into the hands of the said prior with its rights and appurtenances, the said then prior and similarly all priors of the said place, his successors, from the said time, and he similarly were seised of the said agistment in the said form as if pertaining to the said manor without any interruption, and this he is ready to verify, etc.

Thomas Wake of Lydell [Liddel]: Thomas claims to have fines in his court from straying animals from foreign woods not being agisted by the lord of the forest, taken by the ministers of the same Thomas within the metes of the barony of Midelton [Middleton], if they take them before the foresters of the lord of the forest and make any taking or attachment in them. And he says that he and all his ancestors and those holding the barony, from time out of mind, took fines in their court from these kinds of straying animals within the metes of the said barony as if pertaining to their manor of Midelton [Middleton]. And he seeks that it is inquired into, etc.

The prior of Malton: The prior claims to have his fishery in Rie [Rye] and Derewent [Derwent] from Costa [Costa Beck] as far as Alestan Bek [Allerston Beck] within the metes of the forest and to have common of pasture for 30 oxen and two bulls with their offspring of one year within these boundaries, namely in Howe in length to Kypsyk, and in width from Costa Beck as far as the river, which runs next to the houses of monks on the west side called Kekmarreis [Kekmarish], and heading towards Pikeryng [Pickering], and in a certain meadow called Edynemerssh yearly after the hay is mown and carried away until the first Friday of the month of March, and to have common of turbary within the said boundaries, except for the meadow. And he says that Henry, late king of England, granted to the canons of Malton that they should have and hold the said common pasture from the bridge of Howe as far as Kypsyk and their turves and heath in their meadows yearly to carry to their house of Malton as well and in peace, freely and justly as they held and had it on the day when Eustace son of John was alive and dead, who gave the said common of pasture and turbary to them, by the charter of the same Eustace, which he produces here and bears it witness to this. The same king also granted to them the said fishery in Rye and Derwent in free and perpetual alms with all its other liberties and free customs, just as royal power could more freely grant it to any church, by charter of the same king, which he produces here and it bears witness to this. And he says that, whereas a controversy was moved before the late King Henry between the then monks of Rievall' [Rievaulx] and the said canons concerning the said pasture by prayer and grant of the same king, it was ended by an amicable agreement, namely that the said monks granted to the said canons that they should have the said 30 oxen in their said pasture by the said boundaries in the waste below Pickering forever, by which they were to cultivate their land of Malton, and two bulls and 30 cows, the calves of which, when they were one year old, will be removed from the said pasture. And similarly the same monks granted that the said canons were to have the said turves within the said boundaries, except for the meadow, sufficient for their own uses, by deed of the same King Henry indented between the said monks and canons, which he produces here and it bears witness to this. And he says that, by virtue of the said charters, the said canons, always from the time of the completion of the same, had the said fishery and similarly common of pasture and the said turves, except for the meadow, and he similarly is seised thereof always from the said time without any interruption, and this he is prepared to verify, etc.

Held on: Monday next after Michaelmas 8 Edw III.