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The National Archives: C 10/342/19
Prissick v Selliburne and Snowdon: York 1692
Brief
notes only:
Complaint of Oliver Prissick of Gisbrough, Yorkshire, yeoman, dated 12.1.1692
- Concerns the execution of the will of Metcalfe Saunderson (dated 16.11.1689, he dying shortly after), who was in turn the administrator of the goods and chattells of Willm Saunderson (will dated 16.4.1673, he dying a short time after).
- Oliver Prissick, Margaret Prissick (his wife) and George Selliburne were executors of Metcalfe Saunderson's will, but he was heavily in debt, and his personal estate was not sufficient to cover this debt.
- Complaint indicates there is considerable dispute over the unravelling of the estates of Metcalfe Saunderson and William Saunderson, and is further complicated by the fact that William Saunderson was involved in the execution of the wills of the parents of George Selliburne viz. George Selliburne & Jane Selliburne of Eston (Note: in Cleveland, North Riding of Yorkshire).
- Oliver Prissick is complaining that George Selliburne is combining with William Selliburne of Eston, Gent & Roger Snowdon of Eston, Gent to pressurise him into signing an agreement to pay George Selliburne £35, while Oliver Prissick claims that he is not indebted to him in any way.
Answer of George Selliburne & Roger Snowdon
- George Selliburne (the father) died intestate c. 1669, leaving a son George Selliburne and a daughter who later married Oliver Prissick (the complainant) and is since deceased.
- William Sanderson was father of Jane Selliburne, the widow, who later married Francis Harrison.
- William Sanderson was holding sums from the estate of George Selliburne the elder in benefit of George Selliburne & his sister who were infants
- Oliver Prissick had taken in George Selliburne to live with him when he married his sister, and the defendants are claiming that the money they are demanding from Oliver Prissick is the remainder of George Selliburne's inheritance from his grandfather William Sanderson. Oliver Prissick is maintaining that he has no money due to George Selliburne.