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

Catalogue reference: DL 4/127/1693/6

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DL 4/127/1693/6
Date
1694
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Short title: Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster v White, otherwise Earl of Devonshire v White.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General l of the Duchy of Lancaster [at the relation of [William Cavendish] Earl of Devonshire, John Rotheram and George Bennett].

Defendants: Cornelius White, Turner, Middleton, Bagshaw, Chapman, Furnes and Hill.

Documents: depositions concerning Bradwell, Derbyshire.

Taken 3 January, 5 Wm and Mary, 1694.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Francis Bennet of Grindlow, yeoman, aged 78, deposed that he has been a barmaster for 28 years and has been a miner and maintainer of mines since he was 21; Godfrey Marshall of Bradwell, miner, aged 76, deposed that he has been a miner for 50 years and holds many parts in mines in Bradwell; Robert Hambleton of Bradwell, miner, aged 50; Isaac Moreton of Bradwell, miner, aged 32; Gervase Swindell of Tideswell, miner, aged 40; Rancis Beighton of Sheldon, miner, aged 54; Thomas Charlesworth of Castleton, yeoman, aged 36; John Bullock of Stalye, gentleman, aged 65; Thomas Bagshaw of Bakewell, gentleman, aged 55, deposed that for 17 years he has been a steward of the Duchy of Lancaster barmote courts in High Peak.

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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Crown lands and estates
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/C5920377/

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