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Short title: Wright v Heath. Plaintiff(s): Margaret Wright, Richard Wright, Hugh...
Catalogue reference: E 134/37Eliz/Hil2
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This record is about the Short title: Wright v Heath. Plaintiff(s): Margaret Wright, Richard Wright, Hugh... dating from 1595 Jan 23-1595 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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- E 134/37Eliz/Hil2
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1595 Jan 23-1595 Feb 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Wright v Heath.
Plaintiff(s): Margaret Wright, Richard Wright, Hugh Wright.
Defendant(s): John Heath, Richard Kaye.
Subject of depositions: Towns of West Merrington, Middle Merrington, East Merrington, Ferry-on-the-Hill, and Hett; and particularly touching coal-pits sunk in a moor or waste ground called "Spennymoor" parcel of the late priory of St Cuthbert, Durham. Metes and bounds. Right of common of Her Majesty's tenants of Tuddoe and Whitworth on the moor. Touching the right of the Dean and Chapter of Durham to the tithes, of the moor in right of the parsonages of East Merrington and Branspeth (Durham). Customs of the manor of Branspeth, lately belonging to Charles Earl of Westmorland, attainted.
County/place: Durham.
Date of commission: commission [unspecified].
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 26 January 1595 at Durham.
Deponent(s): William Harryson; Robert Whealler; Henry Awd; John Iley; John Awd; Thomas Sherlerd; Henry Peile; William Iley; Richard Lighe; Richard Johnson; Simon Comin; Robert Lax; Thomas Hickson; William Heighinton; Robert Pereson; William Robinson; Christopher Heighington; Robert Massam.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Manors
- Litigation
- Tithes
- Coal
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3701977/
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E 134
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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