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

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

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster [at the relation of John Davenport].

Defendants: Bagshawe and others.

Documents: depositions concerning High Peak, Derbyshire.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Robert Steele of Stockport, Cheshire, gentleman, aged 43, deposed that 11 years ago he and Davenport were at Wirksworth at the house of Jennet Carrier [Davenport's mother in-law]. He heard a conversation between Jennet Carrier and Davenport regarding the marriage of Davenport to her daughter Isabel. They drew up articles for the dowry of £1500, £1000 of which was to be in the form of the mills called Manstonfield Mill and Tunstead Mill, known as the Chapel Mills. Upon the marriage Davenport farmed the mills out to Anthony Ollerenshaw; John Rollinson of Tunstead Milltown, yeoman, aged 60 years or more, whose memory goes back many years, deposed that the inhabitants ought to grind their corn at the chapel mills, though some do not. He never heard that anyone attempted to erect any mills before the English Civil Wars; Thomas Browne of Bradshaw Edge, Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 65, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1613]; William Townsend of Haddon, gentleman, aged 66, deposed that Thomas and Elizabeth Bagshawe sold the mills to the Earl of Rutland [produced conveyance dated to 5 February 15 Charles I to prove claim]; Nicholas Lowe of Bradshawe Edge, Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 79, whose memory goes back 70 years [to 1593]; John Shalcross of Shallcross, esquire, aged 60; George Bagshawe of Tunstead Milltown, yeoman, aged 53; Henry Bagshawe of Ridge Hall, gentleman, aged 28, whose memory goes back 10 years [to 1653], deposed that 4 years ago he read and made copies of legal papers which were 100 years old in which Lingard, the then farmer of the mills, prosecuted the inhabitants [cites deed of 29 May 7 James I]; Anthony Lingard of Tunstead Milltown, miller, aged 42, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1623]; William Greaves of Tideswell, gentleman, aged 73; John Bagshawe of Bradshawe Edge, Chapel-en-le-Frith, gentleman, aged 65.

Deponents for defendants: Edward Bennet of Bugsworth, yeoman, aged 84, whose memory goes back 80 years [to 1583]; Edward Turnocke of Hope, yeoman, aged 50; Edward Ollerenshawe of Bradshawe Edge, Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 63; Thomas Shert of Bowden, husbandman, aged 76; German Bowden of Bowden, aged 30; William Carrington of Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 74; George Bagshawe of Chapel-en-le-Frith, husbandman, aged 50; Nicholas Shert of Chapel Milltown, webster, aged 76; George Rainscott of Chapel-en-le-Frith, husbandman, aged 40.