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Special Collections: Deeds: Crown Grants
Catalogue reference: SC 4
Date: 1670-1720
Original letters patent vesting in trustees the fee-farm rents reserved on Crown grants, and indentures concerning the jointure of Catherine of...
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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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- 1580
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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.
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- Crown lands and estates
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- Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
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