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Short title: Lawrence v Williams. Plaintiff(s): Geffery Lawrence, Her Majesty farmer....
Catalogue reference: E 134/19Eliz/East6
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This record is about the Short title: Lawrence v Williams. Plaintiff(s): Geffery Lawrence, Her Majesty farmer.... dating from 1577 Apr 24-1577 May 20 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1577 Apr 24-1577 May 20
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Short title: Lawrence v Williams.
Plaintiff(s): Geffery Lawrence, Her Majesty farmer.
Defendant(s): Robert Williams, William Hall.
Subject of depositions: Two pighehills of land in the parish of St Peter Marten, Bedford, lately occupied by Robert Smythe, and one pasture in the parish of St Cuthbert, lately occupied by Robert Parradon and the Claypitts, and concealed lands belonging to the late monastery of Newnham.
County/place: Bedfordshire.
Date of commission: 1 February 1577.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 16 April 1577 at Bedford.
Deponent(s): Thomas Dive; Henry Lawrance; Richard Lawrance; John Williamson.
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- Litigation
- Religions
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