Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Bramwall. Plaintiffs: Attorney...

Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Bramwall.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General [at the relation of Robert Hull].

Defendants: Thomas Bramwall, Robert Shawe, Thomas Marple, Thomas Needham, John Hopkinson and others.

Documents: depositions concerning Bonsall and Slaley, Derbyshire.

Taken 17 September, 16 James I.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Anthony Hopkins of Bonsall, gentleman, aged 50, [refused to answer certain questions concerning his own freehold land], deposed that he does not recognise the names of certain pieces of land and that certain parcels of land in question in Bonsall Lee were never used in common; Edmund Oates of Brassington, labourer, aged 4 score [80 years], deposed that he knew nothing of any enclosures on Bonsall Green; William Booth of Wirksworth, miner, aged 3 score and 5 years [85 years].

Deponents for defendants: Leonard Greensmith, husbandman, aged around 3 score and 10 years [70 years], deposed that common holders and free hodlers both have rights of common according to how much and they have. That he has heard that around 30 years ago Edward Hopkinson and some tenants of lands in Slaley were involved in Duchy of Lancaster action against one another; Robert Mather of Loughton, husbandman, aged 3 score and more [60 years and more], he was born in Bonsall and lied there until he was 20; William Chapman of Bonsall, yeoman, aged 4 score and 7 [87 years], freeholder born in Bonsall; John Owne of Matlock, miner, aged 3 score [60 years], whose memory of the area goes back 40 years [to 1578].