Short Title: Cropley v Bardwell. [Cause code: SCEL-00088]. Documents: bill only....

Short Title: Cropley v Bardwell. [Cause code: SCEL-00088].

Documents: bill only.

Plaintiffs: Agnes Cropley widow, aunt and guardian of Mary Page.

Defendants: one Pooly of Icklingham esq [Thomas Pooley?], Edward Bardwell his servant and Edmund Melsome aiias Melsopp of Gazeley.

County: Suffolk.

Subject: forcible abduction (from a field where she was sewing and tending cattle) of Mary Page aged 12, an underage heiress to lands in Westley, late of her parents John and Margery Page.

Regnal year: 2 Eliz I Case report, taken from Star Chamber Reports, BL Harley MS 2143, ed K. J. Kesselring (List and Index Society, Special Series 57, 2018): [165] Agnes Cropley, widow, against Bardwell, defendant, for carrying away of Mary Page, an heir and infant, from the plaintiff being her aunt, against their wills, and setting her on horseback and holding her on with his sword drawn. For this committed for two years according to the statute and returned to her aunt again and fined. Michaelmas 2 Elizabeth fo. 107 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].