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Short title: Ashe v Crofte. Plaintiff(s): Christopher Ashe. Defendant(s): Christopher...

Catalogue reference: E 134/3Jas1/East23

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This record is about the Short title: Ashe v Crofte. Plaintiff(s): Christopher Ashe. Defendant(s): Christopher... dating from 1605 Apr 17-1605 May 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 134/3Jas1/East23
Date
1605 Apr 17-1605 May 13
Description

Short title: Ashe v Crofte.

Plaintiff(s): Christopher Ashe.

Defendant(s): Christopher Crofte, Robert Hobson, Thomas Tennant, Philip Clarkson, Ralph Robinson, Jenkin Spence, Thomas Gladstone, Francis Foster, John Lobley, Widow Holdsworth, Percival Langdale, John Watterson, John Wray, and others.

Subject of depositions: Manor and town of Middleham, and two water corn-mills (Middleham Mill and Owlsay Mill) belonging to the King; also a mill lately erected by Robert Lofthous and another, called "Cora Mill." Touching taking away of "sute and sucken" from the King's mills by defendants. Survey.

County/place: Yorkshire.

Date of commission: 12 February 1605.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 14 April 1605 at Catterick Church.

Deponent(s): Henry Yates; James Buckdon; Thomas Wilson; Ralph Chatter; Christopher Watson; Richard Geldart; Thomas Hartforth; Ralph Croste; Francis Braithwait.

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