Short title: Widdrington v Orby. Plaintiff(s): The Honourable Ralph Widdrington,...

Short title: Widdrington v Orby.

Plaintiff(s): The Honourable Ralph Widdrington, Thomas Windham, esquire, John Bateman, doctor in physick, Richard Marryott, esquire.

Defendant(s): Sir Thomas Orby, kt and bart John Child (an infant), by William Martin, his guardian, Abraham Bayley, Carolus Berridge, Henry Cherrington, Susannah Bromfeild, William Bird and his wife Hannah, William Holden and Jane his wife, William Cherrington and John Nicholl, Henry Perne, clerk, Thomas Ashwell, William Beaver, John Allam, Josiah Burrough, Richard Williamson, William Maultby, Charles Clarke, Francis Sympkin, William Turlington, John Giles, Thomas Wyche, William Bothway, Richard Cherington, Abraham Fillingham, Richard Hamms, Elizabeth Thomson, William Dunmore, James Hampson, Hugh Wyche, Thomas Burroughs, Simon Clarke, Edward Allen, Thomas Darby (an infant), by Simon Clarke his guardian, Richard Hurne, John Allen (an infant), by Edward Allen his father and guardian, Thomas Buddie, Thomas Frisby, Susan Gates, William Thomasen, William Gibson and his wife Mary, John Raven, William Figg, Ezechiell Johnson, clk. William Ashby, John Winckeley, Simon Mason, William Kemp, Marg. Knott, John Clarke, Clement Manister, Mary Woodcock, William Burkett, Michael Belgrave, William Baguley (an infant), by Henry Perne, clk. his guardian, Susan Giles, Richard Wright, Mary Smartfoot (an infant), by the said Richard Wright her guardian, Sir Robert Sawyer, kt (Attorney General to both their late Majesties), Sir James Butler, kt, Attorney General to her Majesty Katherine the Queene Dowager, Charles Bertie, esq, Robert Beaver, Timothy Jenkinson, William Biggens, Thomas Sherman, and Augustine Cawdle.

Subject of depositions: Site and demesnes of the manor of Croyland alias Crowland (conveyed by King Charles I to his Consort Queen Henrietta Maria, with power to make leases, etc), and lands called "Aldersland and Goggisland." Whether the said Queen Dowager and her trustees, excepted out of the leases made by them of said manor to Sir Peter Killigrew and to Sir Thomas Orby (one of the defendants), the aforesaid lands called "Aldersland" and "Goggisland." Whether the inheritance of said manor was vested in King Charles 2nd, who caused the said "trustees of the late Queen Mother to assign the residue of a term of years to his Consort Queen Kathe and her trustees, and grant an additional term for 43 years or thereabouts of the said manor among others, with power to make leases for three lives or one and thirty years?" Whether said King Charles 2 demised "to his said Queen Consort's trustees the manors of Deeping (Lincolnshire) for a long term of years, as part of his said Consort's jointure, etc.?" Whether her said late Majesty Queen Henrietta Maria and her trustees demised to Edmund Windham, of Kingsford (Somerset), esq, Thomas Mayor, of London, gent, and John Chapple, of the parish of St Martin's-in-the-Fields (Middlesex), said lands called Aldersland and Goggisland? etc. Also touching a Commission issued under the seal of said Queen Henrietta Maria, about the 11th year of Charles 1 (1636), directed to Sir Thomas Hatton (her then Surveyor-General) and others, for the improvement of said grounds called Aldersland and Goggisland, and an agreement between the said Commissioners and the copyholders. Allotments of land "set out, taken, or allotted" to her Majesty or her assigns or lessees "for her Mate improvement" and allotments made to the "dreiners of Deeping Level" by Act of Parliament, out of her said Majesty's manors lying adjacent [to said level] in the counties of Lincoln and Northampton. Touching a grant purporting to be a lease (of said Aldersland and Goggisland) to the now plaintiff Widdrington and others, for 70 years. Metes and bounds. Number of acres. Inclosure, etc. Survey of said lands. [The names, etc, of Charles Bertie, esq, the youngest son of the now Earl of Lindsey, William Crane, and John Marriott, are mentioned].

County/place: Lincolnshire; Northamptonshire.

Date of commission: 12 February 1691.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 1 May 1691 at Spalding.

Deponent(s): Simon Barton (2); William Burrell (2); Robert Griffin; William Joyce (2); Thomas Palmer; Thomas Dawson; Thomas Goodbody; Thomas Thompson; William Barber; Thomas Cherrington; Richard Cherrington; George Dixon.