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Short title: Thorpe v Woodcock. Plaintiff(s): Henry Thorpe. Defendant(s): Nicholas...
Catalogue reference: E 134/14Jas1/Mich18
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This record is about the Short title: Thorpe v Woodcock. Plaintiff(s): Henry Thorpe. Defendant(s): Nicholas... dating from 1616 Oct 9-1616 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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- 1616 Oct 9-1616 Nov 28
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Short title: Thorpe v Woodcock.
Plaintiff(s): Henry Thorpe.
Defendant(s): Nicholas Woodcock, George Coe, Toby Askew.
Subject of depositions: Water corn-mills belonging to the manor of Kingscliff, leased by the Crown to Sir Thomas Howard. Custom of "suit and grist" to the mills. [Toby Houghton and Henry Standish, farmers of the mills, arementioned].
County/place: Northamptonshire.
Date of commission: 19 June 1616.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 19 September 1616 at Kingscliff.
Deponent(s): John Orton; Robert Eyte; Thomas Kinge; Cecely Lord; Jonas Francis; Joan Uffington.
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- Manors
- Litigation
- Farming
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