Short title: Duke of Somerset v Porter. Plaintiff(s): Charles Duke of Sumersett and...

Short title: Duke of Somerset v Porter.

Plaintiff(s): Charles Duke of Sumersett and his wife Elizabeth Dutchesse of Sumersett, John Patteson.

Defendant(s): Joseph Porter, Cuthbert Steele, Anthony Stamper, John Lawrence, Thomas Rooke, Hugh Wilson, the younger, John Smith, Christopher Hodgson, Anthony Turner, Robert Wood, Thomas Brough, John Alne, Mungo Tiffin.

Subject of depositions: Manor of Boulton, in Cumberland, and the water corn-milne belonging. Touching the custom of "suit and service" to the mill (i.e. grinding corn). Also touching the liability of tenants in that part of the manor called Bolton Wood who were exempted from "suit and service" custom "to pay or deliver to the now complts. or any former lord of said manor or their lessees or farmers any moulture, haver, or oates." [A former suit of Algernon Earl of Northumberland v. Thomas Rooke, Anthony Turner, and others, for refusing to pay such "moulture, haver, or oates" is mentioned].

County/place: Cumberland.

Date of commission: 8 July 1685.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 23 September 1685 at Bolton Wood.

Deponent(s): Michael Crosby; William Tiffin; Anthony Blenkinsopp; John Airay; John Bowes; William Porter; Anthony Turner; John Barn.