| Description | This box contains papers relating to a case in the Exchequer between Sir Edward Hales, a tenant of Tenterden rectory, owned by the Dean and Chapter and John Butler Pomfret and Walter Elphicke, owners of land in the parish. The case was brought by Sir Edward Hales in around 1807 due to a dispute over the tithe of hay in Tenterden. The defendents then brought a cross-suit against Hales. There are also copies of papers in a case between Nathaniel Collington and Robert Broadnax in the 1660s and one between Sir Thomas Hales and John Hales against George Stace in the late seventeenth century.
BB 28/97 is a rough list of the contents of the box, made by J B Sheppard who catalogued the Dean and Chapter's archive between 1873-1895. It lists the box as H H Box 28, standing for Howley Harrison, as the boxes were stored there before being removed to the basement in 1924 (according to Bunce's Schedule, vol 2). |