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

Catalogue reference: DL 4/73/26

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DL 4/73/26
Date
1623-1624
Description

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

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster.

Defendants: Richard Halley and others.

Documents: depositions concerning enclosure of common lands in Winster, Derbyshire.

21 James I.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Robert Shawe of Bonsall, yeoman, aged 67, whose memory goes back 'always' [to 1557], deposed that Winster was always part of the manor or wapentake of the High Peak and the inhabitants have always done suit at the High Peak court. Part of the Winster pasture lands, called Winster Bank and Long Torr, were enclosed 30 years ago out of the wastes and commons [100 acres] by the freeholders and their undertenants. The enclosed land has since been purchased by Halley and others; John Hopkinson of Bonsall, yeoman, aged 65, whose memory goes back 'always' [to 1559]; Anthony Cadman of Bonsall, yeoman, aged 63, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1574].

Note
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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Not Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5918537/

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