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Short title: Chever v Leeke. Plaintiff(s): Roger Chever (clothier). Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/30Eliz/Hil8
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This record is about the Short title: Chever v Leeke. Plaintiff(s): Roger Chever (clothier). Defendant(s):... dating from 1588 Jan 23-1588 Feb 12 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/30Eliz/Hil8
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1588 Jan 23-1588 Feb 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Chever v Leeke.
Plaintiff(s): Roger Chever (clothier).
Defendant(s): John Leeke, Robert Reynolds, searchers and informers.
Subject of depositions: Alnage due for broadcloths made by defendant (owner of cloth mills upon Cawne Water, within the parish of Cawne and Calson) to John Dauntesey, Her Majesty's alnager, in Wilts. Whether clothiers have refused to pay alnage to the farmers, alnagers, or searchers of London for cloths made in Wilts, Berkshire, Oxford, Gloucester, or elsewhere in England, although the same were brought to London for sale.
County/place: Wiltshire; England.
Date of commission: 27 November 1587.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 5 January 1588 at 'the Devizes'.
Deponent(s): John Dauntesey; William Swaddon; John Webb, alias Rawlyns; William Heyward; William Webb; Robert Webb; William Rawlyns; John Walforde; William Mudlecott; Robert Howse.
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Farming
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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