Wherefore we, trusting in your wysedomes and discrecyons, willing to be acerteyned of the trewth of the premisses, will and desyer you, four, thre, or two of you at the least, whereof you the saide William Mallet to be one, at tyme convenient by you to be lymitted and appointed, that ye by virtue hereof do repair yourselffes to the sayd Manour of Northall and then and there calling before you all suche personns as ye shall seeme meete and convenient, ye do view and survey the waters and streames to the said Manour of Northall belonging, and the said water mylne newlye erected by the said Thomas Folkingham, and also do enquyer whether the saide mylne be erected and builded within the Manour of Northall or within our Manour of Leedes, and also whether the soyle of both sydes the water, whereupon the mylne standeth, be the proper landes of the saide Thomas Folkingham or not, and whether the dame of the said mylne be fixed and tied on both sides of the grounde of Northall or not, and from whence the becke called Shepskar Beck or Northall Beck cometh, and through what lordshippes it runeth, and how muche of it is our possessions as parcell of our Manour of Leedes and parcell of our saide Duchye, and howe much belongeth to the Manour of Northall, and where it taketh the name of Shepskare Beck, and where and at what place it leaveth it, and whether there hath bene a mylne in tymes past in the said Manour of Northall, and how long it had his being, and when it decayed, and for what cause it was decayed, and whether it were not decayed bycause it did stand upon our streame or not, and where it stoode, and whether the Manor of Northall be holden of our Manor of Pountefrete or of our Manour of Leedes or not, and by what services and what rent is payde, to whom, where, and when, and that ye do enquier of all and singuler the premisses and of the circumstances of the same, as well by view of the evidence, perambulacion, examinacion of witnes as otherwise. And that ye do also make a true and perfecte platte of the scituacion of the said myll and streame, and the ground of both sydes the same streame, and by all other wayes and meanes, by your good wysedomes and polycies ye do diligentlie enquyer of all and singuler the premisses and of

the circumstances of the same. And thereupon of your facts, doinges, and proceedings herein, we will and disyer you, four, thre, or two of you at the least, whereof you, the said Willyam Mallet, to be one, that ye by your writinges enclosed under your seales (with theis our letters and the same platte) do certifie our Chauncellor and Counsaile of our saide Duchie in our Duchie Chamber at our Palaise of Westminster, in the xyne of Easter next coming, Not fayling hereof as we trust you. Yeven at our said palaise under our seale of our saide Duchie, the vijth day of February, in the secunde year of our reign.

RY. ALINGTON.

CERTEN INTERROGATORIES.

Firste, Whether you do know any manor nere unto Leedes called Northall in the possessyon of Thomas Falkingham, esquyer, and whether the said manor is holden of the Quene's Manor of Leedes or of her Manor of Pomefrete, and by what servyce, and what rente it payth, and to whome and when.

Item, Whither the said Thomas Falkingham hath latelye builded and erected anye corne water mylne within the precyncte of the sayd Northall, and whither it is buylded within the manor of Northall, or within the manor of Leedes.

Item, Whither the soyle of both sydes whereupon the sayde mylne standeth be the propre grounde and landes of the sayd Thomas Falkynghams or not, and the dam of the sayde mylne be fixed and tied on bothe sydes of the ground of Northall or not.

Item, Yf you do knowe from whence one beck called Shipcar Beck or Northall Bek comethe, and through what lordeshippes it runethe, and how moch thereof is the Quenes possessyons, as parcell of her manor of Leedes, and howe muche belongeth to the Manor of Northall, and where it taketh the name of Shipcarr Beck and where it leaveth it.

Item, Whither there hathe bene a mylne in tymes past within the sayde Manor of Northall, and how long it had his being, and when it decayed, and for what cause.

Item, Whither it was decayde by cause it stode upon oure streame or not, and where it stode.

JOHN

Certen Witnesses examyned at Ledes xvo die Marcii, Anno Secundo Elizabethe Regine Anglie, etc., before Sir John Nevill, knighte, and William Mallet, esquier, by vertue of the Quenes Majesties commnissyone to them and other directid, for a matter in variance betwene Thomas Falkingham, esquier, partye, plantiffe, and Thomas Lindleye and Elizabethe, hys wyfe, defendantes.

OHN COTES, of the age of lxviijth yeares, sworne and examyned, to the fyrste interrogatorye dothe depose that he knowithe one hall neare unto Ledes in the occupacion of Thomas Falkingham, but whether it be a mannor or not, he knowyth not.

To the seconde, he sayeth that he knowith that the sayde Thomas Falkingham haythe latelye erected and buylded a new corn watter mylne within the groundes belonging to the sayd North hall, and further he cannot depose.

