Short title: Townsend v Master of the Gonvill and Caius College. Plaintiff(s): John...

Short title: Townsend v Master of the Gonvill and Caius College.

Plaintiff(s): John Townsend, John Sanders, and the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses of the town of Cambridge.

Defendant(s): The master, fellows, and schollars of Gonvill and Caius Colledge, in the University of Cambridge, Richard Drury, William Symons.

Subject of depositions: Water mills situate in the precincts of the town of Cambridge called the King's Mill, the Bishop's Mill, and Newnham Mills. Charge against defendant Symons of continuing "grinding at Newnhall Mill after notice by blowing a horne by the complaintant's tenant or occupier (of King's Mill) to leave off working" and for setting to his "worke at Newnham Mills, before he had notice given him by blowing of a horne" and of "grinding with both mill wheels together" etc.

County/place: Cambridgeshire.

Date of commission: 5 July 1682.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 10 October 1682.

Deponent(s): Thomas Linford; Elizabeth Seamor; Richard Eastwood; John Desborow; Stephen Northfeild; John Bonner; Joseph Nightingale; John Lister; Richard Harding; Richard Thurloe; William Smith; Thomas Boughtell; Francis Allen; Clemence Cooke; Edward Witt; John Lawford; Richard Hasland; John Blackwell; Edward Morris; John Bowes; John Cheesman; Christopher Chapman; William Rutter; Thomas Moule; Alice Rutter; William Greene.