A list of Ferthings, continued - Stephen Ferthyng of Pershore endowed the convent of Pershore with property in 1291. From Exchequer, Augmentation Office: Calendar of Ancient Deeds - Series B Part II, Vol.101, (List & Index Society, 1974). Another record shows that Stephanus Ferthyng gave the abbey 15 acres of land in Pershore, rent from a Brocton property, and one acre and one rod of land in Walcote. From Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem Sive Escaetarum, Vol. I, (Printed By Command Of His Majesty King George III, 1806), p. 172. - Walter Ferthing was a resident of Essex in 1295. Farthing Corner is named after him. - In 1296 Rico (Richard) Ferthyng paid 1 shilling in tax in the village of "Suthertynges". From the Sussex Record Society, Volume X, (London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, Printers, 1910), p.83. - In 1296-7 Ricardo (Richard) Ferthing held one virgate of land in the manor of Fordington, Dorsetshire for an annual rent of 50 shillings. Also at this time Alicia Ferthyng paid 12 pence as one of the holders of Ealing, Berkshire. From Ministers' Accounts of the Earldom of Cornwall 1296-1297, Vol. I, edited by L. Margaret Midgley, M.A., (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1942), 79, 141. - In 1297 Thoma (Thomas) Ferthyngg' paid a tax of 13 pence in Harpham in the parish of Burton Agnes, Yorkshire. From Yorkshire Lay Subsidy, Record Series Vol. XVI for the year 1894, edited by William Brown, B.A. (The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1894), p.135. - In 1297 Reginald Ferthyng was assessed a total of 10 shillings, 9 1/2 pence in taxes in Wrestlingworth, Bedfordshire. He owned one mare, one heifer, and two sheep. From The Publications of the Bedforshire Historical Record Society, Volume XXXIX, The Taxation of 1297, by A. T. Gaydon, (Published by the Society at Streatly near Luton Beds, 1958), p. 39. - In 1299 John Ferthyngg and William Petitwilliam were remanded pending their appeals at the Old Salisbury gaol, Wiltshire. From Wiltshire Gaol Delivery and Trailbaston Trials 1275-1306, edited by Ralph B. Pugh, (Devizes, 1978), p. 82. - Aleyn (Allen) Ferthing is memorialized with a stone floor slab located in the East Ambulatory of the Cathedral Church of St. Saviour. His name is engraved in Lombardic capitals. Dated to the 1300s, the slab is the oldest one in the cathedral. The cathedral, anciently known as St. Mary Overy, is in Southwark, London. From Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London, Vol. V, East London, p. 65. Another record shows that Alanus Ferthyngg and his wife Cristina gave Southwark a tenement in Surrey. From Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem Sive Escaetarum, Vol. I, (Printed By Command Of His Majesty King George III, 1806), p. 156. This book is two centuries old. Three years after being outlawed by King Edward I, John Ferthing and two dozen others assaulted some travelers in Yorkshire. They turned out to be the servants of the King. From Calendar of Patent Rolls (1247 to 1554). - In 1300 the Archbishop of Dublin chose William Ferthyn to be his attorney in Ireland for two years. From Calendar of Patent Rolls (1247 to 1554). - Johanne (John) Ferthing' paid 6 pence in tax in Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire in 1301. From Yorkshire Lay Subsidy, Record Series Vol. XXI for the year 1896, ed. by William Brown, B.A., (The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1897), p. 48. - Robert fferthyng was listed in Kent in 1319. From Middle English Dictionary, ed. by Hans Kurath, assoc. ed. Sherman M. Kuhn, (Ann Arbor, Mich: University of Michigan Press, 1953), p. 523. - In 1327-1328 William Ferthyng of Hilborough, Norfolk sued several people that had not paid their debts to him. From Index of Placita De Banco, Part I. Bedford to Norfolk, (London: Public Records Office; New York: Krauss Reprint Corporation, 1963), p. 304, 409. - In 1327 Rogo (Roger) Ferthing paid 6 pence in taxes in the village of Boxgrove, Sussex. From the Sussex Record Society, Volume X, p. 126. - In 1327 Robto (Robert) Ferthyng paid 6 pence in taxes in the village of Selsey, Sussex. In 1332 the same individual paid 8 pence in the same village. From the Sussex Record Society, Volume X, p. 132, 248. - William Ferthynge paid 6 shillings, 8 pence in taxes in 1332 as a resident of Martin, Wiltshire. In the same year Simon Fertynge (sic) paid 16 pence in taxes as a resident of Chisbury, Wiltshire. From The Wiltshire Tax List of 1332, ed. by D. A. Crowley, (Trowbridge, 1989), p. 12, 125. - William Foerthyng (sic) witnessed a grant at St. Mary the Greater, Wallingford, Berkshire in 1341. From Cartulary of the Medieval Archives of Christ Church, by N. Denholm-Young, (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1931), p. 153. - John Ferthynge of Selston, Nottinghamshire was listed as the administrator of Henry de Caustone's estate in 1351. From Calendar of Letter-Books of the City of London, Letter-Book F, ed. by Reginald R. Sharpe, D.C.L., ( London: John Edward Francis, 1904), p. 237. Previous Page......Next Page