Witness Depositions – Elizabeth Rennison – 2 Apr 1690

Elizabeth Renison the wife or Wm renison of Stella in the County of Durham aged Sixty yeares of therabouts Sworne & Examined Deposeth: 



7:13	To the Seaventh and thirteenth Interr[ogator]y this Depon[en]t Saith she knows Stella Leadhill and Bladon Leadhill or the Low Leadhill and hath soe known the same for about forty yeares And saith that about thirty threee yeares since She hath heard One William Raine who was Steward to Sr Richard Tempest the Def[endan]ts father Say and Declare that Robert Chambers and Ralph Douglas took and Farmed of his <Ma[er]> Stella Leadhill and paid therefore yearly forty Shillings and afterward four pounds And hath heard the said Chambers and Douglas Say the Same.