I am researching the history of my surname, Poyner. The earliest mention is Geoffrey le Poinnur de panfeld in Essex in the year 1220.
The latin phrase from the Curia Regis rolls is as follows:
Gaudfridus le Poinnur de Panfeld, appellatus de roberia et latrocinio
per Willelum Smalwud, subtraxit se et non potest inveniri. Et ideo interrogetu et utlagetur in comitatu. Preceptum est vicecomiti, et quod inquirat de catallis ejus et si fuit in decenna.
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