Short title: Coventry v Massie. Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Coventry, kt (Attorney General),...

Short title: Coventry v Massie.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Coventry, kt (Attorney General), on His Majesty's behalf.

Defendant(s): David Massie, of Broxon, John Benyon.

Subject of depositions: Right and title of the Crown to certain tenements, in the manors of Halghton and Chirk, by reason of the recusancy of John Edwards, of Chirk. Metes and bounds of manors. Whether the tenements, are parcel of the late dissolved monastery of "Vala Crucis "? [The possessions of Thomas Massey, father of William Massey, and defendant, Sir John Middleton, kt, and Edward Ove, and a grant of the township of Halghton, made by Madoc ap Griffith, lord of Powis, to the monks of Vala Crucis, are mentioned].

County/place: Denbighshire.

Date of commission: 12 February 1622.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 23 April 1622 at Lower Chirk.

Deponent(s): Gruffith Ap Rees; John Vaughan; Alexander Kyffin; Richard Hodgkis (2); John Wynne Ap Howell Ap Atha; Rees Ap Ievan (2); Edward Lloid; William Vaughan; John Cleaton; Jane Verch John; Ievan Ap Rees; David Ap Robert; John Ap Ievan Ap John Lloyd; Edward Ap William Ap Hugh.