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Duchy of Lancaster: Bonds of Obligation
Catalogue reference: DL 24
Date: c1509-1837
This series consists of bonds of obligation created as part of the administration of the estate of the Duchy of Lancaster and the operation of the...
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Short title: Attorney General [of the Duchy of Lancaster] v Greene. Plaintiffs:...
Catalogue reference: DL 4/32/43
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1590
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Short title: Attorney General [of the Duchy of Lancaster] v Greene.
Plaintiffs: Attorney General [of the Duchy of Lancaster] at the relation of Nicholas Booth.
Defendants: Hugh Greene and Edward Greene.
Documents: depositions concerning bailiff's rights in Fairfield, Derbyshire.
Taken September, 32 Eliz.
Deponents for plaintiffs: Humphrey Dakin of Chelmorton, yeoman, aged 77, deposed that Raphe Blackwall [gentleman] had been baliff in the time of Henry VII. The current bailiff was asserting rights to certain lands known as the bailiff's yard and that he has attempted to build a cottage in which to house tenants. He was prevented from doing so by the inhabitants; Thurston Goodyn of the Peak Forest, husbandman, aged 80; Anthony Buxton of Fairfield. husbandman, aged 55; George Goodyn of Cowlow, yeoman, aged 67; Alex Curtes of Fairfield, yeoman, aged 70; Thomas Cocker of Fairfield, yeoman, aged 77; William Henshawe of Fairfield, aged 68. Two deeds were presented to the court both dating to 36 Hen VIII [1544]. The commissioners met with 'many people' and went on a perambulation of the lands in question. Bounds recited.
Deponents for defendants: Thurston Allen of Whetstone, gentleman, aged 82; John Ferne of the Green near Buxton, yeoman, aged 72; Edward Needham of the Green near Buxton, yeoman, aged 77; John Dakin of Pigtorr, husbandman, aged 70. Two documents were produced for the defendant, dating to Hen VI.
32 Eliz
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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
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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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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5916428/
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