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Short title: Durdame v Earl of Westmorland. Plaintiffs: Joan Durdame widow, Thomas...

Catalogue reference: C 6/402/58

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C 6/402/58
Date
1674
Description

Short title: Durdame v Earl of Westmorland.

Plaintiffs: Joan Durdame widow, Thomas Willoughby esq, John Bellamy, Andrew Charleton, Henry Grace, William Bellamy, James Wright, Salathiel Swaineland, [unknown] Marchant widow, John Marchant, Henry Hewitt, [unknown] Grace widow, Alice Houghton his wife, John Chettle, John Wright, George Golding, John Setchell, Robert Parke, Robert Carrier, Ellen Gallant widow, Katherine Wildbore, Edward Gosling, John Robinson, William Spaine, Thomas Warren, Edward Warren, John Robinson, Robert Goodwin, William Goodwin, Matthew Knowles, Edward Reeve, Robert Edis, Joan Clarke widow, Elizabeth Clarke, George Chadbourne, Browne Basseldine, Peter Vannes, John Henry, Thomas Bamford, Mark Le Plan, William Bourne, Mary Old, William Exton, Susan Exton, [unknown] Bull infant, by Andrew Fox, his guardian, William Wright, William Bellamy gent, Edward Bellamy, William Hitch, Elizabeth Bellamy spinster, Elizabeth Astlyn his wife, Mary Browning his wife, Robert Chesham, Thomas Fox, Robert Parke, William Pettitt and Elizabeth Hart widow.

Defendants: Charles Fane Earl of Westmorland lord of manor.

Subject: The plaintiffs, all tenants of copyhold messuages, cottages and land, were seeking a formal ratification and confirmation of the covenants and agreements in an indenture tripartite concerned with their tenure of the copyhold lands held of the defendant: mentions Godfrey Houghton, William Astlyn and Alexander Browning: property in Farcet, Huntingdonshire and Stanground (unidentified) Cambridgeshire.

Document type: bill, answer.

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Record URL
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