Description | in a case between Garwin Sheayn and John Moore complainants and Henry Earl of Huntingdon defendant, reciting information by Mr Serjeant Crewe counsel for the plaintiffs that George, late Earl of Huntingdon, agreed with the plaintiffs, copyholders of the manor of Melbourne, on his purchase of the manor to enfranchise their copy-hold lands, that George received from the tenants a great part of the purchase money but died before he could enfranchise the lands, that Henry agreed to the same step but will not enfranchise the lands, and for seven years has refused to accept surrenders and make admissions which with enclosures of the commons led the plaintiffs to execute a bill in Chancery. |