Chancery Decrees and Orders (PRO C33/144 page 554 Rich and Thos Harlakenden v Blackwell and Wilkinson)
document 18300109
Rich Harlakenden
and
Thos Harlakenden
executors of
Mabel Stoner
plaintiffs
Mich Blackwell
and
Rich Wilkinson
defendants for as much as this
was this present day informed by mr
Baron#
counsel# that the defendants
Mich Blackwell
and
Wm Blackwell
his father deceased having heretofore a great sum of money granted a lease to one
Symonds
for five hundred years of the lands in the bill mentioned under which lease the plaintiffs live the defendant
Mich
now after his father's death avoided his own as under colour of a supposed deed of entail which he pleaded in his answer
as heretofore prayed that the said defendant
Mich
may bring the said deeds of entail into this court to be seen and perused which this court held reasonable and doth order the same accordingly unless the defendant
Mich
upon justice# hereof shall be the end of the term show good cause to the contrary