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Short title: Governor of the Free Grammar School of Ashbourne v Kniveton. Plaintiffs:...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/113/4

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DL 4/113/4
Date
1670
Description

Short title: Governor of the Free Grammar School of Ashbourne v Kniveton.

Plaintiffs: Governor and Assistants of the Grammar School of Ashbourne.

Defendants: Henry Kniveton.

Documents: depositions concerning common rights in Ashbourne, Derbyshire.

Taken 17 October, 1670.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Christopher Brooks of Bolsover, gentleman, aged 40; Edward Pegge of Beauchief, esquire, aged 48; John Slack of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 25; James Sherratt of Tideswell, gentleman, aged 24; Thomas Wood of Offcoat, aged 19; Roger Jackson of Offcoat, gentleman, aged 80, deposed that there was a rental document [produced at court] held in the chest of Ashbourne School. The enclosure process was opposed by the commoners of Ashbourne. The Duchy of Lancaster court settled the matter. The holders of the enclosed land were to pay 18 d. per acre to the commoners and the commoners were allowed to put beasts on the fields out of season. The enclosure was 'of great advantage to the owners thereof, and woud be a great detrymt to the commoners'.

Deponents for defendants: William Fletcher of Ashbourne, tanner, aged 3 score and 9 years [69 years], deposed that the fields were in Offcoat and Underwood, not Ashbourne. The copyholders, freeholders, burgeses and other holders of land in Ashbourne have formerly had the right to common in all the fields. 50 years ago [1620] the fields lay open as 'meane fields' but since then they were enclosed; William Cantrell of Ashbourne, aged 74; George Buxton of Ashbourne, aged 52; William Spalton of Ashbourne, aged 74; Abraham Tomlinson of Asbourne, aged 50 years and more; Valentine Jackson of Ashbourne, aged 65; George Jackson of Ashbourne, husbandman, aged 27.

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/C5920092/

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