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Short title: Hayne v Bateman. Plaintiffs: Hayne and Hitchinson. Defendants: Bateman....

Catalogue reference: DL 4/118/4

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DL 4/118/4
Date
1676
Description

Short title: Hayne v Bateman.

Plaintiffs: Hayne and Hitchinson.

Defendants: Bateman.

Documents: depositions concerning Wirksworth, Derbyshire.

Taken in 1676.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Francis Moore of Winster, miner, aged 50, deposed that John Bateman, his son and his daughter in law, Ellen Pearson, worked a mine in the Elton area between 1671 and 1672. The defendant got the ore his son drew and the said Ellen Pearson picked and dressed. Bateman had at various times sold ore to William Elliot for 22s 6d per load and to George Hampson. [Load a measure of lead ore made up of 9 dishes weighing about 5 cwt/hundredweight]. Bateman 'is a man of evill fame and hath byn arraigned and convictd of felony and was burned in the hand' [is a man of evil fame and has been arranged and convicted of felony and was burned in the hand]. Bateman has often concealed ore he has got from his partners in those works that he has shared; Bridget Ratcliffe of Intacks in the parish of Bradborne, widow, aged 24, deposed that she and Dorothy Gidley were employed by Bateman to wash 'with fatt and seive the offal' gotten out of the half meer. They retreived three dishes of lead ore which they sold to Bateman for five groats a dish. [Dish measure of lead ore based on a standard brass dish, usually oblong in shape]; Henry Travis of Brssington, gentleman, aged 42; Richard Harvey of Parwich, miner, aged 30.

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/C5920199/

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