Short title: Attorney General of the DUchy of Lancaster v Swann, otherwise Eyre v...

Short title: Attorney General of the DUchy of Lancaster v Swann, otherwise Eyre v Swann.

Plaintiffs: Attorney General [at the relation of Thomas Eyre, Powell and Dale].

Defendants: Edward Swann, Buxton, Shalcross, Naylor, Robbinson, Heathcote, White, Percifall and others.

Documents: depositions concerning Chelmorton and Flagg, Derbyshire.

Taken 16 April, 7 Wm III, 1695.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Henry Jackson junior of Chelmorton, husbandman, aged 57; Thomas Bretnor of Taddington, gentleman, aged 40; Alexander Brassington of Tideswell, gentleman, aged 40, [document written by John Shalcross c. 1675 produced]; George Goodwin of Taddington, yeoman, aged 55, whose memory goes back 45 years [to 1651]; William Clowes of Chelmorton, schoolmaster, aged 50, [1689 agreement produced]; George Goodwin of Monyash, barmaster, aged 36, [parish registers of Chapel-en-le-Frith and Hope produced]; David Stubbing of Disley, Cheshire, surveyor, aged 46, deposed that his father told him that in 1675 he was appointed to survey the commons of Flagg and Chelmorton and to lay out 1/3rd to Thomas Eyre. [He was shown the map his father produced]; Adam Bagshawe of Wormhill, gentleman, aged 40 years or more; Peter Barker of Belvoir, Leicestershire, gentleman, aged 63; Ann Taylor of Over Haddon, widow, aged 87; George Standley of Chelmorton, husbandman, aged 60; Thomas Hooson of Tideswell, husbandman, aged 40; Anthony Wright of Wormhill, husbandman, aged 71, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1656]; Samuel Dakeyne of Blackwell, yeoman, aged 60 years or more, whose memory goes back 45 years [to 1651].

Deponents for defendants: Alice Needham of Foxlow, Hartington, widow, aged 74, deposed that she knows the Chelmorton commons well because when she was a girl she tended her father's sheep there. The tenants have common of pasture and turbary there; Ralph Whit of Blackwell, tailor, aged 63, whose memory goes back 50 years [to 1646], deposed that there was a lot of pressure on the commons of Chelmortion already. The inhabitants have to pay to put their beasts on other commons due to overstocking. If the enclosures go through many will suffer; Thomas Lomas of Ryflatt, Chapel-en-le-Frith, yeoman, aged 63, whose memory goes back 40 years [to 1556]; Henry Morewood of Monyash, miner, aged 74, whose memory goes back 60 years [to 1636]; Ralph Crichlow of Monyash, miner, aged 53.