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Short title: St John v Style. Plaintiff(s): Oliver St John and his wife Johanna....
Catalogue reference: E 134/38and39Eliz/Mich3
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This record is about the Short title: St John v Style. Plaintiff(s): Oliver St John and his wife Johanna.... dating from 1596 Oct 9-1596 Nov 29 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1596 Oct 9-1596 Nov 29
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Short title: St John v Style.
Plaintiff(s): Oliver St John and his wife Johanna.
Defendant(s): Edward Style.
Subject of depositions: Manor of Battrychsey (Surrey), "waste ground and coppices called Penge" parcel of the manor, and a messuage called "Grovefield House" in defendant's occupation. Common of pasture for goats on such waste. [The names of messuages called `Thornton's ", "St Peter's Hall ", "Wilmot's Haw ", "Stromer's Croft ", "Katefield ", "Hemphaw" and the possessions of Agnes Holden, Richard Baldwin, Henry Kempsall, Robert Wood, John Bat, of Beckenham, Sir James Yarford, kt, and his wife Dame Elizabeth Humfrey Style, kt, and his second wife Dame Elizabeth and Nicholas Rookwood and Thomas Townsend, the husbands successively of Elizabeth are mentioned].
County/place: Surrey.
Date of commission: 30 June 1596.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 30 September 1596 at Croydon.
Deponent(s): Thomas Hamon (2); Alice Wilson; Robert Wood (2); Robert Johnson (2); Richard Johnson; Thomas Kempsoll (2); Richard Bauldwin (2); John Lowin; Agnes Holden; Henry Shepster; Arnold Kinge; Henry Kempsall.
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- E 134/38&39Eliz/Mich3
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- Manors
- Litigation
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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