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Grymshawe vs Wannesley [i.e. Walmsley]
The document is faded and missing a few sections. The contents add little to the above description. James had three sons – James, William and Richard.
The National Archives catalogue reference under “James Grymshawe” adds the information that the lands included property in Dutton.
Excerpts that can be deciphered:
James Grymshawe was possessed of land and tenement in O.... in Lancashire and Dutton.... and fourteen acres of land............in county of York
Son Christopher[?]
And had [issue] of his body lawfully begotten James William and Richard...............and so possessed of all the said lands and tenements................. The lands and tenements descended unto the said James son and heir of the said Christopher which James ....... the said lands and tenements........... thereof was seized in his demesne as of... tail by force of the gift aforesaid And had issue of his body lawfully begotten Richard [?] And...... the said James the said William his brother and....... of his bodie lawfully begotten And the said James so being possessed and seized of........and tenements After whose death all of the said lands and tenements descended unto the said Thomas........... and then unto the said James [?]..........entered unto all the lands and tenements and therof was seized in his demesne..... tail by force of the gift aforesaid And so being possessed............................. the right of all the said lands and tenements descended and of right with [?] to descend unto the said................... [Nicholas?] as....... and heir to the said Thomas.................... said James father to the said Thomas So [?] the.... good and gracious Lord then...... the charters and moneys... concerning the said lands and tenements............................. and possession of Thomas Walmsley of Blackburn in the County of Lancaster yeoman Robert Crymbleholme clerk and Agnes Grymshawe widow the [mother?] and........... of to..... be richer the not [piece missing] whether they be enclosed in.......and bays [?] or [Christopher?]..........said orator the..... Richard brother of Thomas [?] of the................ uncles remedy [??] by the good [piece missing] Lordship to....or............ behalf... interest considered [?] whereof... the pl...[?] the good and gracious lord
I can decipher a few simple words but can’t make sense of the last few lines!
The NA catalogue entry dates the document to 1518-1529. The petition is addressed to Archbishop Thomas Wolsey of York whose tenure in that position was from 1514 to 1530. Robert Crombleholme is named as a defendant and as he died in 1528 the petition must predate his death. The script suggests the petition was written earlier in the time period, or in a hurry. Although the plaintiff, Nicholas Grymshawe, was “of Westminster in the County of Middlesex” his family origins were likely in the Blackburn area. Some of the lands in question were in Dutton and there are Nicholas Grimshaw records in the 16th century for Great Harwood, Blackburn and Accrington.
Mike Murtha
Aug 20 2025
Crombleholme vs Parker 1658
NA C5/600/113
1.To the right honourable the Lord’s [?] Court of the Great Seal of England
2. Humbly complaining showeth [?] unto the Lords that -- orator John Crombleholme of Huntington in the County of Lancaster gentleman that the said orator happening to
3. enter marriage and take to wife one Abigail Nicholson daughter and supposed surviving heir of Edmond Nicholson late of Thundersley in the County of Essex esquire
4. deceased which said Edmond Nicholson was in his lifetime and at the time of his decease which happened about [blank] years since seized in his -- as of -- or
5. some other -- and indefeasible estate of inheritance of and in a -- messuage or tenement called Thundersley lodged -- lying and being in the said County of
6. Essex and of and in deeded [?] lands unto which land belonging and through [?] which all usually ---- and enjoyed being of the clear yearly value of one hundred pounds and upwards
7. and was also paid in fee [?] of deed [?] per [?] other means messuages lands tenements and hereditaments in the said County of Essex and elsewhere within the Dominions of England to the yearly
8. value of at least [?] one hundred pounds more and was likewise possessed of a very great personal estate amounting to three thousand pounds and upwards and being so [?]
9. paid and possessed as aforesaid about the time aforesaid to depart [?] this life intestate without making dispersion [?] of any of his said real or personal estate whatsoever
10. by awards [?] whereof all his the said Edmond Nicholson’s real estate as was ---- unto the said Abigail the orator’s wife as also the right of
11. administration of all and singular his personal estate she being daughter of him the said Edmond who had [?] then at this orator’s said marriage no other issue living
12. or were relation far [?] only and -- [smudged, not readable] named John Nicholson who long before departed out of England for the Barbados Islands and had not been heard of or from
13. of many years being eight years -- [?] his departure but was generally deduced and adjudged [?] to be dead and he the said orator further showeth ---- good and --
14. he the said orator being in a repute and capability of having -- [smudged] a comprehensible [?] estate by his said wife if the business -- handsomely carried and
15. this orator fairly dealt withal and not abased for want of ingenuity or skill in the land and Christopher Parker of Braithwaite [?] in the County of Lancaster ----
16. unto the said orator and pretending unto him that he the said Parker was skillful in the lands and could assuredly through such his experience and careful
17. felicitation in the business -- the orator in the possession of all his the said deceased Edward Nicholson’s real estate and likewise personal and get him the said
18. -- and possession of all his personal estate also if he the said orator would suffer him the said Parker to take upon him the felicitation and management of --
19. the said Parker alluding further that the same though [?] cost the said orator little or nothing for the felicitation he the said Parker having [?] told all other businesses
20 of his award [?] to follow which he could carry on at once and the same -- trouble and charges whereupon your said orator was in -- to give credit to the fair
21 and -- of him the said Parker and to condescend to let him have the felicitation of the said business and thereupon it was about two years since agreed between
22 him the said Parker and your said orator that he the said Parker should accordingly follow and felicit the said business for and on the behalf of him your said orator
23 and reckon and obtain for him not only possession of his the said Edmond Nicholson’s estate [sic] lands and real estate but also the ------- and possession
24 of all his the said Edmond Nicholson’s personal estate and your said orator in respect he the said Parker must be notified [?] to lay out some money and there-
25 abouts he your said orator should enter [?] into -- two hundred pounds or -- such like generally conditional [?] that your said orator should upon
24 a just [?] and true accompt to be given by the said Parker unto him of what he the said Parker should really disburse about your said orator’s business affairs
25 from time to time satisfied and pay all same unto him the said Parker and about of two hundred pounds or the like generally being thereupon drawn --
26 by him the said Parker or his order for him your said orator to seal he not at all doubting but that the same was conditional according to the agreement aforesaid
27 between them and he not so well billed in written hand as to discern [?] the wrong therein ---- [given?] him by the said Parker did accordingly steal [?] and --
28 the same as his art and deed unto him the said Parker well hoping that he the said Parker would have dealt not otherwise than uprightly and
29 with him your said orator in the -- But so it is May it please your good lordships that the said Parker having written [?] such bond sealed and
30 delivered him by your said orator did not according to his course [?] and undertaking with him your said orator so manage and solicit [?] your said orator
31 -- aforesaid as to get him the estate real and personal of the said Edmond Nicholson and settle [?] him therein but on the contrary did Parker out and cried [?]
32 that said John Nicholson who was supposed as aforesaid to be dead in the Barbados to return home into England and to avoid your said orator [John C.]
33 of the whole estate of him the said Edmond Nicholson his father and not only so but although he the said Parker did expand and lay out
34 little or nothing at all about your said orator -- aforesaid yet doth he the said Parker now plead that he made many journeys
35 to London out of Lancashire and thereby and otherwise did expend and disburse great sums of money for and on your said orator’s behalf to the
36 value of ---------- bond and that the same bond is conditional [?] -- for payment of moneys unto him and thereupon hath put
Etc etc
Wrinkles in the lower part of the document make decipherment difficult but there is no additional biographical information
Deposition of John Crombleholme; no other contents
Link to transcribed Crombleholme v Allen (1667)
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