Short title: Attorney General v Fetyplace. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General and John...

Short title: Attorney General v Fetyplace.

Plaintiff(s): Attorney General and John Halliwell.

Defendant(s): Bezil alias Bessells (Basil ?) Fetyplace, executor of the last will of Sir John Fetyplace.

Subject of depositions: Goods and chattels, and last will and testament, of Sir John Fetyplace (father of defendant), Lady Jane Fetyplace his wife, and Margaret his daughter. [Grounds called Draycott Leyse, the possessions of John Lutton, esquire, the manor of Compton (Berkshire), in the tenure of Lady Englefield, the tithes of Sandford (Berkshire), the lands of Margaret Denton, grandmother of Sir John, the lands of John Fisher, the goods of Sir John in his house at Bessellislighe, William Covert, the lease held of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, of the parsonage of Sutton (Berkshire), and sale of lands to Doctor Day, Dean of Windsor, are mentioned].

County/place: Berkshire.

Date of commission: 12 February 1589.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 9 April 1589.

Deponent(s): Richard Hasely; John Figg; Richard Phillippes; John Kente; Thomas Griffith; William Stevens; John Strafford.

Topics

Manors

Litigation

Tithes

Wills and probate