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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D231/M/E/484
TitleArbitration by William, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield in a dispute between William the Prior and the convent of the monastery of Our Lady of Tutbury and Humphry Okeover esq., concerning the following claims of the Prior denied by Humphry:
(a) 22s. chief rent claimed by the Prior for all lands which Humphry has in Okeover on the side of the brook there towards Mayfield
(b) 12d. rent for the "attachment of the weir" of Humphry's at Snelston Mill.
(c) Possession of a parcel of ground near Mathefeld Ryse {Mayfield Rise], enclosed by Humphry's ancestors and called by him Okeover Smith and a parcel of the manor of Okeover and called by the Prior, Mayfield Smith and a parcel of the manor of Mayfield
The Bishop awards the rents of the Prior and the parcel of land (Okeover Smeth) to Humphry with an annual rent of 2d payable to the Prior and requires the executors of Rauff Okeover, father of Humphry, to pay to the Prior 23s 4d arrears of rent on 29 Sep following
13 Oct
Date1494
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorOkeover family of Okeover
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