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RefNoKMAN1/A/5/6
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TitleBrief for a case held at the Essex Assizes: Gabriel Ruck and others v William Hutton in a dispute about oyster beds at Hadleigh [Essex]
DescriptionDefendants: Gabriel Ruck, Richard Sturgeon, John Teken[?], Luke Breece, Henry Grace, William Bassett, John Roberts, William Carpenter, John Shippey, John Barham, Thomas Oakman, John Quested, Nicholas Styles and ...[?] Sturgeon.

Hutton, a tenant of Sir Francis St John baronet, accuses the defendants of, "in a hostile, riotous and tumultuos manner", entering his close called Hadleigh Ray, part of the Manor of Hadleigh in the parishes of Hadleigh Leigh and Benfleet, and using nets to remove a great quantity of oysters and so destroyed the oyster beds there. The land in question was purchased by Sir Francis St John from the Earl of Warwick's family 50 years previously and has been tenanted by Hutton for the past 30 years.
Date1737
CreatorNameThe Montagu family of Kimbolton Castle: estate and family papers
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives

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P/0088St John; Sir; Francis (1677-1756); 1st Baronet; of Longthorpe [Northants]1677-1756
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