Short title: Curwen v Wibergh. Plaintiff(s): Sir Henry Curwen, Thomas Salkeld, Edward...

Short title: Curwen v Wibergh.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Henry Curwen, Thomas Salkeld, Edward Stanley, and the Governors of the Grammar Schole of St Bees.

Defendant(s): Thomas Wibergh.

Subject of depositions: Manors and granges of Stamburne and Salter, and lands in Salter Wynder, Rowraye, and Kelton, late parcel of St Bees Priory, in the diocese of Carlisle and Chester, granted by Edward VI to Sir Thomas Challoner, knight, and by Phillip and Mary to the Bishop of Chester. Touching payments towards fee-farm rents. Value of such lands. For what sum did Sir Thomas Challoner sell same to Thomas Leigh? Value of lands in Roddington, and of tenements called Bearstede and Skalegill, held by Henry Sands, of Roddington, by lease from said Sir Thomas By what right the lands are held by plaintiffs? Survey. [The names of Gerard Lowther, Hew Patrickson, possessor of the tithes of Innerdall and Kinniside, parcel of St Bees, Leonard Latus, lessee of Site and cell of St Bees, Robert Grindall, lessee of the tithes of the "Law Parish" of St Bees, under Queen Elizabeth, Robert Sands (father of Henry), lessee of Rottingdon and Bearsteede tithes, pensions out of the parsonages of Workington, Harrington, and Egremont, and the churches of St Bees, Ennerdall, Loweswater, Esshdell, and Wasdell or Wasdell Head, parcel of St Bees parish, are mentioned].

County/place: Cumberland.

Date of commission: 15 June 1608.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 18 October 1608 at St Bees Abbey.

Deponent(s): John Baker; Henry Fletcher; Anthony Hardknees; Anthony Hodgson; Anthony Crosthwate; William Hardknees, clerk; Anthony Dier; Robert Thomson; John Roger; Christopher Crosthwate.