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Short title: Bomer v Benskin. Plaintiffs: Jacob Bomer. Defendants: Thomas Benskin,...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/117/10

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DL 4/117/10
Date
1675
Description

Short title: Bomer v Benskin.

Plaintiffs: Jacob Bomer.

Defendants: Thomas Benskin, Grace Benskin, Elizabeth Allestry, John Booth and Exuperius Beighton.

Documents: depositions concerning inheritance of property of Richard Allestry [Allestrey] in Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Taken in 1675.

Deponents for plaintiffs: John Byard of Wirksworth, Sheerman, aged 40; Thomas Brown of Derby, Archdeacon of Derby, aged 54; Thomas Cadman of Heage, husbandman, aged 46; Henry Allestry of Alfreton, gentleman, aged 84; Robert Hunt of Starcliff, husbandman, aged 40; Edward Milward of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 55; Gervase Jackson of Wirksworth, aged 60; Anthony Tomlinson of Wirksworth, miner, aged 40, deposed that following the purchase of Elizabeth Allestry's share of the mine, he bought the other shares before selling them himself; Dorothy, wife of Anthony Tomlinson, aged 40; Thomas Waterfall of Wirksworth, miner, aged 50; Elizabeth, wife of Henry Wigley, gentleman, of Wirksworth, aged 50; James Allen of Wirksworth, blacksmith, aged 38; John Mollamus of Wirksworth, miner, aged 40; Mrs Elizabeth Allestry, widow; George Thompson of Wirksworth, butcher, aged 55; Robert Blackbourne of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 50; William Hopkinson of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 29; Thomas Drakefield of Wirksworth, miner, aged 25; Henry Wrigley of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 50.

Deponents for defendants: Thomas Cox of Bradly, gentleman, aged 48; Thomas Benskin of Derby, gentleman, aged 46; Grace Benskin, wife of Thomas Benskin, aged 44; John Balleckhouse of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 64; Edmund Ford of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 40, deposed that he was the overseer at the mine in question; Thomas Sanderson of Alderwasley in Wirksworth, yeoman, aged 55, [servant of Mr John Lowe, complains of intimidation by William Hopkinson]; William Haynes of Wirksworth, yeoman, aged 46.

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
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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/C5920192/

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