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Short title: Cecill v Webster. Plaintiff(s): Sir William Cecill, kt, Lord Burghley....

Catalogue reference: E 134/6Jas1/Mich13

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This record is about the Short title: Cecill v Webster. Plaintiff(s): Sir William Cecill, kt, Lord Burghley.... dating from 1608 Oct 10-1608 Nov 28 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
E 134/6Jas1/Mich13
Date
1608 Oct 10-1608 Nov 28
Description

Short title: Cecill v Webster.

Plaintiff(s): Sir William Cecill, kt, Lord Burghley.

Defendant(s): Henry Webster, Robert Good, Henry Gill, William Short, Rowland Poa, Stephen Lambe, James Parker, Thomas Jolly, Robert Heywood.

Subject of depositions: Town, manor, and soke of Newark-upon-Trent, and the six watercorn mills of Newark, formerly belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln, since to Edward late Earl of Rutland, after to Isabel Countess Dowager, and now to plaintiff. Touching ancient custom of "suit and grist" to the mills by the people of Newark and Northgate. Also touching condition and repair of the castle of Newark by plaintiff, with timber out of the forest of Sherwood. Metes and bounds. Customs and perambulation of the town. [The names of Mr Goodchild, tenant of the Earl, and James Whalley, are mentioned].

County/place: Nottinghamshire.

Date of commission: 15 June 1608.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 13 September 1608 at Newark-upon-Trent.

Deponent(s): Thomas Woodward; Nicholas Goddarde (2); Richard Peele; Christopher Buckles; William Rous; Robert Wrighte; Richard Rydyat; William Fenton; William Johnson; Richard Gymney, clerk; Jane Smith, alias Goodchilde; John Francklin; Edmund Walker; Robert Kitchin; Robert Butcher; Agnes Ecop; Edmund Metheringham; Richard Hearnige.

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Record URL
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Short title: Cecill v Webster. Plaintiff(s): Sir William Cecill, kt, Lord Burghley....

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