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Accounts in: Short title: Hone v Medcraft. Plaintiffs: Elizabeth Hone alias Elizabeth...
Catalogue reference: C 101/558
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This record is about the Accounts in: Short title: Hone v Medcraft. Plaintiffs: Elizabeth Hone alias Elizabeth... dating from 1775-1781 in the series Chancery Masters' Account Books. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- C 101/558
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1775-1781
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Description (What the record is about)
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Accounts in:
Short title: Hone v Medcraft.
Plaintiffs: Elizabeth Hone alias Elizabeth Vane, widow, one of the executors, devisees and residuary legatees named in the will of Thomas James Selby, esq, deceased.
Defendants: Rachael Medcraft, Ellen Wells spinster, John Franklyn, Henrietta Franklyn spinster and Elizabeth Franklyn spinster, both infants by said John Franklyn their uncle and guardian, Samuel Selby, Oliver Thorne, William Lowndes, esq, Daniel Shipton clerk and Temperance Shipton his wife (late Temperance Bedford spinster), Sir Rowland Alston bart, John Lord, Richard Filkes, Attorney General and others.
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Plaintiffs: William Lowndes.
Defendants: Ellen Wells, John Franklyn, Henrietta Franklyn and Elizabeth Franklyn both infants by said John Franklyn their uncle and guardian, Sir Rowland Alston bart, Samuel Selby, Oliver Thorne, Elizabeth King, Elizabeth Hone alias Elizabeth Vane and others.
Subject: manor of Whaddon and Nash, messuage called Whaddon Hall and farms, lands, premesis and hereditaments in Whaddon and Nash, Great Harewood [Great Horwood], Little Harewood [Little Horwood], Singleborough, Totenhoe alias Tatnall [Totternhoe], Shenley, Mursley, Salden and Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.
Details: list of tenants and rents, receipts, disbursements.
Receiver: William Lowndes, esq.
Chancery Master: Edward Leeds
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Manors
- Litigation
- Children
- Farming
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10858654/
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Chancery Masters' Account Books
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