Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Cavendish and others....

Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Cavendish and others.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster at the relation of Nicholas White and Edward Buxton.

Defendants: Sir Charles Cavendish and others.

Documents: depositions concerning boundaries of waste ground at Cawden Moor, Chelmorton, Derbyshire.

Taken 15 April, 12 James I.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Thurston Dale of Hurdlow, gentleman, aged 60, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1574], deposed that Chelmorton is 'meared out' and well knowm from Blackwell. That the inhabitants of Chelmorton have always had common on their part of Cawden moor until recently when that possession has been disturbed by Blackwall inhabitants; Alexander Goodwin of Bradshawe in Alstonfield parish, Staffordshire, gentleman, aged 65, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1664]; Richard Goodwin of bayleyflout, parish of Hope, husbandman, aged 56; John Buxton, Ashford, husbandman, aged 57, whose memory goes back 40 years and more [to 1574].

Deponents for defendants: Robert Palfreyman of Blackwall, husbandman, aged 54, deposed that the late Countess of Shrewsbury caused little hill on Cawden to be enclosed. Mr Raphe Blackwall who was then farmer of the manor, caused the walls of the enclosure to be pulled down. The countess 'promised something' in return for his support for the enclosure of the hill as dissension grew between her and Earl George; Richard Eyre of Blackwall, husbandman, aged 48; Roger Wheeldon of Tunstead, husbandman, aged 60.