To the thirde, he sayethe that the said mylne is buylded and standeth on both sydes of the proper grounde and soile of the sayde Thomas Falkinghams, belonging to the sayde Northe hall, and that the sayde damme is tyed and fixed of both sydes of hys own proper grounde in lyke manner.

To the fourthe, he sayeth that the bek called Shyppcar Beck or Northe hall Beck comethe frome one well called Blaykaye Well, and so rennythe betwene the Lordshippe of Allonlaye belonging to William Franke, esquyer, and the parson of Addill grounde, and so comethe to Weitwood Smythez through the ground of the Quenes Majestie belongynge to the layte disolvid house of Christall of bothe sydes, and so long ys called Addill Beck, and from the sayd Smythes through the sayd groundes, lait belongyng to the said house of Christall and now in the tenure of one

Maister Craynmere, sonne to the lait byshopp of Canterburye, and so to Heddingleye More, beyng also the Quenes, and there he ys called Woodmylne Beck, and so to one bridge called Monke Bridge and there ys called Bentleye Beck, and from thens by a lordshipp of one Thomas Scott, esquier, called Newton, of the one syde, and the Quenes Majesties customary landes belonging to the Maynrede of Leedes within the Honor of Pomefret, of th'other syde, and therupon standith a mylne of the sayde Thomas Scottes, called Scotmylne, and there ys called Scott mylne Beck, and from thens it runeth to a playse of grounde of the sayd Thomas Falkynghams called Shypcar Ynge, of the one syde, by the space of a M foot and a halfe, and of the other syde, throughe the Quenes Majestes groundes within the Lordshipp of Ledes, and so through diverse mens groundes, but whose they be he knoweth not, and then through the ground of the sayde Thomas Falkingham belonging to the sayde Northe hall of the one syde, and the Quenes Maiesties landes and other mens belonging to the Lordshipp of Leedes of the other syde, but where it leaveth the name of Shyppcar Beck and is called North hall Beck, he knoweth not.

To the fifte and sixte he cannot depose.

EDWARDE MOXSON, of th' age of lxvj yeares, sworne

and examined, deposeth and sayethe, To the fyrste he sayeth that he haithe harde saye that there ys a mannor called Northe hall nere Leedes, and that yt ys holden of the mannor of Pomefret, and further he cannot depose.

To the secunde and thirde, he agreethe with John Cotes in every point.

To the fourthe, he agreithe with the sayde John Cotes savinge that he knowyth not Munkbridge, and further sayethe that when the sayde watter called Shyppcar comyth to one lytle beck called Oxclose Beck, yt ys called Northe hall Beck to the sayde mylne.

To the fyfte and sexte, he cannot depose.

EORGE MARSHALL, of th' age of lxij yeares, sworne

GEOR

and examined, deposeth and sayethe as Edward Moxson haythe sayde to the fyrste and secunde interrogatorye.

To the thirde, he cannot depose.

To the fourthe, he agreethe with John Cotes, addyng thereunto that Shyppcar Beck takethe the name of Northe hall Beck when Newton Beck comethe into yt.

To the fyfte and sixte, he cannot depose.

ADAM BAYNE, of th' age of xlviijth yeares, sworn and

examined, to the fyrste and secunde, he agreethe with

the sayd John Cotes hys cottestes.

To the fourthe, with hym also, adding further that there ys one hedge of the east syde of the watter called North hall Beck, which boundeth the Quenes groundes from North hall ground, and that both the sayde mylne and damme ar buylded and fixed of bothe sydes upon the proper grounde and soile of the sayde Thomas Falkingham, and so founde by verdit of xij men whereof he was one, the which verdit the steward wold not receyve.

To the fourth, he agreethe with the sayde Edwarde Moxson.

To the fyfte and sexte, he cannot depose.

THOM

'HOMAS RAWSON, of th' age of lxviij yeres, sworne and examined, to the firste, seconde, third, and fourth, he agreethe with John Cotes.

To the vth and vjth he cannot well depose, but he sayethe that there ys one parcell of grounde above North hall called the Mylne Hyll, and certen old tymber lyinge in the becke called North hall Beke where he think the old mylne stode, and further he cannot depose.

RICHAR

or

ICHARD BOYTHE, of th' age of xliiij yeres thereaboute, sworne and examined, deposethe and sayethe, to the fyrste interrogatorie he can saye nothing.

To the secunde, he sayethe that the sayde Thomas Falkingham haythe laytlye buylded a newe corne watter mylne besydes North hall, and further he cannot depose. To the thirde, he can saye nothing.

To the fourthe, he sayethe that he haythe hard Robert. Harrison who was very oft the grave of Leedes saye, that one Foster had the fyshinge of the watters and beck called Shippcar Beck, and payde therefore ijd by yere to the grave of Leedes, and further he cannot dippose to that interrogatorye. To the fyfte and sexthe, he cannot dippose.