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Accounts in: Short title: Attorney General v Haberdashers Company. Plaintiffs: Attorney...
Catalogue reference: C 101/1290
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1807-1840
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Accounts in:
Short title: Attorney General v Haberdashers Company.
Plaintiffs: Attorney General at the relation of the inhabitants of the town of Monmouth.
Defendants: Master and four Wardens of the Haberdashers Company and others.
Subject: houses and lands in New Cross, Surrey and charity buildings in Monmouth, Monmouthshire.
Details: list of tenants and rents, payments, disbursements, allowances including salaries for the Lecturer, Schoolmaster and Usher and payments to the poor.
Receiver: Thomas George Knapp, gent, Hambly Knapp.
Chancery Master: Robert Steele, Samuel Cox, William Courtenay, Robert Eden, Francis Paul Stratford, Robert Eden, John Dowdeswell, William Russell, Giffin Wilson, John Simeon
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Pay and pensions
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