Witness Deposition – William Tempest – 13 Oct 1690

William Tempest of Lumley Castle in the County of Durham Gent[leman] aged sixty yeares or thereabouts Sworne and Examined:

3:4	To the third and fourth Interys he saith he knows the way which leads from Ryton Woodside through the deft's land Called the peth or peth head to Stella Lead hill and hath soe known the said for forty yeares and saith the laine was then only reputed as a Brydleway and a Way for the use of the Deft's Ancestor And hath heard that Carriages hath been stopped by the def[endan]ts Ancestor or their servants till satisfaction was made for comeing that way