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Correspondence - Gregory Family

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Letter from John Gregory to his cousin Arthur Gregorye, thanking him for his hospitality when they last met and enclosing copies of his ancient evidences and other documents, an old register, and the names of his ancestors for the last 80 years who `departed owt of Lancashyre'. He is convinced that either he or Arthur has a good title to lands of which one William Gregory died seised, and urges him to pursue the matter. Dated at Manchester. Postscript gives details of John Gregory's ancestors beginning with Richard Gregorye of Hyghhurst, his great-grand-father.