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Short title: Fortescue v Dromant. Plaintiff(s): Sir William Fortescue. Defendant(s):...

Catalogue reference: E 134/10Jas1/East31

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This record is about the Short title: Fortescue v Dromant. Plaintiff(s): Sir William Fortescue. Defendant(s):... dating from 1612 Apr 29-1612 May 25 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/10Jas1/East31
Date
1612 Apr 29-1612 May 25
Description

Short title: Fortescue v Dromant.

Plaintiff(s): Sir William Fortescue.

Defendant(s): Roger Dromant.

Subject of depositions: Manor of Great Torrington and the grist mills, parcel thereof, granted to James Bassett by the Crown, about 2 or 3 Philip and Mary, and now in possession of plaintiff at a fee-farm rent of £29 16s 3/4d. Touching Frythelstock Mills or Dromants Mills, late of the priory of Frithelstock. Custom of "suit and service" to the grist mills. Survey.

County/place: Devon.

Date of commission: 12 February 1612.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 15 April 1612 at Great Torrington.

Deponent(s): Thomas Hutchins (2); Alexander Downe; Ralph Barnefield; William Waye (2); David Mattcott; Thomas Giles (2); Walter Vawson (2); Henry Thorne; Roger Symons; Henry Goodwin (2); John Seller.

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Open Document, Open Description
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