Short title: Copley v Braithwaite. Plaintiff(s): John Copley and his wife Beatrice....

Short title: Copley v Braithwaite.

Plaintiff(s): John Copley and his wife Beatrice.

Defendant(s): Edward Braithwaite.

Subject of depositions: Water corn-mill in Hawkeshead, called Hawkeshead Milne, formerly belonging to Nathaniel Nicholson (grandfather of the plaintiff Beatrice), and late of Daniel Nicholson (late father of plaintiff Beatrice), to whom Beatrice and her sister Judith Carus (married to George Carus) are co-heiresses. Touching the custom of "suite and soake alias socke alias soken" to the mills (i.e. grinding corn, etc) due from the inhabitants of the townships and villages of Colthouse, Hawkeshead, Loudthwaite, Highwray, Losowray, and Tockhouses (Lancashire). [Allan Nicholson and Susan Nicholson his administratrix, Mr Ditchfield, Mr Highlord, Mr Clerke, Mr Mosse, James Braithwaite, Charles Satterthwaite, William Satterthwaite, and James Rigg, are mentioned].

County/place: Lancashire.

Date of commission: 28 November 1687.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 10 January 1688 at Hawkeshead.

Deponent(s): Margaret Forest; Elizabeth Chamney; William Satterthwaite; Elizabeth Dickson; William Brathwaite (2); William Atkinson; John Harrison; David Fleminge; Michael Grigg; John Coulton; Thomas Satterthwaite (2); Richard Forrest; John Asburne; William Stamper; Edward Sawrey; Miles Taylor; William Strickland; Oliver Partridge; Robert Johnson; Hannah Nicholson; John Birch.