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Short title: Gell v Blackwall. Plaintiffs: Anthony Gell. Defendants: William Blackwall...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/22/14

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DL 4/22/14
Date
1580
Description

Short title: Gell v Blackwall.

Plaintiffs: Anthony Gell.

Defendants: William Blackwall and John Ashenhurst.

Documents: depositions concerning landownership and rents, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Taken 21 March, 22 Eliz.

Deponents for plaintiffs: William Thacker of Ashleyhay, yeoman, aged around 80; Thomas Spenser of Ashleyhay, husbandman, aged around 80; William Higgatt of Wirksworth, smelter, aged around 48; Thomas Hall of Wirksworth, sadler, aged around 58.

Deponents for defendants: John Wigley of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 50 or more, deposed that collecting rents on behalf of his father, who had been bailiff of Wirksworth, was challenging. Lists bailiffs down to present, John Ashenhurst [defendant]; James Wetton of Wirksworth, husbandman, aged around 50, deposed that he was an executor of Richard Blackwall estate and was a bailiff 10 years ago. Rents were due 'at Th. annunciacion of or Ladie' [Lady Day, 25 March]; James Flint of Matlock, yeoman, aged around 60; Thomas Hall of Wirksworth, sadler, aged around 58.

22 Eliz.

Note
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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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Crown lands and estates
Publication note(s)
Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5915688/

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