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Short title: Queen v Averye. Plaintiff(s): The Queen. Defendant(s): William Averye....
Catalogue reference: E 134/20and21Eliz/Mich3
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This record is about the Short title: Queen v Averye. Plaintiff(s): The Queen. Defendant(s): William Averye.... dating from 1578 Oct 9-1578 Nov 28 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1578 Oct 9-1578 Nov 28
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Short title: Queen v Averye.
Plaintiff(s): The Queen.
Defendant(s): William Averye.
Subject of depositions: John Irishe, a manufacturer of woollen clothes, who had a dieinge house in Congresburye, and a dwelling-house in Yatton.
County/place: Somerset.
Date of commission: 17 June 1578.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken September 1578 at Yatton.
Deponent(s): John Cotton; William Willett; William Erle; William Smythes; Richard Williams.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- E 134/20&21Eliz/Mich3
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- Topics
- Clothing
- Manufacturing
- Litigation
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