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Short title: Petersfield v Heydon. Plaintiff(s): Robert Petersfield. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/38Eliz/East4
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- E 134/38Eliz/East4
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1596 Apr 28-1596 May 24
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Short title: Petersfield v Heydon.
Plaintiff(s): Robert Petersfield.
Defendant(s): William Heydon, clerk.
Subject of depositions: Tithes of lands called Trenhorne and Crogwornell, in the parish of Lawanicke and the vicarage of Lawanicke; whether the tithes of the lands belonged to the late priory of Launceston (Cornwall). [Sir John Waye,sometime vicar of Lawanicke, George Joliffe, ditto. Anthony Wills, and Richard Lytheby, farmers of the tithe, are mentioned].
County/place: Cornwall.
Date of commission: 12 February 1596.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 15 April 1596 at Launceston.
Deponent(s): Thomas Joll (2); John Blighe; Nicholas Tregodicke; John Weeks; John Hawke (2); Gregory Fryggens; John Goodman; Patron Gyst (2); William Bull; Sybly Bennett (2); John Wilmott; John Hobbe; John Hawkyn.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Litigation
- Tithes
- Farming
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