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Returned oyer and terminer commission, held at Southwark on 16-19 Feb 1518 by William...
Catalogue reference: KB 9/475/2
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1518 Jan 23-1518 Feb 12
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Returned oyer and terminer commission, held at Southwark on 16-19 Feb 1518 by William Blount of Mountjoy, John Fyneux and associates, under commission dated 6 Feb 1518 for diverse treasons, etc in Surrey (not in Letters and Papers of Henry VIII) returned into King's Bench on the quinzaine of St John (8 July) 1518 Trinity: file and roll; commission, m 16; panels, precepts and inquests, mm 4-15; enrolment, mm 1-3. Trial for treason of John Cowley late of London and of Henry Spencer, John Henne, John Johnson alias Brooke, Nicholas Stevynson and Edward Yong, all late of Southwark.
Number of membranes: 17.
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- Litigation
- Treason and rebellion
- Crime
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Court of King's Bench: Crown Side: Indictments Files, Oyer and Terminer Files and...
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