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Folio: 26 to 34. Short title: Tenants of Barwick-in-Elmet v Metham. Plaintiff: The...
Catalogue reference: DL 1/7/B13
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This record is about the Folio: 26 to 34. Short title: Tenants of Barwick-in-Elmet v Metham. Plaintiff: The... dating from 1532 Apr 22-1533 Apr 21 in the series Duchy of Lancaster: Court of Duchy Chamber: Pleadings. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1532 Apr 22-1533 Apr 21
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Folio: 26 to 34.
Short title: Tenants of Barwick-in-Elmet v Metham.
Plaintiff: The tenants of Barwike [Barwick-in-Elmet] and the Attorney General of the Duchy, Robert Wroth [UBP].
Defendant: Thomas Metham esq of Metham, John Scherwood, William Ellys esq of Pontefract, and others.
Subject: trespass and encroachment and enclosure of part of the common of Wynmore; map depicts church at Barwick-in-Elmet and church and houses at Thorner, enclosures, palings.
Place name: Winn Moor common, Potterton moor, Barwick in Elmet lordship (Ducatus Lancastriae spelling: Wynmore Common, Poterton More, Barwyke in Elmett lordship).
County: Yorkshire.
Document type: a list of the wrongs done to the king (paper), information, two answers, certificate, commission to take answer, replication (paper), rejoinder, depositions, map (paper, torn), report of commissioners, two commissions.
Number of documents: 14 (B13, B13a, B13b, B13c, B13d, B13e, B13f, B13g, B13h, B13j, B13k, B13l, B13m, B13n).
Regnal year: 24 Hen VIII.
Subject category: common rights; crime and wrongdoing.
Includes (as B13j) a map apparently drawn by the commissioners in the case to illustrate their report (B13l). West Riding of Yorkshire: pen-and-ink sketch map of area between Thorner and Whitkirk showing land in dispute: old enclosures, ‘The King’s Hook’, ‘Osmond’s Thyke’, Wynmore, ‘the heght way’, an old dyke, South Wood, and a boundary agreed by both parties. No scale shown. Cardinal points (east on torn part); south at the top. Pencilled additions show palings and gate to east. denoting park, Whitkirk church, the church and other buildings at Thorner, and vegetation. Incomplete notes as to relevance to the dispute of areas shown, at left. Watermark: crowned shield bearing fleur-de-lys: similar to Briquet 1754. 28 cm x 29 cm; torn at left edge.
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Duchy of Lancaster: Court of Duchy Chamber: Pleadings
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