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Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Gell, otherwise Earl of Northampton...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/106/33

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DL 4/106/33
Date
1662
Description

Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Gell, otherwise Earl of Northampton v Gell.

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

Defendants: John Gell.

Documents: depositions concerning lead mines in Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Taken 8 February, 14 Chas II.

Deponents for plaintiffs: John Coles of Duston, Northamptonshire, clerk, aged 52, [signed name]; Thomas Newton of Yardley Park, Northamptonshire, esquire, aged 30, [signed name]; Thomas Jeffrey of Castle Ashby, gentleman, aged 21, [signed name]; George Allestrey of Derby, gentleman, aged 55, [signed name]; Anthony Burley of London, gentleman, aged 28, [signed name]; James Mayo of London, gentleman, aged 61, [signed name]; William Crees of London, gentleman, aged 29, [signed name]; Thomas Ghyles of London, gentleman, aged 35, [signed name]; John Smith of London, gentleman, aged 34, [signed name], aged 34; Thomas Hartley of London, gentleman, aged 51, [signed name]; John Harrison of St Botolph's Bishopsgate. London, aged 54, [signed name].

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/C5919870/

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