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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Dakin. Plaintiffs: Attorney...
Catalogue reference: DL 4/27/22
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- 1585
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Dakin.
Plaintiffs: Attorney General at the relation of Sir James Croft.
Defendants: Thomas Dakin.
Documents: depositions concerning church lands of Fairfield, Derbyshire.
Taken 31 August, 27 Eliz.
Deponents for defendants: William Dakin of Fairfield, husbandman, aged 65, deposed that he has seen a document of 1531 concerning the funding of a priest to say a service in the chapel, the lands have belonged to the chapel since that date; William Conrell of Fairfield, husbandman; Christopher Goodwin of Fairfield, husbandman, aged 4 score [80 years], whose memory of the area goes back 60 years [to 1525], deposed that the priest does not have rights over the land and that rents were paid to the Vernons of Haddon. The chapel of Fairfield is a chapel of rest. Marriages, christening and burials were carried out in Hope parish church; Richard Goodwin of Fairfield, husbandman, aged 3 score and 10 [70 years]; Richard Goodwin of Cowhow, yeoman, age 3 score and 5 [65 years], whose memory goes back 55 years [to 1530]; George Goodwin of Cowhow, yeoman, aged 3 score [60], whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1545].
27 Eliz.
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- 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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- Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
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