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Short title: Heath v Earl of Dover. Plaintiffs: Sir Robert Heath and Sir Cornelius...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/92/55

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DL 4/92/55
Date
1637-1638
Description

Short title: Heath v Earl of Dover.

Plaintiffs: Sir Robert Heath and Sir Cornelius Vermuyden.

Defendants: Henry [Carey] Earl of Dover, Sir Abraham Dawes, Sir Robert Sharpey, Thomas Wright, Sir John Curzon, George Drywood and others.

Documents: examinations concerning the Dovegang mine, in Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Taken 7th and 18th December, 13 Charles I.

Deponents for plaintiffs: John Clerke of Manthorpe, aged 31 years; Thomas Nesopp of the Inner Temple, London, gentleman, aged 60 years; Robert Heath of Dartford, Kent, aged 42; George Gohuson, of the Inner Temple, London, aged 28 years; Thomas Adams of Chaddesden, Derbyshire, aged 44.

Deponents for defendants: Anthony Coate of Cromford, Wirksworth; Thomas Nessop of the Inner Temple, London, gentleman, aged 60.

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
Legal status
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/C5919364/

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