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Short title: Needham v Bagshawe. Plaintiffs: [Hugh] Needham and [William] Palfreyman...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/40/29

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This record is about the Short title: Needham v Bagshawe. Plaintiffs: [Hugh] Needham and [William] Palfreyman... dating from 1598 in the series Duchy of Lancaster: Court of Duchy Chamber: Pleadings, Depositions and Examinations,.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
DL 4/40/29
Date
1598
Description

Short title: Needham v Bagshawe.

Plaintiffs: [Hugh] Needham and [William] Palfreyman for themselves and the Inhabitants of Wormhill, Tunstead and Fairfield.

Defendants: [Thomas] Bagshaw.

Documents: depositions concerning Green Fairfield, Derbyshire.

Taken 25 September, 40 Eliz.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Hugh Wright of Stanley, husbandman, aged 46, deposed that he had heard that the lands of Green Fairfield were depopulated and destroyed by Thomas Bagshawe or his father Henry Bagshawe, but he can not remember who told him 'but as it was thought amongst the neighbors' [but as it was thought amongst the neighbours] and he had heard 'diverse ould of anncyent men'[diverse old of ancient men] tell him that only the inhabitants of Wormhill, Turnstead and Fairfield have rights on the land; John Wright of Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 40; Robert Wright of Smalley, yeoman, aged 50.

Deponents for defendants: William Barghe of Kings Sterndale, husbandman, aged 48; Walter Marchington of Chapel-en-le-Frith, husbandman, aged 58.

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Note
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
Legal status
Not Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5916847/

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