Short title: Attorney General v Mitchell. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General at the...

Short title: Attorney General v Mitchell.

Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General at the relation of John Palmer and William Dartnall (late churchwardens) and other the parishioners (and the present churchwardens) of Warneham, in Sussex, relators.

Defendant(s): Edmund Mitchell and his wife Sara, two of the defendants.

Subject of depositions: Right and title to four small tenements or houses in the parish of Warnham (Sussex), commonly called "The Almshouses" and lands in the same parishes called "The Lake Garden." Metes and bounds. Whether the land was given or settled as a charity on the parish for the use of or benefit of the parish, and the rents, paid to the churchwardens, overseers of the poor, or other inhabitants of the parish? etc. Whether conveyed to Sir John Carryll in trust for parish? Touching the right of the churchwardens or overseers of the poor to appoint inhabitants for residents in the almshouses? Also touching lands in the parish called "Stylers" (in defendants' possession), lately belonging to John Rapley (late father of defendant Sarah), and alleged by defendants to be identical with the Site of such almshouses. Also touching an action in ejectment brought about Easter, 2 James 2. by the defendant Mitchell (as lessee of the other defendants Edmund and Sara) for the recovery of the possession of the almshouses.

County/place: Sussex.

Date of commission: 13 February 1688.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 27 April 1688 at Horsham.

Deponent(s): Francis Hersey; Edward Nightingall; Jeremy Aylward (2); William Maidman (2); Arthur Rowland; Thomas Edwards (2); Peter Holloway (2); John Borer (2); John Charman (3); Robert Steere (2); William Peter (2); Hamlet Borer (2); Thomas Edwards (2); Robert Charman (2); John Parson; Daniel Towmes alias Gumbrel; Luke Rushworth; Stephen Humfrey; George Mills; William Coe; Edward Booker; Jeremiah Turnis.