| Description | Comprising summary depositions by the Dean of Peterborough and by Adam Smythe, John Bocher, Edward Edwards, Thomas Norres, Richard Holmes, Christopher Smythe, Richard Rowse, Richard Pearson, Robert Bates, William Warde, John Baldwyne, Thomas Yarwell, Robert Millisent, John Slow, William Foster, William Warrener, Jane Gates, Jane Pultre, William Ashmore, Christopher Manning, John Villers, Nicholas Giles, Michael Beale, Robert Manning, Thomas Hewes, Richard Warren, William Danyell, Robert Sergeant, John Wilde, Rafe Shelton, Rafe Stretton, William Blyth and John Wildbore.
Two letters to the Dean of Peterborough from Thomas Lovatt of Astwell [Northants]: one mentioning an earlier dispute about the rights claimed by Gymges [?], another accusing Parson Baker and Sir William of lying (1579). One letter to the Dean from William Gunton (1608)
Also notes on evidence contained in several earlier documents including:
- papers held in the Orton Waterville parish records and at Pembroke Hall, partly relating to the extent of a field called Willake als. Wildlake Furlong nr. Orton Longueville;
- copy extracts from the court rolls of the Manor of Milton and Marholm;
- extracts from early leases to William Godfrey and then to Antony Holledge of the watercourses at North Water, Middleholme, Danestake [or Damstake] nr Bottlebridge, Alwalton and Wansford;
- copy will of Sir William Fitzwilliam the elder of Milton (1533).
Most documents are undated but the suit seems to have taken place in the 1570s. |