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Short title: Empson v Bayley. Plaintiffs: Bryan Empson of Gowle [Goole], Yorkshire,...

Catalogue reference: C 2/ChasI/E1/21

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This record is about the Short title: Empson v Bayley. Plaintiffs: Bryan Empson of Gowle [Goole], Yorkshire,... dating from 1632 in the series Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings, Series I, Elizabeth I to Charles.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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C 2/ChasI/E1/21
Date
1632
Description

Short title: Empson v Bayley.

Plaintiffs: Bryan Empson of Gowle [Goole], Yorkshire, second son of Gregory Empson, deceased.

Defendants: Richard Bayley, feoffee, and Edward Bayley, both of Howke [Hook ?], William Gaythorne of Pollington, Thomas Empson and Anne Empson of Gowle, widow of William Empson deceased.

Subject: concerning a grant made about 15 or 16 years (c 1616) since by the plaintiff's late father, Gregory Empson, of his farmhold in Gowle to William Watkinson of Hembrough [Hemingbrough], Peter Jackson of Newland, Francis Empson of Gowle the elder, and Richard Bayley of Howke, as feoffees to hold to the use of the plaintiff and the heirs of his body, with remainder to John Empson the youngest son of Gregory: all the feoffees save Richard Bayley are now dead.

Document type: bill only (24 November 1632).

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