1279 - Robert Hode juror for Wark in Northumberland

Record
Date	1279
Topic	Robert Hode juror for Wark in Northumberland

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Wark on Tweed.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-05.

Record

[1279:]
VILLATA DE WERK. Rogerus le Pestur, ballivus, juratus.
Robertus Hode, jur'.

[IRHB translation:]
Vill of Wark. Roger Pestur, bailiff, sworn.
Robert Hode, jur[or].

Source notes

The year is 7 Edward I, i.e. 20 November 1278 to 19 Nov. 1279.

IRHB comments

There are two Warks in Northumberland: Wark on Tweed and Wark on Tyne. Two of Robert Hode's co-jurors are surnamed "de Pressefenne", and there is a place named Pressen just 3 km SSW of Wark on Tweed, so the latter is most probably the locality intended.

Lists

• Not included in Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

• Page, William, ed. Three Early Assize Rolls for the County of Northumberland, Sæc. XIII. (The Publications of the Surtees Society, vol. LXXXVIII) (Durham, 1891), p. 395.

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