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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: Attorney General [of the Duchy of Lancaster] v Greatorex. Plaintiffs:...
Catalogue reference: DL 4/32/25
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- 1590
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Short title: Attorney General [of the Duchy of Lancaster] v Greatorex.
Plaintiffs: Attorney General [of the Duchy of Lancaster], at the relation of William Greatrex.
Defendants: William Greatrex.
Documents: depositions concerning the inheritance of lands in Hopton, Derbyshire, following the death of Raphe Greatrex [Ralph Greatorex].
Taken 18 September, 32 Eliz.
Deponents for plaintiffs: Roland Eaton of Hopton, yeoman, aged around 52; William Steeple of Hopton, husbandman, aged around 55; John Greatrex of Calow, husbandman, aged around 36; John Greatrex of Milnehouses in the parish of Wirksworth, husbandman, aged around 49; James Cockyn of Hopton, husbandman, aged 3 score and ten [70 years]; Richard Gretrax of Hopton, labourer, aged around 40; John Greatrax of Dawberrylees, husbandman, aged around 40; Robert Hurte, vicar of Ashbourne, aged around 60, who deposed that he wrote the will of Anne Greatrex in which the disputed lands were listed.
32 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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- 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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