National Archives File E 134/11and12Chas1/Hil30
[Background Notes
‘A History of the County of Worcester: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1913’ (See British History Online link) the manor of Bredon, Worcestershire had passed before 1616–17 to Sir Edward FISHER, Thomas ALLEN and William ALLEN his son, who joined in conveying it in that year to William ALLEN.
William ALLEN forfeited all his lands to the king for debt in June 1631, and his estates in Bredon, comprising a capital messuage and land called the Downes, Bishop’s Field, &c., were granted in the following month to Lady Constance LUCY and Francis LUCY as long as they remained in the king’s hands. In 1637 this estate was sold by Sir Richard LUCY, bart., executor of Lady Constance, to George and Roger CORBETT. Before William ALLEN’S forfeiture the estate was sold by him to Sir Thomas BOWYER and Nathaniel STUDLEY in trust for Pedael HARLOW. They seem to have recovered it from ALLEN’S creditors, for in 1638–9 Sir Thomas BOWYER gave up his claim to Pedael HARLOW. Edward ANDREWS and his wife Elizabeth and John HARLOW were dealing with this moiety of the manor in 1660–1. The HARLOWS’ estate passed before 1676 to William DOWDESWELL of Pull Court, with which estate it descended until 1786.
This Court of Exchequer Court case seems to relate an attempt of the recovery from the King of the forfeited estate. E 134 only includes depositions taken in the country.
Possible baptism at Bredon, Worcestershire for William ALLEN, Son of Thomas ALLEN 17th April 1586.[1]
PCC Probate Lady Constance LUCY of Highclere, Hampshire, England, proved 1637.[2]
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Transcript of E 134/11and12Chas1/Hil30
Interrogatories to be [?] unto witnesses produced and examined on the part and behalf of Dir Thomas BOWYER baronet Pedaell HARLOWE and Robert MORLEY Esquire Complaints against Sir John BANKES his Majesty’s Attorney General Sir Robert LEE Knight and Robert LEE Esquire Defendants.
Imprimus in [?] do know the plaintiffs and defendants or any of them and how long hath you know them and whether did you know William ALLEN late of London Esquire now deceased.
Item whether do you know of the payment of thirteen hundred pounds by the [?] Complainant HARLOWE unto the said William ALLEN in his life time toward the purchase // of certain land of the said ALLEN in Worcestershire and Kent? Did you // for the said sum of 1300 paid to the said William ALLEN? Did you sell it out // and pay out for the Complainant HARLOWE to the said William ALLEN and was it all // paid in gold [whether] was [out?] Nathaniel STUDBY Esquire (now deceased) put // at the payment [….] Nathaniel STUDBY […. ] // the said bargain [manage] that […] // the said William ALLEN. Declare what you know and […] // [?] of the premises so well as you [can?]
Item. Whether until the said bargain were perfected did the William ALLEN for security of the said 1300 in the [mean] time actioned [?] [?] // Complainant [?] a [perogatsure ?] of 2600 whereof the the writing [?] […]
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[Depositions?] of [witnesses?] taken at the house of George WATSON in the city of York the fourth day of [January?] Anno Dm 1635 on the part and behalf of Sir Thomas BOWYER Baronet. Pedaell HARLOWE esquire and [?] Complaints against Sir Robert LEE and others Defendants.
Christopher AADEN [or HADEN] of Kirby in the County of York Gent of the age of twenty five years or thereabouts sworn and examined as followeth:-
To the first Interrogatory he say he knoweth Sir Thomas BOWYER and Pedaell HARLOWE [two?] // of the Complainants this deponent being [?] clerk or servant did in the // lifetime of the said William ALLEN pay unto the said William ALLEN about // custom or [?] fifteen hundred pounds of his said Majesties // monies for and about the purchase of certain lands in Worcestershire and Kent // as he remembers and the same was both in gold and money but the great // part as he remembers was in money. But whether Nathaniel STUDBY // in this [?] was perfect or not at the payment of the [?] // monies he doth not now remember. And further he […] cannot // depose.
To the third interrogatory he saith he doth not remember the entering of any // such [?] but […] certainly refer […] to the said [?] // [?] [?] [?]
E WOOD.
? HATTEY.
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[1] The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 174
[2] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wrag44/bredon/bredonvol1pt07.htm