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[ELIZABETH I] - DERBYSHIRE Lease to Richard and Lucy Belton and their son Richard of lands in Weston, Derbyshire, Court of Common Pleas, 3 June [1587]
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[ELIZABETH I] - DERBYSHIRE
Lease to Richard and Lucy Belton and their son Richard of lands in Weston, Derbyshire, with scribal signature "Smyth", with the pendant Seal of the Court of the Common Pleas in brown wax attached by a vellum tag, docketed, on vellum, dust-staining, seal incomplete, cracked and repaired, 220 x 546mm., Court of Common Pleas, 3 June [1587]
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The seal of the Court of the Common Pleas shows an impression of the Queen enthroned on the obverse and the royal arms on the reverse. The Court dealt with matters of property and was considered by Sir Edward Coke, the great barrister, jurist and politician and who held the office of Chief Juror from 1606-1613, to be the 'lock and key of the common law'.

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