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Short title: Launsum v Gainsford. Plaintiff(s): Laurence Launsum. Defendant(s): Francis...
Catalogue reference: E 134/31Eliz/Hil3
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This record is about the Short title: Launsum v Gainsford. Plaintiff(s): Laurence Launsum. Defendant(s): Francis... dating from 1589 Jan 23-1589 Feb 12 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1589 Jan 23-1589 Feb 12
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Short title: Launsum v Gainsford.
Plaintiff(s): Laurence Launsum.
Defendant(s): Francis Gainsford.
Subject of depositions: Town of Takeley (Essex), and a manor there called Colchester Hall, lately belonging to the monastery of St John, in Colchester; and the parsonage of Takely. Tithes. [The names and possessions of Robert Thorpe, tithes of the manor of Bassingbornes, John Gainsford. Tithes of the manor of Wallinghall, Thomas Miller, Robert Miller, William Brewer, Richard Gyet, a lease of the parsonage of Takeley, made by the Bishop of London to Mr Rastall and Mr Rogers, are mentioned].
County/place: Essex.
Date of commission: 28 November 1588.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 11 December 1588 at Byrchanger.
Deponent(s): Thomas Wyberd (2).
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- Manors
- Litigation
- Religions
- Tithes
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