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16. Elizabeth Eggington v. Frauncis Eggington and John Eggington561

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Parchment Bill of Complaint   10 January 1609   REQ 2/414/40, m. 3  221

Parchment Commission   7 February 1609   REQ 2/414/40, m. 1  225

Parchment Answer   26 April 1609   REQ 2/414/40, m. 2  226

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Research Article
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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 32 , July 2008 , pp. 221 - 232
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2008

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Footnotes

561

Frauncis and Elizabeth Eggington sued together as a couple on 30 May 1597; see REQ 1/48.

References

562 ‘To him and his own’ or to himself and his family.

563 The area of a yardland, like the area of a hide (of which it was a unit), varied by locale. A half yardland was commonly ten acres (just over four hectares), but could be as little as seven and a half acres and as much as forty acres.

564 Rambling or wandering over (OED).

565 There are at least seven possible candidates who were admitted to Inns of Court between 1585 and 1595, six from Kent and one from Lincs, making a positive identification difficult: see Lincoln's Inn Admissions, vol. 1, p. 119; Middle Temple Register, vol. 1, p. 69; Gray's Inn Register, pp. 69, 74; Foster, Alumni Oxon, p. 1324; Inner Temple Admissions, p. 140.

566 ‘Pauper [admitted in forma pauperis] 9 January 1609. Writ under privy seal directed against the defendants to appear on the eve of the Purification next under pain of £100.’

567 Sir Roger Wilbraham, Master of Requests 1600–1616 (see Appendix 2).

568 The ‘three weeks’ (a return day) of Easter Term, 8–14 May 1609.

569 1609.

570 Hugh Alington, register or clerk of the court: see REQ 1/22 flyleaf; HMC Salisbury, vol. 16, pp. 55–56.

571 ‘To be returned in Easter Term next coming [3–29 May 1609]’.

572 I have been unable to identify these commissioners.

573 ‘The examination of this commission appears in a certain answer attached to this commission’.

574 i.e. ‘heard’.

575 i.e. ‘laziness’.

576 Annual costs, such as rent charges or annuities.

577 i.e. ‘on’.

578 Sir David Williams, ktd. 1603, appointed Justice of King's Bench 4 February 1604. See Shaw, Knights, vol. 2, p. 114; Sainty, Judges, p. 31.

579 The membrane is damaged.

580 Sir Edward Legh, or Lee, MP for Staffordshire 1584, Sheriff of Staffs 1584/1585, 1602/1603, ktd. 13 June 1603. See A.M. Mimardière, ‘Legh, Sir Edward’, in History of Parliament 1558–1603; Shaw, Knights, vol. 2, p. 111.

581 Sir William Whorwood of Staffs, ktd. 4 July 1604, Sheriff of Staffs 1605, adm. Inner Temple 1606, d. 1614. See Shaw, Knights, vol. 2, p. 134; Inner Temple Admissions, p. 176.

582 Presumably William Overton, Bishop 1580–1609: see Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, vol. 1, p. 556.

583 Sir Simon Weston, ktd. August 1599 (see Shaw, Knights, vol. 2, p. 97).

584 ‘Taken before us at Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire on 26 April 1609.’

585 ‘To the most excellent lord King in his Court of Requests at Whitehall. The answer of Eggington and others. Return the three weeks of Easter Term [8–14 May 1609].’

586 ‘Returned 11 May 1609 by Thomas Stokes, gentleman, sheriff of the county’.