Short title: Ashurst v Stanley. Plaintiff(s): Thomas Ashurst, Charles Davenport and...

Short title: Ashurst v Stanley.

Plaintiff(s): Thomas Ashurst, Charles Davenport and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Stanley, widow and relict of Sir Edward Stanley, bart.

Defendant(s): Sir Thomas Stanley, Bart.

Subject of depositions: Manor or lordship of Biccursteth, and the capital, messuage, or manor house called "the Hall of Biccursteth" and the demesne lands and other lands thereunto belonging. Touching the marriage portion and jointure of said Lady Elizabeth on her marriage with the said Sir Edward Stanley (defendant's late father). Debts, of said Sir Edward Maintenance of defendant by plaintiffs since his father's death. Survey of said Sir Edward's estates. Customs of said manor.

County/place: Lancashire.

Date of commission: 28 November 1692.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 6 February 1693 at Cranswick.

Deponent(s): Gregory Hoole; Robert Ausdall; Nicholas Rylance; Roger Bostock; James Cockett; John Berey; John Barnes; William Tasker; Thomas Hale; Thomas Fisher; William Harsnepp; John Winstanley (2); Henry Dawber; Thomas Ball (2); Samuel Whitfeild; John Mee; Edmond Cropper (2); Ellen Woosey; Benjamin Fletcher (2); Henry Mosse; Alice Shepheard; Anne Andrews; Richard Darbyshire; James Swift; Robert Woosey; Thomas Rigbey; William Moorcroft; John Jump; Alexander Haydock; Robert Seddon; Oliver Haydock; Silvester Moorecroft; Edward Vawdry; Thomas Foxcroft; Henry Valentine; Thomas Smalshaw; John Bilsborow; William Spencer; James Woosey; Gilbert Smite; James Smith.