Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. MR. CLARE'S OPENING SPEECH. Mat it please your Honour--There are two traverses, and having had some words with my friend, the Attorney-General, I propose to take Barton's traverse and Freckleton's traverse together. There are two lines: the Barton line and the Freckleton line. I propose to take the two issues together, but I shall have to deal with the pedigrees separately. The Vice-chancellor: Is there an issue in the case of Freckleton? The Attorney-general: The same issue, but they claim through heiresses. The Vice-chancellor: I have no record in the Freckleton case. Mr. Clare: It is in the one record, only the AttorneyGeneral asked me whether I was going to take the two cases together or separately. They claim through two daughters of John and Margery. I propose to take the two pedigrees separately; but they are so interlaced that one must deal with the case as a whole. Gentlemen of the Jury--The question which you will have to try in this case is this: One Richard Harrison, who died in 1863, at Warrington, died possessed of a considerable quantity of both real and personal estate. With the personal estate we have not anything to do, because that has been distributed amongst his next of kin, and according to the law of this country it does not follow that because certain persons comprise the whole of the next of kin, that they comprise the heir-at-law amongst them. Richard Harrison died intestate; and I think I shall have no difficulty in putting before you evidence that shews that he was descended from John Harrison, who married Margery Brown about the year 1636, but the exact date is not material. Amongst the persons who are before you to-day is the Attorney-General, who represents the Queen as Duchess of Lancaster, who is now in possessio...
