Short title: Bacon v Bradburn. Plaintiffs: Matthew Bacon. Defendants: William Bradborne...

Short title: Bacon v Bradburn.

Plaintiffs: Matthew Bacon.

Defendants: William Bradborne and others.

Documents: depositions concerning Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Taken 28 January, 42 Eliz.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Hugh Wood of Wirksworth, yeoman, aged around 66, deposed that he knew William Glossop who lived at Grange field and had land at Broadmeadow [alias Kings meadow]. William Glossop bequeathed the land to Mr Raphe Bell who then bequethed a moiety thereof to the deponent's father. He had occupied that moiety for many years and always paid his rent until Mr Anthony Gell [deceased] put him 'from the occupation thereof 34 years past or thereabouts'. The land was now occupied by Dorothy Barrett or her lessees. London based land speculator John Lewis who owned lands in Wirksworth had offered his father a lease of lands in broadmeadow; Robert Hilton of Wirksworth, miner, aged 4 score [80 years]; James Bollington of Wirksworth, innkeeper, aged around 48; Anthony Higgatt of Wirksworth, yeoman, aged around 36; John Haslom of Wirksworth, miner, aged around 58; Henry Sowter of Wirksworth, husbandman, aged around 97.

Deponents for defendants: Richard Fowke of Wirksworth, aged around 4 score [80 years]; Thomas Whithead of Wirksworth, miller, aged around 76; John Smith of Wirksworth, yeoman, aged around 68; Edward Wyndle of Wirksworth, butcher, aged around 63; William Milnes of Lea, yeoman, aged around 60.