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Short title: Leeke v Eyre. Plaintiff(s): Sir Francis Leeke, the elder, kt, Sir Francis...

Catalogue reference: E 134/13Jas1/Mich3

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This record is about the Short title: Leeke v Eyre. Plaintiff(s): Sir Francis Leeke, the elder, kt, Sir Francis... dating from 1615 Oct 9-1615 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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E 134/13Jas1/Mich3
Date
1615 Oct 9-1615 Nov 28
Description

Short title: Leeke v Eyre.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Francis Leeke, the elder, kt, Sir Francis Leeke, kt and bart Roger Newton.

Defendant(s): Henry Eyre, Edward Eyre, Brian Melland, Godfrey Haslam, Robert White, Thomas Bromefield, Roger Gregory, Richard Broadbotham.

Subject of depositions: Refusal of defendants to pay to plaintiffs tithes oflead ore or lead mine gotten within the parish of Bakewell. Customs of the High Peak, and laws of the lead mines. Survey. [Lead tithe paid to the parsonage of Bakewell is mentioned].

County/place: Derbyshire.

Date of commission: 28 June 1615.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 7 August 1615 at Bakewell.

Deponent(s): Richard Atkinson (2); Thomas Thompson; Stephen Greaves; Peter Swift; Francis Burton; William Browne; William Nixxon; Robert Bradwall; Thurston Lowe; Richard Browne; John Moycock; Dennys Lache; Francis Alotson; Francis White; Richard Sheldon; Francis Keene; James Robinson; Robert Bagshawe; Francis Tallent; Robert Norman; Richard Eyre; Stephen Jackson; William Furneys; John Hancocke; Robert Greaves; Anthony Longsdon; Henry Hurst; William Greaves; Michael Heyward; Henry Hancocke; Nicholas Redferne; Henry Cowper; William Smith; William Wright; Henry Tomlinson; Otewall Newall; James Gregorie; Richard Stephenson; Thurstan Yellatt; Robert Thorpe.

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