British History Online
'Orphanage', in Analytical Index to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia 1579-1664, ed. W H Overall and H C Overall (London, 1878), pp. 307-320. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/index-remembrancia/1579-1664/pp307-320
II. 169. Answer of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen to Sir John Fortescue, who desired to have the custody of an orphan, only daughter of the late Thomas Ridge, regretting their inability to comply with his request, it being against the ancient customs of the City, he not being a Freeman. 22nd April, 1601.
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Short title: Ashberry v Pratt. Plaintiff: Thomas Ashberrye ggent of St Martins in the...
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Reference: C 2/ChasI/A1/64, Description: Short title: Ashberry v Pratt.
Plaintiff: Thomas Ashberrye ggent of St Martins in the Fields, Middlesex, and Elizabeth Ashberrye his wife, and her brother and sisters Thomas Cotton, Dorothy Cotton and Isabel Cotton, son and daughters of Sir John Cotton kt of Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire, and of Dame Elizabeth Cotton his wife, both deceaseed.
Defendant: Walter Pratt gent of Ditton.
Subject: MONEY WHICH THE SAID DAME ELIZABETH COTTON, DYING 15 YEARS AGO, is said to have entrusted to Pratt for his children's benefit.
Document type: Bill (6 February 1645) and answer (19 April 1645).
Date: 1645, Held by: he National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s), Closure status: Open Document, Open Description