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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Spateman, otherwise Earl...

Catalogue reference: DL 4/126/1692/2

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DL 4/126/1692/2
Date
1692
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v Spateman, otherwise Earl of Devonshire v Spateman.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster [at the relation of [William Cavendish] Earl of Devonshire].

Defendants: Spateman, Barde, Whitlocke and others.

Documents: depositions concerning the role of barmaster in High Peak, Winster, Derbyshire.

Taken 18 April, 5 Wm and Mary, 1693.

Deponents for plaintiffs: George Sellars of Winster, miner, aged 35; Robert Sherwin of Winster, miner, aged 40; Francis Evans of Winster, miner, aged 37; Henry Hawley of Gratton, miner, aged 58; Anthony Evans of Winster, yeoman, aged 42; John Barker of Winster, miner, aged 32; WIlliam Blackwell of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 80, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1653]; William Shawe senior of Bonsall, yeoman, aged 76, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1633]; John Adams of Winster, miner, aged 30; William Deane of Winster, miner, aged 40; John Storer of Winster, miner, aged 31; John Bullock of Staveley, gentleman, aged 64 years or more; Thomas Bagshaw of Bakewell, gentleman, aged 54; William Hall of Elton, yeoman, aged 60.

Deponents for defendants: Anthony Roper of Cromford, miner, aged 36; John Robinson of Winster, miner, aged 60; William Toplis of Wirksworth, miner, aged 40; Richard Lisset of Wirksworth, gentleman, aged 19.

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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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/C5920369/

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