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Short title: Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull v Aldred. Plaintiff(s): Mayor and burgesses...

Catalogue reference: E 134/40Eliz/Hil12

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This record is about the Short title: Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull v Aldred. Plaintiff(s): Mayor and burgesses... dating from 1598 Jan 23-1598 Feb 13 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/40Eliz/Hil12
Date
1598 Jan 23-1598 Feb 13
Description

Short title: Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull v Aldred.

Plaintiff(s): Mayor and burgesses of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Defendant(s): John Aldred, Thomas Gray.

Subject of depositions: Town of Kingston-upon-Hull (paying to the Crown a fee-farm rent of £70), the town called "Sculcots" and several "welles" called "Darningham Wells" and "Julyan Well" several springs and a bridge, and the port of Kingston-upon-Hull, the customs of which amount to £3,000 yearly, and which could supply 100 mariners to the navy, if needed. Alleged diversion (by defendants) of watercourse conveyed in a sewer to the town of Kingston-on-Hull, and procured from such wells in Aulaby, in the lordship of Cottingham, by plaintiffs, by purchase of Sir Thomas Barrington and his wife Winifred. Metes and bounds of the towns, etc.

County/place: Yorkshire; Kingston-upon-Hull.

Date of commission: 28 November 1597.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 20 January 1598 at Hull.

Deponent(s): John Loggan (2); Christopher Ledgeard (2); Robert Risdin; John Seaman; Anthony Burnsell; Thomas Greene; George Smith; Mathew Brownell; Thomas Bullein; James Blades; George Cockerell.

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Record URL
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Short title: Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull v Aldred. Plaintiff(s): Mayor and burgesses...

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