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Short title: Attorney General v Laiton. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/31Eliz/East10
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- E 134/31Eliz/East10
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1589 Apr 16-1589 May 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Attorney General v Laiton.
Plaintiff(s): Attorney General.
Defendant(s): John Laiton.
Subject of depositions: Right and title to a manor, lands, in East Layton (Yorkshire), lately belonging to Robert Laiton, attainted. [The names of William Laiton, Thomas Laiton, late of Scatterskelf, Robert Thornton, Marmaduke Lacy, Lancelot Holtbie, Sir James Layton, priest and steward to William Layton, and a suit between William Dent, plaintiff, and the now defendant, John Laiton, John Garth, and John Layton, late of West Layton, are mentioned].
County/place: Yorkshire.
Date of commission: [unspecified].
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 11 January 1589 at Richmond.
Deponent(s): George Brownles; George Lightfoote; John Wilson; Henry Layton; Hugh Hildreth; William Layton; Thomas Garthe; John Garth; Henry Dente; Bartholomew Slinger.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Topics
- Manors
- Litigation
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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