Catalogue description SOMERTON (KINGSMOOR) AND POPHAM ESTATES various

Various documents relating to disputes and litigation:

Exemplification of a certificate of depositions taken at Ilchester (1555), in a matter depending in the Star Chamber, between the tenants and inhabitants of the manors of Mylton Asshe and Witcombe, plaintiffs, and the tenants and inhabitants of Somerton and Sutton, defendants, concerning common of pasture on Kyngesmore at Somerton, 1556. Exemplification of the record in a plea of trespass coram domina regina concerning Henry, Earl Hunt, versus John Bayley, junior, and Kingsmoor at Somerton, 1567. (Two parchment documents).

Report by Edward Golding [?given to Francis Popham] concerning the trial in the Consistory Court at Wells of the title to the advowson of Wellington, circa 1720. (Paper section).

Exemplification, dated 1779, of the bill, answer, replication, interrogatories, and depositions of witnesses, in a cause between Dorothy Popham, complainant, and Edward Popham, defendant, for establishing the Will (Described in no. DD/PO/2 above.) of Francis Popham (1775). (One parchment document).

Copy of a case for the opinion of counsel on the provisions of a lease dated 1768 of Edward William Leyborne Popham, esq., held of the Manor of Publow, 1809. (One paper document).