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Short title: Hare v Welbye. Plaintiff(s): Nicholas Hare. Defendant(s): Humfrey Welbye,...
Catalogue reference: E 134/23and24Eliz/Mich15
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This record is about the Short title: Hare v Welbye. Plaintiff(s): Nicholas Hare. Defendant(s): Humfrey Welbye,... dating from 1581 Oct 9-1581 Nov 28 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1581 Oct 9-1581 Nov 28
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Short title: Hare v Welbye.
Plaintiff(s): Nicholas Hare.
Defendant(s): Humfrey Welbye, Thomas Purye, Christopher Brond, William Swann, Gregory Tunarde, Richard Wallgate.
Subject of depositions: Holland Fen alias Swyneshed Fen, whether part of the same belongs to the manor of Frampton, and the other part to the manor of Swyneshed; whether the fenwas called "Holland Eight Hundred Fen" and whether the towns of Wyberton with Skirbecke, quarter, Frampton, Kyrkton, Allgankirke with Fosdyke, Sutterton, Wigtofte, and Swynshead be called "the Eight Hundred "; whether inhabitants of Boston have had free common.
County/place: Lincolnshire.
Date of commission: 14 June 1581.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 4 September 1581 at Donington.
Deponent(s): John Awforde; John Lockton (2); Geoffrey Preston; John Mettcalfe; John Margerye; Nicholas Rasor; George Groby; John Knight; Geoffrey Parker; Matthew Faceby; John Pearson.
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- E 134/23&24Eliz/Mich15
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- Litigation
- Europe and Russia
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