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Short title: Queen v Robinson. Plaintiff(s): The Queen. Defendant(s): Robert Robinson,...
Catalogue reference: E 134/27and28Eliz/Mich17
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This record is about the Short title: Queen v Robinson. Plaintiff(s): The Queen. Defendant(s): Robert Robinson,... dating from 1585 Oct 9-1585 Nov 29 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/27and28Eliz/Mich17
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1585 Oct 9-1585 Nov 29
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Short title: Queen v Robinson.
Plaintiff(s): The Queen.
Defendant(s): Robert Robinson, searcher of the port of Her Majesty's city of Gloucester, and others.
Subject of depositions: Execution of his office of searcher of the ports of Gloucester by defendant in a manner contrary to the restraint of all manner of corn and grain whatsoever, made by the Lord High Treasurer of England, about the Feast of St Michael Tharchangell.
County/place: Gloucestershire.
Date of commission: 30 June 1585.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 10 and 11 August 1585 at Gloucester.
Deponent(s): Samuel Hooper; Edward Estuppe; William Combeley; John Halle; John Shawe; Thomas Turbill; Thomas Dowre; William Swanley; Richard Swanley; John White; John Morse; Morris Appowell; Richard Danyell; Richard Weale, alias Pumfrey; William Hyll; Adam Presbury; John Hodges; Henry Maskall; John Smyth; John Plevy; John Danyell; John Dryver; Richard Edwardes; Edward Bufford; Humfry Holman; Thomas Sharpe; Henry Machen; Nicholas Allen; William Leyghton; Andrew Boughan; Thomas Hayle; William Phelpes; John Brustar, alias Skynner; John Vaughan; WIlliam Dove, the younger; William Grasinge, the elder; Thomas Awyntle; Jasper Stone; Walter Chynne; John Thrumme.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- E 134/27&28Eliz/Mich17
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- Litigation
- Farming
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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