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Reference Numberb705:73 BA14450/234/4
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TitlePapers relating to the case of Newdigate vs. Coventry
DescriptionBundle of various papers associated with the court case of Sir Richard Newdigate vs. the Right Honourable Gilbert Coventry, relating to the lease of lands and coal mines in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire. Documents include: legal summaries of the case; order for the Defendant (Coventry) to make a new lease to the Plaintiff (Newdigate) of all the lands mentioned in the original covenant, without prejudice; notes and remarks on the draft of the new lease for Newdigate; notice of injunction to stop Gilbert Coventry's actions of trespass against Newdigate; the answers of Sir Richard Newdigate, Defendant to the Bill of Complaint of the Honourable Gilbert, Esquire; order to amend words of injunction so that Coventry might proceed with the trial against Newdigate for actions of trespass on lands deemed not to be part of the covenant; letter from Newdigate to Coventry explaining he no longer wishes to be tenant to his whole estate, only renewal of the lands mentioned previously; terms offered by Newdigate to Coventry for a new lease; order for Newdigate to pay £20 for damages done to Reedy piece and £25 for those done to Hopyard meadow, and to pay costs incurred by Coventry when putting together the trial for the actions of trespass. Also ordered that the injunction should continue for the lands contained in the covenant in the lease, but not for the Defendant's other lands not mentioned in the covenant (Reedy piece and Hopyard meadow); bundle of invitations summoning all parties involved to meet with Thomas Gery to settle the new lease and related items.
Formerly in box 4, bundle 2.
Date1704-1709
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