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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Milnes, otherwise Lord...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/110/1667/24

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DL 4/110/1667/24
Date
1667
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Milnes, otherwise Lord Willoughby v Milnes.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster [at the relation of Lord Willoughby and others].

Defendants: William Milnes and Robert Spencer.

Documents: Examinations taken as part of a commission concerning the contempt of a Duchy of Lancaster order between Willoughby and Milnes, regarding the possession of the Elton mines in Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Deponents for defendants: [examinations taken at the house of Hugh Newton gentleman at the ‘signe of the Castle in the Crown of Derby’]. Commission on behalf of defendants Milnes and Spencer. Investigated by Charles Agard and Thomas Bagshawe [also Symon Degg, John Shallcrosse and Robert Ashton]; William Milnes, previously sworn; Robert Spencer, previously sworn.

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/C5920002/

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