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• According to http://books.google.com/books?id=YohnAAAAMAAJ&q=whitney+tutbury&dq=whitney+tutbury&client=firefox-a&pgis=1

William Whitney, Esq. received Tutbury in 1577 and was followed in that position by William Sparke in 1579. Since he was listed as "late" in the doc we just got, dated 1580, it appears that he must have died about 1579.

Locations

• London
• Honour of Tutbury

Parties

Others

• William Whitney, Esq., receiver of the Honour of Tutbury, son of James Whitney, Esq., of Clifford by Sybil Parry, sister to Mrs. Blanche Parry, nursemaid to Queen Elizabeth I.
• William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer - mentioned
• Richard Shipman, Citizen and Merchant Tailor of London, age 39, deposed in this document
• Mr Gilbert, servant to William Cecil, Lord Treasurer
• Blanche Parry
• Mr Rauffe Lane - owed a debt to Richard Shipman. See this page for a document mentioning two men named Rauffe Lane.

Transcription

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_________________ of Richard Sh[ipman] ______ The xi of February A(nn)o R(egi)na Eliz(abeth) xxij _________

Richard Shipman of Lond Citizen and m(er)chantailor of London of th'age of xxxix yeres or there abouts sworne and examined deposeth and saith as followeth

To the First inter(rogatory) he saithe that he did very well knowe the said Wm Whitney menc(i)oned in the said interr(ogatory) w(hi)ch Wm Whitney was as he thinketh Receyver of the honor of Tutbury and furth(e)r saithe that he hath known the said Wm Whitney ev(er) since two yeres before his deathe or there abouts And the occac(i)on of this exam(inants) acquaintance w(i)th the said Whitney was by the meanes of one Mr Gilbert S(er)vant to the Right honorable the L(ord) Trezorer who brought this exam(ina)nt acquainted with the said Whitney to th__ the said Whitney should be __ meane to Mrs Blanche Apparry to speake for this exam(ina)nt to Mr Rauffe? Lane? touchinge a debt ue by the said Mr Lane to this exam(ina)nt the w(hi)ch the sade? Whitney did accordingly at sundry tymes.

To the second interr(ogatory) he saith that at the shortly after the first acqua[intence] of this exam(inant) w(i)th the said Wm Whitney the said Whitney did decla[re] to this exam(inant) that his Aunt Mrs Blanche Apparry h[ad] gotten him the an office of Receipt the w(hi)ch office ______ kepe during his lief & he did knowe the same by ____

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The first five pages of this document were obtained by Adrian Benjamin Burke, Esq. and transcribed by Tim Doyle