Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor and favourite.- Hatton (Sir Christopher, Lord Chancellor and politician, c. 1540-91) Accusations of Elizabethan fraud in a legal complaint, addressed to Christopher Hatton, as Lord Chancellor, relating to the Manor of Harvies, Riseley, Bedfordshire, in which the Petitioner complains that the accused have: "made sondrie entries into the p[re]misses & have Contrived secret estates, among themselves to defraud yo[ur] said O[rator], of the p[re]misses and to disturbe his lawfull possession & estate therein" and requests that the Lord Chancellor grant the petitioner Elizabeth I's "gracious writ of subpena" to direct the accused to appear before the Lord Chancellor to both answer the accusations and be subject to his judgment of it, manuscript draft, in Secretary hand, in Elizabethan English, 1½pp., lower edges chipped slightly affecting a few words, tail slightly stained, browned, jug and flowers watermark, folio, [c. 1585].
⁂ An unfinished document with spaces for an amount of money. Elizabeth granted the Manor of Harvies in Riseley to Christopher Hatton.
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