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Halton Fee, (as in DL 30/4/54 ); [Chester and Lancaster]: Courts and Halmotes. 4...
Catalogue reference: DL 30/4/57
Date: 1425-1427
Halton Fee, (as in DL 30/4/54); [Chester and Lancaster]: Courts and Halmotes. 4 to 5 Hen VI. 9 membranes.
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Short title: Eyre v Browne. Plaintiffs: Rowland Eyre. Defendants: Richard Browne....
Catalogue reference: DL 4/40/34
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1598
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Short title: Eyre v Browne.
Plaintiffs: Rowland Eyre.
Defendants: Richard Browne.
Documents: depositions concerning payment of cope on mines in the Peak Forest, Derbyshire.
Taken 20 October, 40 Eliz.
Deponents for plaintiffs: Thomas Steare of the Peak Forest, miner, aged 45, was the chief workman on the mine; Henry Pearson of the Peak Forest, aged 50, deposed that he worked for Robert Bagshawe of the Dalehead in summer 12 months ago; Margaret Bradley, wife of George Bradley, of the Peak Forest, aged 42, deposed that lot and tithe had been paid on purchased ore as well as 'the greater ore'. [Lot a mineral duty paid by the miner to the lord of the liberty to search for and mine ore]; William Heawward of the Peak Forest, husbandman, aged 40; Alice Steare, wife of Thomas Steare, of the Peak Forest, deposed that a number of miners and orebuyers in the Peak Forest were avoiding lot and cope. That she and her husband have paid it, 'her husband being a poor man and not able to stand in law against Mr Eyre'; William Pedley of Castleton, wiredrawer, aged 50; Nicholas Bush of Castleton, miner, aged 36; Richard Hill of the Peak Forest, miner, aged 40; Richard Ashdale of Castleton, miner, aged 28; Martin Hallem of Castleton, husbandman, aged 27.
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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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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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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/C5916852/
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