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Short title: Attorney General v Stephenson. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/31Eliz/East4
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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Stephenson. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General. Defendant(s):... dating from 1589 Apr 16-1589 May 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 Apr 16-1589 May 12
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Short title: Attorney General v Stephenson.
Plaintiff(s): Attorney General.
Defendant(s): Henry Stephenson, Robert Dune, Thomas Wilcockson, Stephen Baddesley, William Riley, Joan Ward.
Subject of depositions: Right and title to certain houses and lands in (Smalley?), the parish church of Derley, and the north and south parsonages there (Derbyshire), in thepatronage of the Dean of Lincoln; also touching the parsonage of Morley (Derbyshire); whether the lands belonged to one of the parsonages or were given for "superstitious uses" i.e. to find a priest for a chantry in the church. [The names and possessions of William Bagshaw and William Pollerd, clerks, parsons of said church, Robert Donnes, Thomas Donnes, Henry Ward, John Bradley, John Hunt, Denago Taylor, John Ball, Robert Barker, and the widow Taylor, are mentioned].
County/place: Derbyshire; Lincolnshire.
Date of commission: 12 February 1589.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 11 April 1589 at Derby.
Deponent(s): Thomas Barker; Ottiwell Willemot; William Bullocke; Richard Wilgoose; John Eyre; Richard Sandham; John Godkin.
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- Litigation
- Religions
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