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Short title: Wyles v Toke. Plaintiff(s): John Wyles, Richard Poole. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/21and22Eliz/Mich32
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This record is about the Short title: Wyles v Toke. Plaintiff(s): John Wyles, Richard Poole. Defendant(s):... dating from 1579 Oct 9-1579 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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- E 134/21and22Eliz/Mich32
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1579 Oct 9-1579 Nov 28
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Wyles v Toke.
Plaintiff(s): John Wyles, Richard Poole.
Defendant(s): Richard Toke, Richard Coste, John Knight, Edmond Nott, John Everinge.
Subject of depositions: Hundred of Street, and the vills within the same, as to payments of the fifteenth taxation, namely the vills of Sellynge, Lympne, Ostynhanger, Bonyngton, Aldington, and Horste, the hundreds of Lougbrygge and Newchurche, the taxation was on the separate towns.
County/place: Kent.
Date of commission: 2 July 1579.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 26 September 1579 at Assheford.
Deponent(s): Stephen Hatche; Richard Knatchebull; Henry Denne; John Webbe (2); William Redsole; Thomas Woode; William Hylles; John Wylde; Edward Master; Arthur Yonge; John Brokeman; William Brokeman; John Frankys; John Rowe; John Crowche; Richard Welde; Henry Phillyppe; William Smythe; Sir Thomas Kempe, kt.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- E 134/21&22Eliz/Mich32
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Taxation
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3700685/
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E 134
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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