ECR 26 176
Reference code
ECR 26 176
Title
Cottisford and Fringford, Oxfordshire: Letter concerning land dispute
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Item
Date
15 June 1606
Content description
Richard Wharton, to Mr John Clavering, fellow of Eton College. At Whitsuntide he spent an afternoon at Cottsford [Cottisford] walking the field with Mr Allen's tenant, Goodson, a good judicious husbandman, who showed him above a hundred acres newly ploughed the last season and sowed with oats, over which the tenants and inhabitants had before free pasturage. The lord is Sir Rowland Litton. Sir Richard Farmer, in the right of his lordship of Hardwique adjoining, claims a sheep rake for 400 sheep within the grounds of Cottsford, and brought his sheep to graze on the corn of the newly cultivated plot, some of which were pounded by Sir Rowland's bailiff. Since which, Sir Richard has sold the land and crop to Sir Anthony Cope who has composed the matter with Sir Richard who now drives his flock through his own grounds another way. This prejudices the College right of inheritance and the College tenants make no resistance.
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