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Short title: Mylnes v Bradborne. Plaintiffs: George Mylnes. Defendants: Dame Elizabeth...
Catalogue reference: DL 4/27/26
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- 1585
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Short title: Mylnes v Bradborne.
Plaintiffs: George Mylnes.
Defendants: Dame Elizabeth Bradborne, Anthony Bradbourne and others.
Documents: depositions concerning ownership of cottage and lands in Biggin, Derbyshire.
Taken 6 April, 27 Eliz.
Deponents for plaintiffs: Henry Bynney of Holland, yeoman, aged around 73, deposed that Bradborne drove George Mylnes out of the cottage and off the land, badly wounding him so that he almost died; Thomas Johnson of Belper, husbandman, aged 74, deposed that he knew that certain lands were chantry land as he had rented land from the chantry for 40 years. The cottage in the dispute lies on this land and the Bradbornes have no right to it; Nicholas Wyllies of the Hough, yeoman, aged around 30, deposed that 'strong hand and force' was used to remove George Mylne and his family by the Bradbornes; Thomas Beighton of Iretonwood, 'a poore man that lyveth onely of begginge and by other mens Alones', aged around 74, deposed that he knew the 2 chantry priests, both knights, and knew that they had leased the lands [a poor man that lives only of begging and by other men alone]; Richard Thacker of Iretonwood, husbandman, aged around 66; Richard Fowcher of Biging, husbandman, aged around 66.
Deponents for defendants: Joan Beighton of Biggin, widow, aged around 60, deposed that she now inhabits what used to be Mylnes cottage; John Heynes of KirkIreton, husbandman aged around 75; Thomas Beck of Derby, barber surgeon, aged around 34; Robert Roades of Belper, sieve maker, aged around 62; Thomas Roades of Belper, sieve maker, aged around 60, brother of Robert; John Browne of Biggin, husbandman, aged 'verie neare lx [60] yeares', deposed that Nicholas Bradborne was carryng a sword and buckler and that his 2 accomplices had staves when they attacked Mylne [very near 60 years]; Edmund Tetlowe of Atlow, yeoman, aged around 66; Thomas Kyrkland of Holland, husbandman, aged around 26; William Mylnes of Atlow, aged around 34; John Haugh of Atlow, aged around 28; William Hitchenson of Biggin, aged around 48; Thomas Wilcockson of Biggin, husbandman, aged around 68; Richard Heyne of Iretonwood, husbandman, aged around 50.
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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