MRP: C22/955/10 f. 1
C22/955/10 f. 1
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//DEPOSICONNS of witnesses taken at the house of Michaell Hite called or knowne by the name of the//
//Shipp in the Citty of Canterbury the Seaventh day of January in the nine and twentieth yeare of the//
//Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance//
//and Ireland King defender of the ffaith xr before John Crane and John Copping gent, and James//
//Hardres esq:r Comissioners by vertue of a Comission, to them and to Richard Mayson gent or two or//
//three of them directed for the examining of witnesses in a cause depending in his Maties High Court//
//of Chancery at Westminster betweene Thomasine Austen widdow Complaynant, and S:r James//
//Oxinden (sic) Knight, Robert Petman George ?Dancy and Samuell ?Dancy defendants on the parte and//
//behalfe of the said defnd:ts as followeth//
//William Drayton of the precinct of the pallace of the Archbishopp of Canterbury in the//
//County of Kent gent allready sworne and exammined on the parte & behalfe of the said Complt//
//and now produced on the behalfe of the defendts deposeth as followeth//
//To the ffifth and sixt Interrogatories this deponent saith, That hee doth beleeve that S:r James//
//Oxinden in theis Interries named did pay to Robert Petman one of the defendants the summe of//
//sixe hundred pounds, and that hee did pay to George Dancy and Samuel Dancy two of the others of the//
//defendents the summe of ffower hundred pounds and further to theis Interries hee cannot depose//
//To the eight Interrie this deponent saith, That at the time when this deponent and the Complaint//
//Austen did acquainte S:r James Oxinden that shee had a right to the Lands in question that this deponent//
//did not nor the Complainant to this deponents knowledge, shew to the said defendant S:r James any//
//decree or other writing concerning ther title to the said Lands in question, but hee this deponent saith//
//that hee hath seen such a decree himselfe divers times & further hee cannot depose//
//John Reynolds a witness allready examined on the parte and behalfe of the Complain:t &//
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