Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Inge and others. Plaintiffs:...

Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Inge and others.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General [on behalf of the King and at the relation of Sir James Butler, Attorney General to Queen Catherine, Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield and other trustees of the Queeen's Jointure, Thomas Eyre and others].

Defendants: William Inge and Allen.

Documents: depositions concerning the trespass of flocks of sheep on Bradwell Moor, Derbyshire.

Taken in 1686.

Deponents for plaintiffs: John Downes of Laneside in Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 63 years and more; John Wright of Perry in Peak Forest, husbandman, aged 77; George Shirt of Bowden Head, Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 80 years and more.

Deponents for defendants: Martin Middleton of Bradwell, yeoman, aged 75, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1627], deposed that the sheep belonging to Edward Allen had been pastured on the lands, now claimed by Queen Catherine, in the summer time in all his remembrance. He knows this because he has himself kept sheep on Bradwell Moor, which ajoins the disputed lands of Tideswell and Wheston Moor. He has always kown the inhabitants of Tideswell and Wheston to pasture sheep and cattle there and to get turves. He has known the freeholders and inhabitants of Bradwell to ride the bounds of the commons and has done so himself; Thurstan Hill of the Peak Forest, husbandman, aged 50 years and more, whose memory goes back 20 years [to 1667], deposed that 4 or 5 years ago there was a dispute between the inhabitants of Tideswell and Peak Forest regarding 'a poore woman and her child' who became chargeable to the parish. Her cottage lay directly across the boundary between the Peak Forest and Tideswell. It was agreed that Tideswell should 'take the woman' and the Peak Forest the child; Robert Middleton of Smalldale, Bradwell, yeoman, aged 82 years and more, whose memory goes back 'always', [to 1605]; Richard Middleton of Wheston, shepherd, aged 22; Thomas Peake of the Peak Forest, husbandman, aged 45, whose memory goes back 20 years [to 1667]; William Walker of the Peak Forest, yeoman, aged 37, whose memory goes back 'always' [to 1650].