Witness Deposition – George Harrison – 22 Apr 1667

George Harrison of Shitlopburne in Weredale in the County of Durham yeom[an] aged fifty nine yeares or thereabout Sworn and examined Saith as followeth.



1. To the first Interrogatory this depon[en]t saith that he knoweth both the Compl[ainan]ts and also knoweth all Thomas Alsoppe John Horton William Deacon John Harrison John Pilkington Cuthbert Emerson George Watson George <.........> Myres Godfrey Didsbury & John Evans & hath known them for divers yeares And also saith he knoweth the Parish in this Interrogatory named & hath knowne it fifty yeares last past And also knoweth severall tythable places within the said parish from whence he this deponent hath <carried> tyth lead  <.........................> Greenfeild Midgpits Langteyhead Allerclugh & another Grove in Burnhop lying upon the dikes.



2.3.  To the 2nd & 3rd Interro[gatories] he is not required to be examined. 



4. To the fourth Interrogatory this depon[en]t saith that fourty yeares agoe or thereabout he this depon[en]t was imployed as a Carryer of tyth lead Oare by one Thomas Emerson then Agent for the <......> men[ti]oned in his deposition to the first Interrogatory Which tyth he alwaies received in clean dressed & well washed Oare



5. To the 5th Interrogatory this depon[en]t saith that though he was a Carryer as aforesaid yet he never knew of any subtrac[t]ion or abatement from or out of the tyths of lead Oare at any time <....................> of the parish aforesaid concerning the digging getting or working of the same within the said parish nor never heard of any difference about the same till about Lammas last.