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Manor of Willington: Common recovery Exemplification of a Common Recovery with...

Catalogue reference: Z 813/2

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This record is a file about the Manor of Willington: Common recovery   Exemplification of a Common Recovery with... dating from 27 October 1529.

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Reference

Z 813/2

Date

27 October 1529

Description

Manor of Willington: Common recovery

Exemplification of a Common Recovery with single voucher in which John Croke, Oliver Leder and William Jefson (demandants or plaintiffs), acting by their attorney Henry Joye, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth his wife (tenants to the precipe or respondents), acting by their attorney William Knightley, Thomas Chapman (tenant in tail or first voucher) , and Hugh Hunt (common disseisor), re the manor of Willington with the appurtenances, together with one thousand acres of land, one hundred acres of meadow, one hundred acres of pasture, two hundred acres of woodland and forty shillings in rent with the appurtenances in Willington

The document recites a writ dated 18 June 1529 (enrolled in Court of Kings Bench, roll 436 Bedfordshire, at Trinity Term 1529) naming John Dunton, Richard Sutton, summoner, Thomas Doo, Richard Roo, John Hampden, knight, sheriff as pledges for the prosecution, and Robert Brudenell as witness.

Held by
Bedfordshire Archives & Records Service
Language

English

Immediate source of acquisition

Acc. no. 7891

Purchased for the Record Office with matching grants from the MGC/V& A Purchase Grant Fund and the Bedford Association for National Trust Members on 27 August 1997.

Unpublished finding aids
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Copies information

A futher copy is available at CRT 130 WIL 15

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Manor of Willington: Common recovery Exemplification of a Common Recovery with...