Short title: Lord Culpeper v Austen. Plaintiff(s): Thomas Lord Culpeper. Defendant(s):...

Short title: Lord Culpeper v Austen.

Plaintiff(s): Thomas Lord Culpeper.

Defendant(s): Sir John Austen, Bart.

Subject of depositions: Plaintiff's lands called "Bromehill Salts" ( "inned and gained" from the sea by Sir Thomas Culpeper, plaintiff's grandfather), and defendant's lands called the Fresh Marsh at Bromehill (purchased by Robert Austen, defendant's late father, of the late "usurped powers ") having been forfeited for the "pretended" delinquency of John Lord Culpeper (plaintiff's father). Said lands are stated to have been granted by Queen Elizabeth, with other lands, in fee farm under the yearly rent of one hundred and twenty-two pounds four shillings payable out of the whole. Touching the proportions of the fee-farm rent to be paid by the plaintiff and defendant for their respective lands, and the relative value of such lands.

County/place: Kent.

Date of commission: 28 November 1684.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 2 February 1685 at Ashford.

Deponent(s): Humfrey Wightwicke; Sir Thomas Culpeper,Kt. (2); Thomas Trusser; Stephen Miller; Thomas Petter; Edward Martin; Edward Cullenben; Thomas Smith; John Radford; William Wenslay (2); Sir John Banckes, Bt; John Wightwicke.