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| | Sir George Middleton of Leighton |
 | | The tenants complained that Thomas Middleton `continually kept the said Park overcharged with multitudes of red and fallow deer, and allowed these to feed and depasture on the grounds and land of the tenants, so that they were unable to preserve their crops of corn and grain...'. |
 | | DDTo H/2, bill of complaint of Thomas Middleton to duchy of Lancaster, `1616' (but evidently the bill to which the above answer was a response); DL 1/267, replication of Thomas Middleton, 31 May 1616; DL 1/383, replication of Sir George Middleton, 6 July 1650; Remembrances, 23 Jan. 1649/50; Remembr. |
 | | Robert Browne of Lindeth, husbandman, held a house and eight acres of land of Sir George; Thomas Clerkson of Yealand Redmayne, labourer, similarly held a cottage and a rood of land and `freedome of Yealand commons'; Robert Lawrence of Yealand Redmayne, husbandman, similarly held a house and sixteen acres (ibid.). |
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