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

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

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

Defendants: William Andrew, Hadfeild and Bennett.

Documents: depositions concerning Bugsworth, Chinley and Brownside, Derbyshire.

Taken in 1674.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Robert Steele of Macclesfield, Cheshire, gentleman, aged 54; George Shirt of Bowden Head, Chapel-en-le-Frith, aged 69, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1624], deposed that there were 'ancient lands' in Chinley and there were also new improved lands which were converted from pasture to tillage 40 years ago and now held by the defendant. He knows the improved lands were anciently arable because he heard that in ancient times there was a great house or hall that stood upon the lands. His grandfather told him all the lands in Chinley were of one tenure as it was bought by one man and divided into several possessions; Nicholas Beard of Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 65, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1624]; Robert Crossley of Tunstead, yeoman, aged 72, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1614]; Henry Bagshawe of The Ridge, esquire, aged 38, whose memory goes back many years; Nicholas Beard of Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 60 years and more; Charles Lingard of Chapel Milltown [Chapel Milton], yeoman, aged 64, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1624], deposed that he knows the lands to be anciently arable because he has seen the ruins of the foundation of a house on the lands; George Kirk of Chinley, yeoman, aged 60; Henry Bowden of Brownside, yeoman, aged 78; Anthony Lingard of Chapelmilltown, miller, aged 60; Thomas Kirke of Chapelmilltown, miller, aged 75.

Deponents for defendants: Thomas Bradbury of Bowden, yeoman, aged 65, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1624], deposed that Chinley was formerly a summer herbage and a winter common and was enclosed around 50 years ago by the neighbourhood. He never knew any corn to be grown on the land before it was enclosed; Thomas Cleyton of New Mill, Glossop, yeoman, aged 60, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1624]; James Thompson of Hayfield, mason, aged 60, whose memory goes back 34 years [to 1640]; Edward Nixon of Fernilee, coal miner, aged 64, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1624]; Thomas Collinson of Bowden, yeoman, aged 60, whose memory goes back 45 years [to 1629]; James Warrington of Bugsworth, husbandman, aged 60, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1634]; John Wild of Hayfield, Dryster at Heyfield Kilne, aged 58, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1634]; John Hadfield of Marple, Cheshire, miller, aged 60; Adam Bowden of New Mill, Glossop, shearman, aged 57.