Catalogue description Debtor: John Dent, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [Northumberland], gentleman. Creditor: James...

Ordering and viewing options

This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded.

You can order records in advance to be ready for you when you visit Kew. You will need a reader's ticket to do this. Or, you can request a quotation for a copy to be sent to you.

Details of C 131/112/18
Reference: C 131/112/18
Description:

Debtor: John Dent, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [Northumberland], gentleman.

Creditor: James Lawson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [Northumberland], merchant.

Amount: £40.

Before whom: Thomas Seymour, Mayor of the Staple of Westminster.

When taken: 28/01/1529

First term: 29/09/1529

Last term: 29/09/1529

Writ to: Sheriff of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Sent by: Chancery.

Endorsement: The reply of Roger Midforth, Sheriff of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: the execution of this writ appears in the inquisition.

Note: Inquisition and return: Date to be returned: 27/01/1531. Attached is: (a) The inquisition made on Mon.,10/12/1530, before Roger Midforth, Sheriff of Newcastle. The jury consists of John Morpeth, merchant, Oswald Chapman, merchant, Thomas Aylmer {Aylemere}, merchant, Richard Anderson, merchant, John Urde, merchant, William Nanson, merchant, a master-mariner, a draper, a capper, a yeoman, a dyer, a butcher, and a smith. They say that at the time of the inquisition Robert Brandling and William Carr, merchants, were seised of seven messuages, two mills, and 15 acres of pasture, in two closes in Newcastle, to the use of John Dent {Dente} and Katherine his wife, in the right of Katherine, worth £9 16s. 8d. a year. Three other feoffees were seised at the time of the inquisition, of 19 messuages in Newcastle, to the use of John and Katherine for their lives, worth £5 18s. 10d. John Dent had no goods or chattels there. (b) A rental of the lands and tenements, named above, worth £9 16s. 8d., and belonging to John Dent and his wife. On the dorse is another rental of lands and tenements, worth £10 14s. 6d.
Date: 1530 Nov 6
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

Have you found an error with this catalogue description?

Help with your research