• 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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  • Level of description
    item