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Short Title: Smyth v Eaton. Plaintiffs: Thomas Smyth citizen and silkweaver of London...
Catalogue reference: REQ 2/266/57
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This record is about the Short Title: Smyth v Eaton. Plaintiffs: Thomas Smyth citizen and silkweaver of London... dating from 1594 in the series Court of Requests: Pleadings. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- REQ 2/266/57
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1594
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: Smyth v Eaton.
Plaintiffs: Thomas Smyth citizen and silkweaver of London and Elizabeth Smyth his wife.
Defendants: Thomas Eaton, Joan Eaton his wife, Henry Williams, Nicholas Lambert, Paul Eaton, John Gilbert and John Bonner.
Subject: performance of a promise made by the said Thomas Eaton in consideration of the marriage of his daughter, the said Elizabeth, to the said Thomas Smyth; leasehold tenements in Southwark by London Bridge.
County: Middlesex; Surrey.
Document type: Bill, two answers, replication, interrogatories, depositions.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Marriage and divorce
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REQ 2
Court of Requests: Pleadings
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