On 25th July 1225, the royal justices held an assize [a criminal court, periodically in session, held for centuries throughout England and Wales by Judges of the King's Bench] at York. When the penalties were recorded in the Michaelmas roll of the Exchequer [that is, during the first term of the judicial season], they included 32s. 6d. for the chattels of one Robert Hod, fugitive. The account was carried forward into the following year, when he had acquired the nickname of 'Hobbehod', and indicates that he had been a tenant of the archbishopric of York.