Posted by Pati Blowers May on February 01, 19104 at 16:34:37:
1677 Complaint
(note:underlined words are my best possible guess but may prove wrong).
pg.1
To the Right honourable ______ Lord Guilford _________
of the Great Seale of England
Humbly complaining show unto ye Lordship your dayly Orate and Oratrix* William Thorowgood of the parish of Saint James Clerkenwell? in the County of Middlesex Esquire and Bridgett Worsley of Westminster in the said county of Middlesex Spinster That your Orate and Oratrix* did heretofore intrust and imploy one Leonard Upsall then of the Middle _______ London Gentleman since deceased to lay out and dispose of certain sums of money for them at interest And thereupon he the said Leonard Upsall did at several times lay out (end page)
pg.26
Oratrix* their said debt of three hundred pounds and interest of your said Orate and Oratrix* should discover the same And your said Orate and Oratrix* ought long since to have been paid all their principall and interest though the said sum of three hundred pounds and all interests for the same is all of it still behind and unpaid But now so it is May it please your good Lordships that the said Edward Pegg being dead the said Andrew Clayton by combynason (combination?) and confederacy with the said Dame Martha Rodes Elihu Snodgkin Samuell Barker and his wife (end page)
pg.32
of the Debt of the said Sir Francis and particularly of the said sum of three hundred pounds and interest due to your said Orate and Oratrix* and aforesaid and the said Samuell Barker and his wife have reserved great profitt and advantage out of the rents profitts and Co__gned of the said ground and out of the personal Estate of the said Sir Francis and have converted it to their own aforesaid But yet the said Andrew Clayton and William Lord Byron and the said Dame Martha Rodes together with the rest of the said confederated did utterly deny (end page)
pg.49
William Lord Byron thereby requiring him to appear in this honourable Court but also his Majesties most gracious and pr_____ a writ of subpena to be directed to them the said Andrew Clayton Dame Martha Rodes Elihu Snodgkin Samuell Barker and his wife and the rest of the said confederated when discovered thereby comanding them and every of them on a certain day and under a certain pain therein and thereby to be limited personally to be and appear before your Lordship in his Majesties high Court of Chancery then and there to make their answers to all and singular (end page)
Notes:
* may be Orative?
This complaint in total is 50 pages long and can be found at the Derbyshire Record Office. These pages have been kindly donated by Dennis and Shelia Heathcote and transcribed by Pati Blowers May to the best of my abilities.