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Short title: Benbricke v St John. Plaintiff(s): William Benbricke. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/24Eliz/East10
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This record is about the Short title: Benbricke v St John. Plaintiff(s): William Benbricke. Defendant(s):... dating from 1582 May 2-1582 May 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 134/24Eliz/East10
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1582 May 2-1582 May 28
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Short title: Benbricke v St John.
Plaintiff(s): William Benbricke.
Defendant(s): Nicholas St John, John Prater.
Subject of depositions: Farm of Imber, and the outlawry of Benbricke, at the suit of Alexander Staples, committed to prison by Nicholas St John, who was acting for John St John his father, John Prater being the chief clerk.
County/place: Wiltshire.
Date of commission: 12 February 1582.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 9 April 1582 at Warmyster.
Deponent(s): Thomas Chatterton; Edmund Benbricke; John Sherley; Thomas Bowlter; Elizabeth Small; John Cramedge; John Byshopp; Anthony Whyte; Philip Morgan (2); William Butcher (2); Thomas Barkesdale; William Jones; Jeffrey Pynnell; Mathew Spencer; Oswald Burwell; Christian Gawen.
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- Litigation
- Farming
- Prisons
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