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Short title: Overton v Makepeace. Plaintiff(s): Mary Overton, widow, John Reeve,...

Catalogue reference: E 134/6WandM/East29

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This record is about the Short title: Overton v Makepeace. Plaintiff(s): Mary Overton, widow, John Reeve,... dating from 1694 Apr 25-1694 May 21 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/6WandM/East29
Date
1694 Apr 25-1694 May 21
Description

Short title: Overton v Makepeace.

Plaintiff(s): Mary Overton, widow, John Reeve, Henry Richards, Thomas Mason, Thomas Green, Thomas Garrett, Elizabeth Hunt, widow, William Halford, the elder.

Defendant(s): Thomas Makepeace, William Makepeace, William Cleeve, Sara Reynolds, Alice Reynolds (the same Sara and Alice being infants, by the said Thomas Makepeace, their guardian), Thomas Saunders, Stepn Maunder, John Verney, Jonas Spiers, Anne Reynolds.

Subject of depositions: Real and personal estate of Thomas Reynolds, of Lighthorn (late father of defendants Sarah and Alice), who married Alice Makepeace, one of the daughters of Thomas Makepeace. Said estate including the manor of Flecknoe, lands in Lighthorn, and certain closes called "the Hall Close ", "Lardentree Close" and "Shenston's Close" etc. Touching the jointure lands of said Alice.

County/place: Warwickshire.

Date of commission: 12 February 1694.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 27 April 1694 at Southampton.

Deponent(s): Foulk Button; Clement George; Mary Smith; William Batsford; Jane Robins; Stephen Peck; Richard Manton; William Jeacock; Thomas Fletcher; Moses Knib; William Halford; Thomas Overton; Leonard Green; Sara Reynolds; Fulk Button (2); Michael Cleeve; William Wheately; Henry Charles; Samuel Masters; Robert Shenston; William Masters; Robert Chambers; Richard Pattistone; John Robinson; James Smith (2); Nicholas Sambach (2); Thomas Robinson; William Glaze; John Gibbes (2); William Lidbrooke (2); William Makepeace; Michael Francis; Sarah Hillary.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
E 134/6W&M/East29
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3711223/

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