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Halton Fee, (as in DL 30/4/54 ); [Chester and Lancaster]: Courts and Halmotes. 4...
Catalogue reference: DL 30/4/57
Date: 1425-1427
Halton Fee, (as in DL 30/4/54); [Chester and Lancaster]: Courts and Halmotes. 4 to 5 Hen VI. 9 membranes.
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Armyn. Plaintiffs: Attorney...
Catalogue reference: DL 4/110/1666/13
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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Armyn. Plaintiffs: Attorney... dating from 1666 in the series Duchy of Lancaster: Court of Duchy Chamber: Pleadings, Depositions and Examinations,.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1666
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Armyn.
Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Defendants: Dame Mary Armyn.
Documents: depositions concerning the rights of inhabitants to cut wood in Birchwood in Cromford, Derbyshire.
Taken 25 February, 18 Chas II.
Deponents for plaintiffs: John Wiggley of Cromford, yeoman, aged 46, deposed that Francis Chapman, a miner of Wirksworth was sued by Sir William Armyn over 20 years ago and 'one Barber' was sent to prison. Since he was a 'poore man' Sir William 'wished that they would bringe him such psons as had woll upon their backes [...] Barber made an escape out of prison and afterwards was tyed at a horse taile' [wished that they would bring him such persons as had wool upon their backs [...] Barber made an escape out of prison and afterwards was tied at a horse's tail]; Mary Seedus of Cromford, widow, aged 56.
Deponents for defendants: John Wiggley of Matlock, yeoman, aged 46, deposed that a cottage was erected on Cromford moor; Mary Seedus of Cromford, widow, aged 56.
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- 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)
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- English
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Andy Wood, The Politics of Social Conflict: the Peak Country, 1520-1770 (Cambridge UP, 1999)
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