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CROMWELL (OLIVER) Document in his name "inrolled at Westminster before Oliver St. John & his associated Justices of the Comon Bench", Westminster, 11 May 1657 image 1
CROMWELL (OLIVER) Document in his name "inrolled at Westminster before Oliver St. John & his associated Justices of the Comon Bench", Westminster, 11 May 1657 image 2
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CROMWELL (OLIVER)
Document in his name "inrolled at Westminster before Oliver St. John & his associated Justices of the Comon Bench", Westminster, 11 May 1657

15 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £2,500

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CROMWELL (OLIVER)

Document in his name "inrolled at Westminster before Oliver St. John & his associated Justices of the Comon Bench", being a plea concerning a land dispute between Andrew Hilly & Nicholas Peryn on one side and Edward Giles on the other regarding the rent on "...twelve messuages fifty gardens three hundred acres of land thirty acres of meadow... & one hundred acres of furze & heath with the appurtenances...", stating that they were resident in "...the tenements aforesaid with the appurtenances in their demesne as of fee & right in the time of peace in the time of Charles late King of England...", noting that Giles "...departed in contempt of the Court & maketh default...", elaborate foliate decoration in pen and wash to first three words and margins, signed "Robinson" above the tag, docketed on reverse; with seal of the Court of the Common Bench in brown wax, recto showing impression of the House of Commons, verso with indistinct impression of a map of England, Wales and Ireland, held by a vellum tag, one skin of vellum, black lettering slightly rubbed, dust staining at folds and verso where folded and exposed, seal worn, details indistinct with upper portion missing, oblong folio (465 x 700mm.), Westminster, 11 May 1657

Footnotes

The signatory of this document is most likely to be Sir Thomas Robinson who "...in Hilary term 1657... was able to purchase the immensely lucrative office of chief protonotary of the common pleas. This office usually changed hands for over £5,000..." (J.H. Baker, ODNB). His wealth financed the rebuilding of 7 King's Bench Walk and the purchase of Kentwell Hall in Suffolk in the mid-1670's. He died escaping a fire in King's Bench Walk in 1683, whereupon an iron chest was found in his rooms containing melted gold and silver plate thought to be worth nearly £10,000. Robinson's reports, memoranda and notes on common pleas cases from 1657 to 1678 are held by the Bodleian Library. The justice presiding over the trial, Oliver St John, had been King's Solicitor to Charles I, but he was also a supporter of Parliament and a key figure in bringing Archbishop Laud to trial for treason. In 1648 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, a post which he only lost in 1660 with the Restoration.

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