thanks Karen for the link. I will check it out and hopefully it will lead to answers. On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. LANGTON chancery references. Not on NA site. Anyone know how > I can access these? (joel langton) > 2. Re: LANGTON chancery references. Not on NA site. Anyone know > how I can access these? (Karen Palandri) > 3. Re: LANGTON chancery references. Not on NA site. Anyone know > how I can access these? (Amanda Kerby) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:17:36 +0100 > From: joel langton <[email protected]> > Subject: [B&S] LANGTON chancery references. Not on NA site. Anyone > know how I can access these? > To: "Bristol & Somerset List" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <CAAd9we5276j4N+34U=kqWAGnT8DA0D2vdyWUWE3DRfrnM= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi everyone, > > I continued my search for information on the early Bristol Langtons and I > found a couple of new clues. > > You might remember i mentioned a Captain Langton who was supposed to have a > monument at Mary Redcliffe. Well, I found out some more about him. He was > James Langton and he fought against the Spanish Armada in 1688, as captain > of the Unicorn, of Bristol. He later married Margery Hobbes (widow of > Nicholas Hobbes) sometime between 1600 and 1603. The archives have several > Star Chamber litigation documents between langtons and langtons and hobbes, > but the quotes I got for copies were expensive. Maybe because of the type > of records? > > I also found two chancery references, but they dont seem to be available on > the National Archives site: > Plantif: Margaret Gower, widow. Defendant: James Langton. Claim by lease. A > capital messuage or farm and lands called Knoll in the parish of > Bedminster, the inheritance of James Clifford esq. who demised the same to > Edward Gower. (SOURCE: Calendars of the Proceedings in Chancery, in the > Reign of Queen Elizabeth, Volume 1. Page 389) > > Plantif: Francis Mychill. Defendant: James Langton and Margery his wife. To > establish plantiff's title to a reversion. Copyholds in East Brent, holden > of the manor of East Brent, to which plantiff, being entitles in reversion > had agreed to surrender the same to Nicholas Hobbes deceased, the former > husband of the defendant Margery, as a security for money lent. (SOURCE: > Calendars of the Proceedings in Chancery, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, > Volume 2. Page 218.) > > Does anyone know how I can access these documents? > > Thanks > Joel > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:20:58 +0200 > From: Karen Palandri <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [B&S] LANGTON chancery references. Not on NA site. Anyone > know how I can access these? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello Joel, > > I googled and found that family search has a research guide in their Wiki: > https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England_Chancery_Court_Records > perhaps this will help you to locate what you're looking for. > Karen > > (SOURCE: > Calendars of the Proceedings in Chancery, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, > Volume 2. Page 218.) > > Does anyone know how I can access these documents? > > Thanks > Joel > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 10:02:34 +1300 > From: "Amanda Kerby" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [B&S] LANGTON chancery references. Not on NA site. Anyone > know how I can access these? > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Good question Joel and very useful link Karen. > > I have a couple of such documents in Chancery in time of Charles 1 which i > have put off even attempting to get because it seemed so complicated. > Reading that web link illustrates just how many subsets of classifications > there are, its quite mind boggling! > Someday I might just buy a plane ticket! > Amanda > From: Karen Palandri > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 4:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [B&S] LANGTON chancery references. Not on NA site. Anyone > know how I can access these? > > Hello Joel, > > I googled and found that family search has a research guide in their Wiki: > https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/England_Chancery_Court_Records > perhaps this will help you to locate what you're looking for. > Karen > > (SOURCE: > Calendars of the Proceedings in Chancery, in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, > Volume 2. Page 218.) > > Does anyone know how I can access these documents? > > Thanks > Joel > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET mailing list, send an email > to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET Digest, Vol 7, Issue 270 > **************************************************** >