Short title: Attorney General v Waller. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General (Sir John...

Short title: Attorney General v Waller.

Plaintiff(s): Attorney General (Sir John Popham).

Defendant(s): Ralph Waller, Henry Spilman, Thomas Wind, Edmund Bastard, Erasmus Spilman.

Subject of depositions: Chace called"The Rising Chace" (Norfolk), and the castle and manor of Rising, and the towns of South Wotton and Congham (Norfolk), parcel of the possessions of the late Philip Earl of Arundel, of high treason attainted. Alleged encroachment and trespass by defendants on the demesnes. Metes and bounds. Right of warren. Customs of manors. [George Girtlington and Launcelot Bell, bailiffs of Congham Manor, Edmund Chartress, Thomas Timperley, and Geoffrey Cobb, farmers of Rising Warren, Wevelinghouse, in the hamlet of Weveling, in Grimston, the manor of Morleys, in Grimston, Sir Roger Woodhouse, Humfrey Jordan, Francis Bastard, and William Heydon, are mentioned].

County/place: Norfolk.

Date of commission: 12 June 1592.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 14 September 1592 at King's Lynn.

Deponent(s): John Moore; Phillip Furnys; James Lobbye; John Ponde (2); Christopher Herberson; William Mussell; Robert Kydde; Thomas Barker; Henry Woode (2); Edmund Chartiesse; Thomas Golle (2); Humfry Basterde; John Quatheringe; Henry Herringe; William Swanton (3); Thomas Baram (2); Edmond Chartess; Francis Basterde.

Topics

Manors

Litigation

Treason and rebellion

Crime

Middle East

Farming