Short title: Viscount Erwyn v Earl of Mulgrave. Plaintiff(s): Edward Lord Viscount...

Short title: Viscount Erwyn v Earl of Mulgrave.

Plaintiff(s): Edward Lord Viscount Erwyn, Sir Anthony Abdy, bart John Harvey, William Marwood, Mark Vanvalkenburgh, Robert Gosline, John Singleton.

Defendant(s): The Rt Hon John Earl of Mulgrave, Robert Ryther the elder, James Gardner, Doctor of Law, Robert Medley, Robert Ryther, the younger, William Sampson, and others.

Subject of depositions: "Manor of Epworth, and the commons, low grounds, and waste grounds within the same improved and dreyned by Sir Cornelius Vermuden and his participants." Touching "the 7,400 acres, or such part thereof as lies within said manor, which were allotted to the King (Charles 1) and Sir Cornelius and his participants for the King's interest and share therein, and the improver's charge for dreyning and improveinge the whole" etc. Touching the award of Sir John Banks, kt, the Attordey-General, to his late Majesty Charles the First, made concerning the draining of the marshes and waste grounds in manor, and the decree of the Court of Exchequer made for the confirmation of the award.

County/place: Yorkshire; Lincolnshire.

Date of commission: 15 June 1687.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 24 August 1687 at Hatfield.

Deponent(s): Robert Bladworth; Richard Gibson (2); James Clarke (2); George Littlewood; Anne Aukeland; Isabel Smith; John Demoleine (2); Thomas Aukeland; Mathew Faram; Edward Theaker William Crescy; German Perkin; Thomas Read (2); Francis Hutton; Richard Isle; Charles Tompson (2); William Holmrs (2); Robert Moseley (2); Robert Wood (2); William Wood; Robert Pickeringe (2); Farmory Maw (2); Robert Dobson (2); Isaac Rogers (2); Thomas Walker (2); William Wright (2); Richard Thompson; Thomas Bewry.