C3/7/93

Ballard v. Thomson

Bill of Complaint of William Ballard,

2 May 1560,

William Ballard of Radcliffe on Trent, gent., owner in fee of one messuage, two cottages, three yards and two orchards, fifty acres of land, ten acres of meadow, 30 acres of pasture at ten shillings of rent, with appurtenances in Radcliffe and Lamcote in Notts.  Recently three deeds and writings relating to these lands and properties have come ‘casually’ into the hands of Agnes Thompson, widow, and John Rossell esq., and she has been receiving the rents and profits without any just title or lawful conveyance. He has ‘very gently’ asked Thompson and Rossell for the deeds and for him to peacefully occupy the property but they have refused. Ask that they be subpoenaed to appear before the court to answer these complaints.