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- 1373,June 19. - -John Warde, son and heir [apparent] of Simon Warde, knight, released, to Sir Simon and Lady Joan his wife, for their lives, certain lands and tenements in Neuby-on-Youre.
1373, December 5. - Agreement between John de Hamerton and John eldest son of Sir Simon Warde, for the marriage of John Warde and Katherine daughter of John "Damerton" [i.e. de Hamerton]. Hamerton is to pay John 100 marks [£ 66, 135. 4
Johnde Hamerton, esq., and his wife, paid 20;. Poll Tax at Green Hammerton in 1378-9. 5
1378-9, January 27. - John son of Sir Simon Ward gave a power of attorney to John llketon of Hamerton and Richard de Sunygges, to enter and receive the manors of Gevendale, Neuby-on-Yore and Hesseholt, and the vill of Gysselay, with the advowson of the church there, after the death of Sir Simon, his father, whenever it should happen." The vill of Guiseley would include the Baildon property.
1385, Michaelmas Term. - Sir John Warde sued Joan widow of Sir Simon Warde [his father] tor the return of 12 charters, which she detained from him. (my note: Joan would be Sir John's stepmother)
1385, Michaelmas Term. - John Warde, chivaler, complained of William Raynson of Skelton, and many others, for entering his free warren at Neweby and Gyvendale, and hunting there without leave, and for taking fish, value /, 10, in his several fishery there, and for taking hares, coneys, pheasants and partridges in the warren.
1386, September 17. - Sir John Warde was one of the witnesses in the
celebrated Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, 1385 to 1390. He stated that he was aged 46 years and more; that he had seen Sir Richard le Scrope armed in the arms, azure, a bend or, in Scotland, in the expedition of the Lord of Lancaster [John of Gaunt], and in the last expedition of the King into Scotland; that he was for half a year in the retinue of Sir William Scrope, son of Sir Richard, in Gascony, and there often saw Sir William armed in the same arms with a label; that he had a chamber in his manor house called Gyvendale, where the arms of Scrope were set up and depicted on the wall, in which chamber were also the arms of Lord Neville, Lord Percy, Lord Clifford, and others, which had been in the said chamber for one hundred and sixty years, as his father had told him.
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