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Short title: Bennyson v Strickland. Plaintiff(s): Barnaby Bennyson, clerk. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/9Jas1/Mich29
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This record is about the Short title: Bennyson v Strickland. Plaintiff(s): Barnaby Bennyson, clerk. Defendant(s):... dating from 1611 Oct 9-1611 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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- 1611 Oct 9-1611 Nov 28
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Short title: Bennyson v Strickland.
Plaintiff(s): Barnaby Bennyson, clerk.
Defendant(s): Sir Thomas Strickland, Thomas Green, Henry Kitching, William Hodshon, Myles Tomson.
Subject of depositions: Manufacture, of cloths called"Cogware","Kendalls" and"Cartmells","Caltons" and"Frozes" bought in the county palatine in the rough, and milled, in the barony of Kendall. Touching the manor of Sysergh, and the fishing in the water of Ken, in the possession of defendant Strickland, and the fourth part of the barony of Kendal, and fishing in the water, sometime in the possession of Sir William Thwing. [Walter Strickland, defendant's father, is mentioned].
County/place: Westmorland.
Date of commission: 12 June 1611.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 8 October 1611 at Kirkby, Kendal.
Deponent(s): William Dixon; Thomas Brathwat; James Clerke; Roger Atkinson; Edward Mackereth; John Langhorne; Jarvace Syll; Thomas More; Myles Croser; Allan Chamber; John Avery.
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- Manors
- Manufacturing
- Litigation
- Fishing
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