Short title: Foster v Newton. Plaintiff(s): Sir John Foster, kt, William Riddell,...

Short title: Foster v Newton.

Plaintiff(s): Sir John Foster, kt, William Riddell, George Bartram.

Defendant(s): Roger Newton, the elder, Mat. Newton, John Newton, the elder, Gilbert Newton, Ralph, Christopher, Thomas and Henry Newton, Robert and Arthur Lee, John Newton, the younger, John Dobson, Christopher Suerties.

Subject of depositions: Manor or lordship of Bywell alias Bulbeck (Northumberland), and a weir or dam across the river or water of Tyne, commonly called "Bywell Dam" lately belonging to Henry Earl of Westmorland, deceased, attainted of high treason (13 Eliz), and the manor or demesnes of Stockfield Hall and Eltringham, and the water or river of Tyne from Bywell Dam downwards to Hovingham Burn (Northumberland). Right and title to the fishing of the River Tyne. [John Swinburne, of Chopwell (Durham), and Richard Hodshone, of the town of Newcastle-on-Tyne, are mentioned].

County/place: Northumberland; Durham.

Date of commission: 12 February 1599.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 23 April 1599 at Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Deponent(s): Henry Nicholson; Richard Augoode; Richard Carr; Robert Elrington; John Usher; William Asheton; Christopher Newton (2); Richard Davison; William Usher; John Dobson; Cuthbert Harrison; Edward Kente; Bartram Kent; John Ogle; John Lawson; John Thompson; Robert Johnson; Roger Newton; William Newton; William Hudspithe.