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Short title: Sumner v Lady Gerard. Plaintiff(s): George Sumner, John Crosse, Roger...

Catalogue reference: E 134/3Jas2/Mich29

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This record is about the Short title: Sumner v Lady Gerard. Plaintiff(s): George Sumner, John Crosse, Roger... dating from 1687 Oct 24-1687 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 134/3Jas2/Mich29
Date
1687 Oct 24-1687 Nov 28
Description

Short title: Sumner v Lady Gerard.

Plaintiff(s): George Sumner, John Crosse, Roger Bryers, Robert Walmsley, John Green, Thomas Caton, Thomas Wilcock, William Wilson, William Bee, Anthony Ellis, Wilding, Leonard Bee, William Kendall, Robert Thelfall, John Masco, John Walker, William Pickeringe. William Fox, William Ward, James Rigmarden, James Goose, Nicholas Baines, Richard Williamson, Thomas Bee, Christopher Saul, James Richmond, James Lyth, William Walker, Nicholas Parkinsons, Thomas Burne, Thomas Topping, Thomas Stiraker, William Carus, Thomas Poulton, Nicholas Clarkson, James Yates, Richard Sharples, Alice Clarkson, Richard Rigmarden, John Goose, Henry Greaves, Thomas Parkinson, Robert Charnock, William Green, William Curwen, Robert Clarkson, Lawrence Parkinson, Ann Best, William Hodgson, - Brand, widow, Thomas Williamson, Christopher Curtis, Thomas Procter, Edmund Gardner, Thomas Gardner, Nicholas Charnock, John Charnock, William Charnock, Thomas Bradshaw, William Gardner, Thomas Charnock, Barnaby Baines, Robert Hawthornthwaite.

Defendant(s): The Lady Elizabeth Gerard and her daughter Elizabeth Gerard (an infant), by the said Lady Elizabeth Gerard her mother and guardian, Sir Peter Collington, kt, George Hadley, John Freeman, William Freeman, and John Foche, seven of the defendants.

Subject of depositions: Manor of Nether Wyersdale, in Lancaster. Custom of tenant right. Customs of manor. Touching former suits and agreements between the lords of the manor and their tenants. [Sir Thomas Gerard, deceased, late of Gerards Bromley (Staffordshire), knight, and afterwards Lord Gerard, Gilbert Lord Gerard, deceased, son and heir of Thomas Dutton, Lord Gerard, deceased, son and heir of Gilbert Charles Lord Gerard, son and heir of Dutton Lord Gerrard, and Digby Lord Gerard, son and heir of Charles Lord Gerrard, are mentioned].

County/place: Lancashire.

Date of commission: 15 June 1687.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 21 September 1687 at Garstang.

Deponent(s): Thomas Walmsley; John Parkinson; James Pedder; Thomas Simpson; Bartholomew Baynes; Ralph Longworth (2); John Brockholes; Anthony Burne; Lawrence Cottam; Thomas White; George Jackson; William Greene (2); Alice Walker; Anne Walker; Robert Dalton; Richard Thornton; James Lucas; John Waithman; Thomas Shierson; Richard Cowband; Thomas Webster; Joshua Partington; Christopher Parker; Thomas Gardner; Thomas Atkinson; John Rigby; Robert Gardner; Richard Corles; Thomas Corles; John Charles; John Baines; John Cockshutt.

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