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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: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Longden. Plaintiffs: Attorney...
Catalogue reference: DL 4/69/56
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1619
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Longden.
Plaintiffs: Attorney General [at the relation of Sir Henry Garrett].
Defendants: Longden and Needham.
Documents: depositions concerning common rights in Green Fairfield, Derbyshire.
Taken 14 April, 17 James I
Deponents for defendants: Richard Gawyne of Whitehill in Anfeld parish, Staffordshire, yeoman, aged 64, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1570], deposed that in all his remembrance, the inhabitants of Wormhill, Tunstead and Fairfield have enjoyed summer herbage on Greenfairfield from the Annunciation of Our Lady to the feast of St Michael the Archangel; Thomas Palfreyman of the Peak Forest, miner, aged 71, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1560] deposed that 60 ploughs are maintained by the common and a further 800 people are 'much relieved' and would be 'undone' without the common. The common at Greenfield holds about 16 score [320] beasts. The inhabitants have little other pasture outside of the common fields; Alexander Goodwin of Bradshawe, Alstonfield parish in Staffordshire, husbandman, aged 73, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1560]; Hugh Wright of Stanley, yeoman, aged 62, whose memory goes back 50 years.
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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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- English
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- Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
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