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1321 Roger de Pedwardine confirmed the manor of Saleby and Thoresthorpe to to his tenant John Hardreshull. [1]

In 1321 Roger [de Pedwardine] made over the manor of Burton, with all his knights fees in the county of Lincoln, to his son Roger, probably on the latter's marriage. Saleby was one of these fees, and on this occasion he wrote to John de Hardreshull :—

"To our beloved and faithful John de Hardreshull, lord of the manor of Saleby and Thoresthorpe, Roger, son of Walter de Pedwardine, knight greeting. I have granted to my dear son Roger de Pedwardine and his heirs the manor of Burton near Helpingham together with the knights fees which I had in the county of Lincoln together with your services to me for the manor of Saleby and Thoresthorpe."

1331 Petitioners John de Hardeshull; Edmund de Appelby; Robert Folejaumbe son of Richard Folejaumbe; John Folejaumbe of Beard; John othe Grene (Green) of Buxton; Stephen de Edenesoure (Edensor); Walter James knave Coterel (servant of James Coterel); James Coterel; Nicholas Colpeper (Culpepper); Henry Eweyn (Ewin) requested charters for the trespasses, etc., committed in the persecution of Hugh le Despenser, according to the statute. [2]

1347 Robert de Stoteville of Covingham sued John Chaddeworthe of Little Carleton, John de Hardeshulle, knight, and others claiming they had disseised Robert of his free tenement and 26s. 8d. rent in Little Carleton and committed a violent rescue of animals distrained by Robert for the arrears of rent. John de Hardreshull responded that he is the tenant of 3 acres of the land from which Robert claims the said rent, that he holds it jointly with his wife Maud and that he held it on the day on which the writ was issued, 20 June 21 Edward III [1347], which certain Maud is named in the writ. The date of the assize was Monday next after the feast of St Peter in Chains in 21 Edward III [6 August 1347]. The jury found that John de Hardreshull held of Robert and awarded damages to Robert. [3] [4]


Footnotes:

[1] Reginald C. Dudding, History of the Manor and Parish of Saleby with Thoresthorpe in the County of Lincoln (Horncastle: W. K. Morton & Sons, 1922), 7, [HathiTrust].

[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, SC 8/341/16078, [UKNationalArchives].

[3] Assize Rolls, JUST1, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, 21-22 Edward III, no. 1439, membrane 7d, abstracted by Matt Tompkins in an SGM post 12 August 2015, [AALTImage].

[4] Assize Rolls, JUST1, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, 21-22 Edward III, no. 1439, membrane 7, which states the date of the assize, for the year see the top membrane 7 in the preceding image, [AALTImage].