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Short title: Wharton v Bishop of Durham. Plaintiff(s): Humfrey Wharton. Defendant(s):...

Catalogue reference: E 134/36Chas2/Mich47

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This record is about the Short title: Wharton v Bishop of Durham. Plaintiff(s): Humfrey Wharton. Defendant(s):... dating from 1684 Oct 23-1684 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 134/36Chas2/Mich47
Date
1684 Oct 23-1684 Nov 28
Description

Short title: Wharton v Bishop of Durham.

Plaintiff(s): Humfrey Wharton.

Defendant(s): Nathaniel Lord Bishop of Durham, Robert Dormer, William. Blackett, merchant, Barbara Sanderson, John Westgarth, John Mowbray, Richard Mowbray, Christopher Copperthwayt.

Subject of depositions: Manors of Stanhope and Wolsingham, the forest of Weredale, and lead mines, groves, and "vaines of lead oare or ure" lying within the parishes and forest Touching the officer called "the mooreman" or "mooremaster" of the mines, said to have been represented in the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, James I, Charles I and Charles II by Francis Pilkington, Sir George Bowes, William. Bowes, Edward Suertyes, George Wythers, Humphrey Wharton, Thomas Wharton, Richard Hutton, and the plaintiff. Touching the power and authority vested in, and the execution of the office of mooremaster as regards the licensing and permitting persons to dig and get lead oare in the mines belonging to the Bishop of Durham. [See also 32 Chas II Michaelmas Number 18].

County/place: Durham.

Date of commission: [unspecified].

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 10 July 1684 at Stanhope.

Deponent(s): Mathew Smalles; William Hutchinson Marmaduke Scotte; Cuthbert Watson (2); John Feathrstonhalgh; Robert Wharton (2); Thomas Gyll; George Myres (2); Arthur Morgan; John Greensword; William Stebbard; William Bainbridge (2); John Fetherston (2); Peter Bainbridge; Marmaduke Trotter; Cuthbert Hall; George Bainbridge; John Walton; Rowland Walton; George Broomwell; Thomas Steward; William Harrison; Ralph Embirton; William Dixon; Cuthbert Hilton; Francis Carrey; Cuthbert Snow; John Cooke.

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