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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Knowles. Plaintiffs: Attorney...
Catalogue reference: DL 4/21/31
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- 1579
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Knowles.
Plaintiffs: Attorney General [at the relation of Humphrey Dakin].
Defendants:William Knowlles and Thomas Downes.
Documents: depositions concerning enclosures at Chelmorton, Derbyshire.
Taken 17 June, 21 Eliz.
Deponents for plaintiffs: Nicholas Longsden of King Sterndale, husbandman, aged 60; Thurston Dale of Hardlow, yeoman, aged 69, deposed that he knows the vast grounds at Styward Flat lately enclosed containing 9 acres in Chelmorton and 30 acres enclosed at Cowden moor; John Ward of Chelmorton, labourer, aged 60; John Bargh of King Sternedale, yeoman, aged 26; Humphrey Buxton of Chelmorton, husbandman, aged 60; George Buxton of Chelmorton, labourer, aged 60.
>Deponents for defendants: Robert Palfreyman of Blackwall, deposed that the prior had walked the boundaries of Blackwall 1 or 2 years before the dissolution of Lenton; Edward Syndaell of Turnstead, husbandman, aged 70, deposed that he remembers driving cattle of Taddington out of Blackwall and that the enclosures had been made by farmers of the manor 30 years beforehand; Hugh Goodhyn of Hartingdon, husbandman, aged 60; Robert Chapman of the Hill, labourer, aged 57.
21 Eliz.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This catalogue entry was created by Dr Hannah Robb and Professor Andy Wood, in a trial of the potential reuse of academic research notes, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2017-2018
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- Crown lands and estates
- Farming
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- Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
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