Description | Depositions given by various witnesses, providing evidence on the behalf of the Defendant in the case of Sir Richard Newdigate vs. the Right Honourable Gilbert Coventry, in a case relating to the lease of lands and coal mines in the parishes of Griff and Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire. Witnesses included are: Robert Finsham of parish of Mesham, Derbyshire, coal miner. Henry Beighton of Griff in parish of Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, gent. William Handy, of North Littleton, Worcestershire, gent. John Parker of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, mercer. William Sutton of parish of Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, gent. John Shaw of Stockingford in parish of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, labourer. Thomas Buswell of parish of Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, labourer. Francis Taylor of South Littleton, Worcestershire, gent. Edward Williams of Pebworth, Gloucestershire, gent. George Harris of Grafton Flivard [Flyford], Worcestershire, clerk. Hugh Maids of Kington, Warwickshire, gent. Henry Holden of Erdington, parish of Aston Juxta Birmingham, Warwickshire, Doctor of physics [sic]. Robert Deakin of Fisherwick in parish of St Michael in Lichfield, Staffordshire, gent. William Stafford of parish of Sow, county and city of Coventry, coal miner. James Hawkins of Coleorton, Leicestershire, coal miner. Henry Lenten in parish of Sow, county and city of Coventry, coal miner. Includes details of the interrogatories put forward to the witnesses for the Defence. Formerly in box 1, bundle 3. |