Short title: Attorney General v Colfe. Plaintiff(s): Sir James Butler. kt, Attorney...

Short title: Attorney General v Colfe.

Plaintiff(s): Sir James Butler. kt, Attorney General, to the Most Excellent Princess Queen Katherine, the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Clarendon, William Lord Viscount Brouncker, William Mountague Lord Cheife Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer, and Sir Richard Bellings, kt, surviving trustees to the same Queen.

Defendant(s): Peter Colfe, esq, and his wife Mary, sole executrix of the last will and testament of Sir Edward Greaves, bart deceased.

Subject of depositions: Forest of St Leonards held by Sir Edward Greaves, bart during his life (by lease from the Crown) and since his death by the defendants. Metes and bounds. Waste and spoil. Iron mines in the forest Value of the timber therein.

County/place: Sussex.

Date of commission: 12 February 1684.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 1 April 1684 at Horsham.

Deponent(s): Leonard Gale (2); Stephen Clowser; John Michell; Abraham Mathews; John Willett (2); James Burstow; Thomas Shawe (2); Edward Langley; John Satcher; Edward Stening; Robert Hall; John Gatford; Thomas Spurr alias Rapley; Edward Garston; John Stone; Nicholas Michell; Henry Wells; Emanuel Burgis.