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Short Title: Grey v Vernon. [Cause code: SCEL-05909]. Documents: bill, answer/s,...

Catalogue reference: STAC 5/G8/38

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This record is about the Short Title: Grey v Vernon. [Cause code: SCEL-05909]. Documents: bill, answer/s,... dating from 1582 Nov 17-1583 Nov 16 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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STAC 5/G8/38
Date
1582 Nov 17-1583 Nov 16
Description

Short Title: Grey v Vernon. [Cause code: SCEL-05909].

Documents: bill, answer/s, replication, rejoinder, commission, interrogatories, depositions.

Plaintiffs: Edward Grey [illegitimate son of Edward Grey, Lord Grey of Powys deceased, and Jane Orrell or Orwell].

Defendants: Henry Vernon, calling himself Lord Powys, Michael Foster, John Vernon, George Whorde.

County: Montgomeryshire, Wales, Worcestershire, Shropshire and other counties.

Subject: lands of the barony of Powys; site of the late dissolved monastery of Buildwas Abbey, Shropshire.

Regnal year: 25 Eliz I. Case report, taken from Star Chamber Reports, BL Harley MS 2143, ed K. J. Kesselring (List and Index Society, Special Series 57, 2018): [799] Gray, plaintiff; Vernon, defendant, who exhibited his answer to the plaintiff’s bill by the title of Henry Vernon Lord Powes, but the court ordered him to answer upon his oath.. Easter 33 Elizabeth fo. 143 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].

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