Short title: Clere v Dix. Plaintiff(s): Sir Edward Clere. of Blickling (Norfolk)....

Short title: Clere v Dix.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Edward Clere. of Blickling (Norfolk).

Defendant(s): William Dix.

Subject of depositions: Lands in Thetford, Westwick, Elvedon, Downham, Lopham, Farfield, Keningall, the late college of Rushford, Tenden Manor, Snarshill Warren, the abbey of Bury, the manors of Halwick, Linford, and Croxton, St Edmund's Pole, near Stanton, tithes of Thetford, Halwick, Westwick, and Norwick; lands in Coxford, Kilverston, Hockham, Blackdon, "Maisondieu called Brayes" the late monasteries of nuns and canons in Thetford, the late priory of Carrow, and in Blickling (Norfolk and Suffolk) (including attainted and other lands). Metes and bounds. Tithes. Survey. [The names and possessions of Francis and Edward Clere (sons of plaintiff), Anne Gilbert (plaintiff's daughter), Sir Richard Fulmerston, Mr Fulmerston, Thomas Duke of Norfolk, Henry, late Earl of Surrey, Robert Brown, Phillip Earl of Arundel, John May, Robert Buxton, Robert Whitney, Frances (plaintiff's late wife), and Anne Clere (daughter of plaintiff), are mentioned].

County/place: Suffolk; Norfolk.

Date of commission: 23 June 1591.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 16 August 1591 at Thetford, Norfolk.

Deponent(s): Robert Shepard; Robert Robertson, alias Sanders; Nicholas Raynbert; Thomas Alen; Robert Coper; Henry Buller; Christopher Gaskyn; Robert Brown; John Wormeley (2); Richard Radcliffe; Thomas Turrell; Henry Wells; Thomas Bawsicke; Robert Muninge; John Smithe (2); Nicholas Hewitt.

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