Short title: Blount v Curtis. Plaintiff(s): Richard Blount. Defendant(s): Daniel...

Short title: Blount v Curtis.

Plaintiff(s): Richard Blount.

Defendant(s): Daniel Curtis.

Subject of depositions: Manor of Pepingbery otherwise Pembery, and the lands of Great Hawkwell, Little Hawkwell, the mill called Pepingbery Mill, the glebe lands of Pepingbery, lands in Coppinge Strowche, in tenure of John Sennocke, others called Bromebridge and Culverden, in tenure of John Allen, Hider and others, lately freehold of William Wybarne, gent, leased to defendant by Queen Elizabeth, on recusancy of Wybarne. Touching agreement made, January 1602, between plaintiff and Doctor Thornborough, Bishop of Limerick, for 120l. and a nag to the bishop for procuring a lease from Queen Elizabeth, of two parts of Wybarne's lands, the particulars of the lease being signed by the Lord Treasurer, Earl of Dorset, Sir John Fortescue, and Sir John Popham, then Lord Chief Justice of England. Alleged to have been passed in defendant's name by fraud. Survey of the lands. Felling of timber, repairs, etc.

County/place: Kent.

Date of commission: 15 June 1608.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 8 September 1608 at Pepingbery, otherwise Pembery.

Deponent(s): Mathew Hartridg; John Crouch; Richard Lorkin; William Lorkin; Richard Maye; William Wybarne; Richard Johnson.