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DEPOSITIONS: Taken from witnesses in the Chancery disputes between Robert Barker v. Bonham Norton (1626-27)   •  DOWNLOAD DEPOSITIONS (PDF 756 KB)

 

 

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Interrogatories to be ministered for the examinacõn of William |

Windsor gent on the parte of Robert Barker esqr plaintife

against Bonham | Norton esquier defendant

 

Imprimis doe you knowe the parties, and the Mannor and farme of Vpton | in the Countie of Buck nowe in your possession? did not the plaintife Robert Barker | at severall times wthin fower yeares <last> past, deale wth you to purchase the said lease | and farme of Vpton? did you agree with him for it, yf yea, for what price? | and when did you first agree wth him for the same as you remember? was it | not about three yeares past or vpwardes? did you not therevpon giue | him  earnest, and take order to raise moneys to paie for the same? And did | you really intend to buy it, and pay for yt accordingly, And did not | Sara Barker refust to ioyne in the sale (being the defendants daughter) and | tell you that yt should not be sould, and so did not the bargaine breake off.

 

2. Item did not the said Robert Barker afterwards deale wth you againe to | buy the said farm, and did you then also agree so to doe, and to giue two | thowsand nyne hundred pownds for yt? did you not giue him five powndes | in earnest thereof, and bona fide intend to goe through for it, also to paie | the money? And was the default in you or in the said Mr Barker to your | knowledge, that the said bargaines or either of them were broken, or the | said sale hindered? And how long is it since this second agreement was | as you remember?

 

3. Item did not you agree to buy the said farme at another time for | three thowsand powndes, was there not an assurance then drawne  <& betweene whome> & | went that bargaine forward or noe? yf noe was yt not broken off because | Mr Norton would not agree to take the mney in parte of payment for the office of kinges printer, nor to giue acquittence for the same to that end.

 

4.  Item did you not alwaies find the said Robert Barker verie earnest | & forward in the sale of the said farme to paie for the said office? And | will not you yet be contented to buy the same, yf you may have it worth | yor money and good assurance. And did you euer tell Mr Norton that you | never meant to buy yt or noe? as he hath reported. And doe not you | knowe that Mr Norton would haue sould yt so as the money might not | goe towards the payment for the office?

 

                                                                        Daniel Hills

                                                                        Nath. Weston

 

 

 

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Item were you present when an Indenture for the sale of Vpton | was brought to the plaintife to be by him sealed to yow Mr Windsor if yea when & where & what was the date thereof did | not the plaintife declare himself to you & the rest then presente | that he would seale it & whence on the said sale soe as the | defendant, beinge to receaue the monies would give the plaintife ?any? | accquittances for the same received in part for the office | of the printer, & did not the defendant refuse to giue | any such accquittances yf hee, how knowe you the same | & that the plaintife refused to ioyne in that sale.

 

                                                            Daniel Hills

                                                            Nath. Weston.

 

 

 

 

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