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Short title: Gratwick v Covert. Plaintiff(s): Roger Gratwick. Defendant(s): Walter...
Catalogue reference: E 134/30Eliz/East8
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This record is about the Short title: Gratwick v Covert. Plaintiff(s): Roger Gratwick. Defendant(s): Walter... dating from 1588 Apr 24-1588 May 20 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/30Eliz/East8
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1588 Apr 24-1588 May 20
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Short title: Gratwick v Covert.
Plaintiff(s): Roger Gratwick.
Defendant(s): Walter Covert, Edward Carill.
Subject of depositions: Forest of St Leonards (Sussex), leased by William Dix to plaintiff. Touching the interference of defendants with plaintiff's working of iron mines and digging of coal. Value of coal, etc.
County/place: Sussex.
Date of commission: 12 February 1588.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 28 March 1588 at Horsham.
Deponent(s): Giles Moore; Philip Henlie; Richard Mychell; William Newmane; Richard Sharpe; Anthony Gardner; Richard Purton; William Whytinge; Roger Burley; Edward Booker; Robert Harrison; Richard Whitebreade; John Banyster; John Frummynge; Richard Gawthron; John Burgesse; Edward Grame [Grahame]; William Fuller; Stephen Burwell; Henry Holland; Ralph Finnes; Elizabeth Keneridge; Thomas Stempe; Lawrence Potter; Thomas Stapley; John Billingherst; John Towsonman; John Burges.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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