Catalogue description Short title: Danvers v Winchester College. Plaintiffs: Samuel Danvers esquire, Daniel...

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Details of C 2/Eliz/D7/34
Reference: C 2/Eliz/D7/34
Description:

Short title: Danvers v Winchester College.

Plaintiffs: Samuel Danvers esquire, Daniel Danvers esquire, Anthony Dulande, his wife Temperance, Richard Andrews, his wife Justice, William Howell, his wife Prudence, Robert Barker, gent, Henry Sacheverell, gent, George Blunt, gent and his wife Ann, on behalf of their respective sons.

Defendants: Warden and scholars of Winchester College [New College] in Oxford and the warden and scholars of St Mary's College near Winchester, Hampshire.

Subject: bill to establish rights of preeminence in admission to the said colleges; the bill states that William of Wickham [Wykeham], sometime bishop of Winchester, upon founding the two colleges mentioned, did make an ordinance that all the descendants of his blood should ever have the pre-eminence in admission to the said colleges; and the plaintiffs, on the behalf of their respective sons, claim the said right.

Document type: [pleadings]
Date: Between 1558 and 1603
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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