Short title: Skipwith v Pickering. Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Skipwith, kt and bart...

Short title: Skipwith v Pickering.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Skipwith, kt and bart (Serjeant-at-Law).

Defendant(s): John Pickering, Elizabeth Wright, widow, William Booth, John Curtis, Langley Gayes alias Gase, William Barker.

Subject of depositions: Rectory and parish of Bardney (Lincolnshire). Touching the manor of Bardney and Bardney Dayries and Southry (of which Francis Lord Willoughby, of Parham, and William Lord Willoughby, of Parham, were successive owners). Glebe lands. Inclosures, etc. Whether defendants' lands were formerly parcel of the late abbey of Bardney, and therefore freed and discharged from the payment of tithes? [The possessions of Sir Robert Clayton and of Sir Edward Hussey, are mentioned].

County/place: Lincolnshire.

Date of commission: 13 February 1688.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 18 April 1688 at Lincoln.

Deponent(s): Henry Warrener (3); Peter Sutton; John Browne; John Sympson (3); William Stephenson; John Laythorpe; Henry Elerby; George Dickson (2); William Chapman (2); John Cumbridge (2); Henry Elarby (2); John Mowbray (2); Richard Atkin (2); John Sampson (2).