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Short title: Skeffington v Mitton. Plaintiff(s): William Skeffington. Defendant(s):...

Catalogue reference: E 134/3Jas1/Hil3

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This record is about the Short title: Skeffington v Mitton. Plaintiff(s): William Skeffington. Defendant(s):... dating from 1606 Jan 23-1606 Feb 12 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/Hil3
Date
1606 Jan 23-1606 Feb 12
Description

Short title: Skeffington v Mitton.

Plaintiff(s): William Skeffington.

Defendant(s): Edward Mitton and others.

Subject of depositions: Two parcels of land called "The Bents" and "Horton Meadow" otherwise "Horton Doddesmore" in Horton. Payment of tithes. Whether the said "Bents" lie in Whittington or Horton? Reference made to previous trials in the Exchequer, one between Richard Baxter and John Dale and Randoll Wyvall; and another between John Wall and John Dale and Thomas Smith, for taking distresses in Horton Meadow and The Bents aforesaid. "The Bents" left out of a survey of the lordship of Whittington? Survey. [The "Task" of the lordship of Tamhorn is mentioned].

County/place: Staffordshire.

Date of commission: 12 October 1605.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 6 November 1605 at Lichfield.

Deponent(s): John Jordon; Thomas Thickens; Walter Astley; William Dawes; Francis Skeffington; John Cowper; Edward Marlowe.

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