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[unknown cause]. Subject: estates of Simon Bennett and [Grace Bennett] his wife deceased,...
Catalogue reference: C 101/1317
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This record is about the [unknown cause]. Subject: estates of Simon Bennett and [Grace Bennett] his wife deceased,... dating from 1554-1688 in the series Chancery Masters' Account Books. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1554-1688
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[unknown cause].
Subject: estates of Simon Bennett and [Grace Bennett] his wife deceased, now of Frances [Cecil] Countess of Salisbury and James Cecil Earl of Salisbury her son and John Bennett, esq and Grace Bennett his wife including manors and lordships of Shelton and Cotham, Nottinghamshire; manors and lordships of Calverton, Beachampton and Stockholt in Okeley, Buckinghamshire; manors and lordships of Salton, Edston [Edstone], Brawby and Baurgh [Great Barugh], Yorkshire; manors and lordships of Pebworth and Broadmarston, Gloucestershire and manor and lordship of Sherfield in the counties of Hampshire and Surrey, Houses and lands is St Albans, Hertfordshire; messuages and lands in Stepney, St Pancras and St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex, houses in the Old Jewry, London; messuages and lands in Passingham and Denshanger [Deanshanger], Northamptonshire, manors and lordships of Overseale and Netherseale, Leicestershire and lands in Staffordshire.
Details: list of deeds relating to the estates that were found at Calverton House, 16th September 1694.
this should be with Chancery Masters Exhibits (C 108-116)
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- Manors
- Litigation
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