| Content Description | Copy of Thomas Vernon's receipt dated 15 Dec. 1724 for £310 from William Wenman as agent to the Earl and Countess of Oxford and Mortimer for the purchase of his church lease at Mansfield; note of new lease granted by the minister and churchwardens of Mansfield in trust for the Earl of Oxford; Vernon's action for trespass at the Lent Assizes 1726; his bill in Chancery against Wenman in Trinity Term 1727, after Wenman had delivered up vouchers for the payment of the purchase money; Wenman's answer and schedule of sums paid; Vernon 'maliciously prefers an indictment against Mr Wenman for wilful and corrupt perjury, Lammas Assizes 1728; further details of arguments; bill returned 'ignoramus' by the Grand Jury; further indictment, Lent Assizes 1728 [1728/29] and similar return by the Grand Jury.
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