Short title: Sawyer v Huse. Plaintiff(s): Sir Robert Sawyer, kt (Attorney General)....

Short title: Sawyer v Huse.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Robert Sawyer, kt (Attorney General).

Defendant(s): Abraham Huse.

Subject of depositions: Agreement made in or about December, 3 Chas I, between His Majesty Charles the First and George Evelyn, Valentine Saunders, Paul Dewes, William Pennyman, Robert Henley, and James Morley, thethen six clerks in Chancery, that the six clerks should lend to His Majesty the sum of ten thousand pounds "or any other and what sum for the supply of His said late "Majesty's then urgent occasions" and that as a security for repayment thereof His Majesty should convey to the six clerks, or any of them, several fee-farm rents, amongst which was the fee-farm rent of £89 18s 5¼d per annum, issuing out of the manor of Thorpe (Surrey), under a proviso or upon an agreement or contract to the effect that if His late Majesty, his heirs or successors, should repay to the six clerks the ten thousand pounds, and interest thereof at 8l. per cent. per annum, "or some other interest" that then the six clerks should reconvey the rents to the King, his heirs or successors. [A paper writing signed Francis Cottington, purporting to be the copy of a warrant, dated Denmark House, the 12th day of July 1632, or thereabouts directed to the then six clerks and the then Attorney General, requiring them to convey to Sir Charles Harboard, kt [His then Majesty's surveyor-general], and Mr Fot herby, of Rickmansworth, the fee-farm rents issuing out of the several manors of The Moore, Rickmansworth, and Pinchfield, in the counties of Herts and Middlesex, is mentioned by the deponent John Fotherby, of Rickmansworth (son of Mr Fotherby aforesaid), the only witness on this file.

County/place: Hertfordshire; Surrey; Middlesex.

Date of commission: 28 November 1685.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 23 January 1686 at Rickmansworth.

Deponent(s): John Fotherly.