Founded around 1120 to protect pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem. Estates provided revenue for their work in the Holy Land A preceptory of the Knights Templar was founded about 1152 at Temple Hirst and held until the Order’s dissolution in 1311. Samson de la Pomeray, his wife Dionise, and son John granted lands in Osgodby to the Templars. This consisted of three bovates (45 acres). Templar lands at Osgodby were copyhold to the Manor of Temple Hirst.
Copyhold Lands of the Manor of Temple Hirst
The Account of Adam de Strikeland, bailiff of the Manor of Temple Hirst Michaelmas 1325-6 shows:
Rent & Farms at Osgodby
The same to be paid for 40s 6d for rents of certain tenements of Osgodby each year in terms of Palm Sunday and St Michal in equal portions
1554 a yearly rent of 10d from the lands of the heirs of the Templars in Osgodby was granted by the Crown to the Constable family of Burton Constable There was listed a rental of the Darcy’s Temple Hirst estate in 1558.
Research at the West Yorkshire Archive Service in Morley established lands copyhold to the Manor of Temple Hirst, together with sale of land in newspaper advertisements and Deeds.
TENANTS OF COPYHOLD LAND OF MANOR OF TEMPLE HIRST IN OSGODBY
Tenants from Accounts & Rental Books
EXTRACT OF COURT ROLLS
Court Rolls identified the land copyhold of the Manor of Temple Hirst
Research found Tindall’s Farm was copyhold to the Manor of Temple Hirst (see Farms )
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