Reference
Z813/2
Title
Manor of Willington: Common recovery
Date free text
27 Oct 1529
Production date
From: 1529 To: 1529
Scope and Content
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.
Archival history
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.
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