Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Powell, otherwise Trustees...

Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Powell, otherwise Trustees of the Dowager Queen Catherine v Powell.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster at the relation of Sir James Butler Attorney General to the Queen Dowager, [Henry Hyde] Earl of Clarendon and others trustees of the Queen, Thomas Eyre and others, relators.

Defendants: Thomas Powell and others.

Documents: depositions concerning deer on the commons of Taddington, Flagg, Priestcliffe and Chelmorton, Derbyshire.

Taken in 1687.

Deponents for defendants: Michael Heathcoate of Buxton, gentleman, aged 70, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1637]; William Barker of Sheldon, gentleman, aged 64, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1637]; William Cocker of Smalldale, Peak Forest, yeoman, aged 80 years and more, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1627]; Martin Hallom of Smalldale, Peak Forest, husbandman, aged 78, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1627]; John Sellars of Taddington, miner, aged 84; Thomas Lomas of Earles Booth, Hartington, husbandman, aged 65, [lived in Taddington between the ages of 10 and 21 when he worked as a shepherd]; Edmund Hill of Taddington, husbandman, aged 88, whose memory goes back 70 years [to 1617]; Thomas Slater of Taddington, miner, aged 73; Elizabeth Standley of Biggin, widow, aged 90, deposed that she married in Monyash 69 years ago and has known Taddington ever since [from 1618]. She was a midwife and therefore had occasion to 'early and late' ride across the commons and wastes of Taddington, Monyash, Priestcliffe, Flagg and Chelmsford, but never saw any deer thereon; Nicholas Moore of Monyash, yeoman, aged 102, whose memory goes back 80 years [to 1607], deposed that since he was 20 he has spent much of his time on the commons and wastes as a miner or orebuyer but never saw deer thereon; Thomas Mottram of Tunstead, husbandman, aged 88, deposed that he was employed as a shepherd since the age of 10 and 'hath never lived above three miles from the said townes since hee was borne'; Robert Redfearne of Flagg, husbandman, aged 60 years and more, deposed that 'hee this deponent being borne at Flagg and never a fortnight together out of the said Towne in all his life'; George Needham of Flagg, miner, aged 57.