Short title: Bradburne v Wigley. Plaintiffs: William Bradburne. Defendants: John...

Short title: Bradburne v Wigley.

Plaintiffs: William Bradburne.

Defendants: John Wigley and Henry Wigley.

Documents: depositions concerning manorial monopoly on corn grinding which the Wigleys have broken in Wirksworth and Cromford, Derbyshire.

Taken 16 April, 33 Eliz I.

Deponents for plaintiffs: Thomas Whitehead of Milnehouses, aged around 56, deposed that he had heard his father and other 'owd men' [old men] say that one Glossop was prosecuted years ago by Mr John Bradborne grandfather of the plaintiff; Thomas Johnson, alias Become, of Heage, yeoman, aged 4 score [80 years], whose memory goes back 3 score and 6 years [66 years], deposed that he remembers the second mill had been used as a fulling mill, and that 50 years ago Sir Humphrey Bradborne prosecuted a baker called Halliwell for grinding his corn elsewhere and that 60 years ago [1531] Glossop was prosecuted; John Fletcher of Howfield in Ashover parish, husbandman, aged 3 score and 3 years [63]; John Spakemen of Tansley, labourer, aged 3 score [60 years], deposed that over 40 years ago he was told by three named old men, two of Kirk Ireton and one of Wirksworth, that the official mill was well worked becuase of the manorial monopoly; Robert Toplis of Wirksworth, yeoman, aged around 80; Edward Bowne of Wirksworth, miner, aged around 30; John Spenser of Wirksworth, yeoman, aged 3 score and 6 or thereabouts [66 years]; Henry Aspinall of Wirksworth, shoemaker, aged around 55; Christopher Abell of Wirksworth, labourer, aged around 50; William Stafford of Wirksworth, baker, aged around 54.

33 Eliz

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Manors

Crown lands and estates