Manor of Cumwhinton: John Robinson v. Joseph Gray: the defendant's plea, plaintiff's...

Manor of Cumwhinton: John Robinson v. Joseph Gray: the defendant's plea, plaintiff's replication, defendant's rejoinder, and (on dorse) details of witnesses; annotated in margin

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"Case" [Instructions for Counsel], for the Defendant endorsed "Carlisle 30th August 1715 Ch. Usher"

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The lawsuit concerned an alleged encroachment on land at Hood Holes in Wetheral, and the unjust detention of one bullock and two heifers there. The suit was for replevin [recovery of the beasts] and damges. Plaintiff claimed he was the lessee of the Duke of Portland at Hoodhole p. Wetheral in the Forest of Inglewood, "lately Inclosed", on the west bank of Eden. "The Case" recites the descent of the Manor of Cumwhinton from John Aglionby Esq., onwards; the boundary of the Manor; the deed by Edward de Cumquinteyne, then lord, to John de Penreth, 1332, and other ancient evidences now produced, including "An Ancient Coppy of the Bounder of the Forrest of Englewood", and "many" Court Rolls from 1555 onwards; that in John Aglionby's time (father of the present John Aglionby) in his dispute with the Dean & Chapter, as to lordship of Hood Holes and its then warren, the D & C"produced a Boundary in the Leiger Booke of the Abbey of Wedderhall which Included the Locus in quo [Place now in suit] now called Hood Holes", whereupon John Aglionby sued them, but the D & C conceded that Hood Holes was a parcel of the Manor of cumwhinton within their Manor of Wetheral; cites the Boundary settled in 1694, and that any minerals were worked only with Mr Aglionby's leave; that in the late lawsuit of the Forest Tenants v. Mr Aglionby, a number of tenants applied to Mr Aglionby through the bailiff for leave "to gett Hall Plaster"; that any D. & C. tenants who graved turf in Cumwhinton had it seized and burnt by the Cumwhinton tenants; how "the Lord Portland" prevailed on the tenants to become his, by threatening to burn their nearly-ripe corn "on the improved Wast[e]s of Cumwhinting", 1709; proofs of Cumwhinton's manorial status, and how it is that tenants from elsewhere in the Forest have cut wood in Cumwhinton; cites the witnesses to be called for each step (names of persons or documents) in the argument; ends with suggested moves for use in Court.