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Interrogatories to bee ministered |
to witnesses on the part of Robert Barker esquier
plaintife | against Bonham Norton esqr. defendant
1. Imprimis do you knowe the partyes and the capitall Messuage or Mannor house of | Soudley and the demesue lands thereof and the ffarmes of Mr Thomas Berrington & Edward | Sayres John Drewes ffarme Meos farme John Craces house & lands and the ffree & | Coppie hold lands houses leases & ffishing sometymes Mr Barkers in Soudley Datchett | Datchett Shallows & Wraysbury in the Countye of Buckes and how long haue you knowne the same.
2. Item What was Soudley house with the outhouses barnes stables doue houses Malthouse | yards gardens and scite of the house worth to bee sold three or foure yeares past when Mr | Norton entred thereinto and is it not well sittuated about a mile from Winsor & vpon | the riuer of Thames.
3. Item doe you knowe the two orchards old & new & the Conygrae the hoppgarden | Nicroft & Rue Leas parcell of the demeanes of Soudley and lye<inge> about the house if yea | what quantitye of lands doe the same containe & what are the same yearely worth | to bee lett one cleere with another and what to bee sold without any housing & is there | not one acre of land in Rue leas aforesaid called the great acre & what is that | acre alone yearley worth & worth to bee sold and what hath bene paid for the | purchase of that acre as you know or haue credably heard.
4. Item What housing is vpon the farmes of Berrington Sayres & Crace what quantyty | of lands free & Coppie do belong to those farmes and what are the same worth by the acre | to bee sould one acre with another with the housing as they now are in lease what is the ê lease at Mees farme worth to be sould besides the rent resould to Eaton Colledge & vpon | the vnder lease & how doe you knowe the same and what is the great Acre in Rue leas | worth to bee sould.
5. Item What number of acres free & Coppie are belonging to the farmes of Berrington Sayres | Drew & Crace & what are they worth to bee lett by the yeare one acre with another together or | wth the housing & what are yor reasons therefore.
6. Item doe you knowe the houses or rentes that were Mr Barkers now in the tenures of Will | Taylor esq, Hollyman Wheeler Reade Chister Davis and Righton what are the same | worth to bee sold and what doe you conceaue the Coppie hold fishing & the fishinges held of | Eaton Colledge seuerally worth by the yeare and doe they not containe about two miles | fishing in Riuer of Thames.
7. Item doe you not hold parcell of the landes wch belong to Sayeres farme and what Rent doe | you paie for those lands yearely by the acre without any dwelling howse and are not | those lands and the other farme lands of like nature and goodnes.
8. Item haue not you diuers lands of yt yor owne in Datchett yf yea at what rates doe | you lett the same by the Acre yearly by bona fide. And are not yor Acres and the | plaintifes ?pasture-landes wth the howsing much alike in value to be sold lett accord to proporcõn.
9. Item at how many yeares purchase are ordinary landes <in Datchett aforesaid> vsually bene bought & sold | for and doe you knowe Thomas Hales his landes in Datchett wch is nowe vpon sale | what quantitie is the same, and what will the same wth the howsing yeild And are not Mr Barkers farme landes wth the howsing therein proportionably as good or better than that of the said Hales.
10. Item what were all the foresaid howses & free and copie landes leases fishinges | farmes & premisses with their appurtenances worth in grosse ?since to be sould in the | repute and estymacõn of the Cuntry when Mr Norton entred vpon Sowdley. And what | is yor iudgment vpon the value of the same.
11. Item did not Mr Norton since his entry vpon Sowdley pull downe parte of | the Mansion Howse and other vsefull buildings about yt, yf yea, what? | is the howse better now for sale & convenient or worser then yt | was at his entry. And was yt not well & conveniently howsed then & | doth he not suffer the other necessary outhowsing to run to great ruyne | and decay.
Daniel Hills
Nathaniel Weston |
