P103/3/8

Depositions (Copy)

n.d. (after 30 September, 1795)

From: 1795 To: 1797

1. Questions for interrogation of witnesses. 2. Depositions taken 30 September 1795 at the House of Wm. Palin called "The Bull" in Chalgrave. (Valuable for list of 18th century tenants of Chalgrave Great Farm, ages and ancestors of witnesses, and vicars & curates of Chalgrave. Depositions include those of David Willis of Leighton Buzzard, gent; Rev. Jn. Wilson of Leighton; Thos. Read of Tebworth, yeo.; Thos. Willison of Tebworth, yeo.; Wm. Shaw of Tebworth, Blacksmith.; Jn. Buttfield of Chalgrave, s. of Defdt.; Geo. Atterbury of Toddington, dairyman. Mentions the "White Horse" Hockliffe where the farmers gathered to pay their tithes and the "Queens Head" at Tebworth. According to one deposition, the payment of a tithe composition of £11-5s. p.a. on Chalgrave Great Farm dated back 48 years.)

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Palin, William,
Willis, David,
Wilson, John,
Read, Thomas,
Willison, Thomas,
Shaw, William,
Buttfield, John,
Atterbury, George

HOCKLIFFE, tithes, legal papers, Chalgrave Great Farm, curates, clergy, Hockliffe White Horse, Tebworth Queens Head