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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Mitchell, otherwise Earl...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/105/1661/33

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DL 4/105/1661/33
Date
1661
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Mitchell, otherwise Earl of Northampton v Mitchell.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster [at the relation of James Compton, Earl of Northampton].

Defendants: William Mitchell.

Documents: depositions from London solicitors describing William Mitchell's purchase of the lot and cope and the barmoteship of Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Taken 25 October, 13 Chas II.

Deponents for plaintiffs: John Hanson of St Boltolph's Bishopsgate, London, gentleman, aged 50; James May of Tottenham, gentleman, aged 61; Henry Laley of Acton, Middlesex, gentleman, aged 37; Anthony Burley of Holborn, gentleman, aged 28; William Crees of London, gentleman, aged 29; John Fisher of Middle Temple, London, gentleman, aged 35; John Smith of Southwark, gentleman, aged 32; William Robinson of Grays Inn, esquire, aged 44; Thomas Newton of Yardley Park, Northamptonshire, gentleman, aged 30; Anthony Williams of London, gentleman, aged 31; Thomas Jeffrey of Yardley Hastings, Northamptonshire, gentleman, aged 33; John Fleming of London, gentleman, aged 32; Robert Flattman of London, gentleman, aged 54; Dennis Pepper of London, gentleman, aged 41.

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/C5919835/

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