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Short title: Bagshaw v Temple. Plaintiff(s): Edward Bagshaw. Defendant(s): Richard...
Catalogue reference: E 134/31Eliz/Hil12
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This record is about the Short title: Bagshaw v Temple. Plaintiff(s): Edward Bagshaw. Defendant(s): Richard... dating from 1589 Jan 23-1589 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 134/31Eliz/Hil12
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1589 Jan 23-1589 Feb 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Bagshaw v Temple.
Plaintiff(s): Edward Bagshaw.
Defendant(s): Richard Temple.
Subject of depositions: Four messuages and five gardens in More Street, in New Windsor, sometime parcel of the possessions of the guild in New Windsor, called Trinity Guild, and whether let by the Crown to Nicholas Bartlet, at a reserved rent of 21s 8d; touching the "town book" of said town; alleged false entries made in the book. [A grant by the guild to William Symons, mayor of New Windsor, made by Richard Archard and Edward Kenner, wardens, and said fraternity in the 33rd year of Henry VIII. Whether soon after William Symons was mayor of New Windsor, he was punished for perjury "and did ride with a paper in his hat or cap with one Doctor London, in the town of Windsor, with their faces to the horses tayle. "? [Henry Holden, sometime mayor of the town, Elizabeth Symonds, John Heyward, and Matthew Figg, are mentioned].
County/place: Berkshire.
Date of commission: 20 November 1588.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 17 December 1588.
Deponent(s): Nicholas Bartlett (2); Frances Temple (2); William Gwyn (2); Robert Dale (2); Jeffrey Andrewes; Henry Walker; William Ritche.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Clothing
- Litigation
- Crime
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Record URL
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E 134
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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