191 Elrington v Polhill

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191 ELRINGTON V POLHILL

Edward Elrington of Birch Hall, Kirby-le-Soken, co. Essex, esq v Edward Polhill of Burwash, co. Sussex, clerk

April 1640

Abstract

The cause of this case remains unknown as only Elrington's bond of 25 April 1640 survives.

Initial proceedings

5/10, Plaintiff's bond

25 April 1640

Bound to 'appear in the Court in Arundel House scituate in the Strand within the parish of St Clement Danes without Temple Bar, London'.

Signed Edward Elrington

Sealed signed and delivered in the presence of John Watson.

Notes

Edward Elrington of Birch Hall, co. Essex, esq, was the son of Edward Elrington of Birch Hall, co. Essex, esq, and Sibbell, daughter and coheir of Thomas Haddock of Buriton, co. Southampton. Edward married Anne, sister of Sir Augustine Sotherton of Norwich, knt.

W. C. Metcalfe (ed.), The Visitations of Essex, Part I (Publications of the Harleian Society, 13, 1878), pp. 380, 392.

Edward Polhill of Burwash was the second son of John Polhill of Burwash (d.1611), and Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Fowle of Wadhurst, co. Sussex. Edward married Deborah, daughter of Robert Bankworth of Bow Lane, London. Edward's second wife was Jane, daughter of William Newton of Lewes, esq, whom he married on 10 July 1614. Edward became rector of Etchingham and died on 11 October 1654.

W. Bruce Bannerman (ed.), The Visitations of the County of Sussex in 1530 and 1633-4 (Publications of the Harleian Society, 53, 1905), p.187; A. W. Hughes Clarke (ed.), The Visitation of Sussex, 1662 (Publications of the Harleian Society, 89, 1937), p. 91.

Documents

  • Initial proceedings
    • Plaintiff's bond: 5/10 (25 Apr 1640)

People mentioned in the case

  • Bankworth, Deborah
  • Bankworth, Robert
  • Elrington, Anne
  • Elrington, Dorothy
  • Elrington, Edward, esq
  • Fowle, Elizabeth
  • Fowle, Nicholas
  • Haddock, Sibbell
  • Haddock, Thomas
  • Newton, William, esq
  • Polhill, Edward, clerk
  • Polhill, Elizabeth
  • Polhill, Jane
  • Polhill, John
  • Sotherton, Anne
  • Sotherton, Augustine, knight
  • Watson, John

Places mentioned in the case

  • Essex
    • Birch Hall
    • Kirby-le-Soken
  • Hampshire
    • Buriton
  • London
    • Arundel House
    • Bow Lane
    • St Clement Danes
    • Strand
    • Temple Bar
    • Norwich
  • Sussex
    • Burwash
    • Etchingham
    • Lewes
    • Wadhurst
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