Henry de Ripley, Pickering

North Riding Records. Sub-bailiff of Pickering Forest. Named in a writ of 1334. Fined in 1348 'for having seized the goods of Sir Robert of Scarborough'. Fined in 1338 'because his dogs were annoying the Earl's deer'. 'The last complaint of the petition was against the foresters them-selves. It was a complaint which was as applicable to foresters of the King as to foresters of the Earl ; in the reigns of the Edwards the officers of the forest were they who scaled the ladder of fortune the quickest. Often strangers, like John de Monmouth, Roger de Leicester, Henry de Ripley, etc., they came, so the petition states, with nothing but their bows and arrows, and in a short time they had ousted the old families of Pickering, bought land, and settled there. http://www.archive.org/stream/honorforestofpic03turt/honorforestofpic03turt_djvu.txt