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Short title: Attorney General v Chester. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/33Eliz/Hil8
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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Chester. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General. Defendant(s):... dating from 1591 Jan 23-1591 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 134/33Eliz/Hil8
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1591 Jan 23-1591 Feb 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Attorney General v Chester.
Plaintiff(s): Attorney General.
Defendant(s): Robert Chester.
Subject of depositions: Granges called Thorndon and Waterden (Hertfordshire), and all lands belonging to said granges (lately recovered by judgment, upon an information of intrusion against Robert Chester, son of Sir Robert Chester), lying in the parishes or fields of Melborne, Barley, Barkway, East Reed, and Roiston (Hertfordshire, Essex, and Cambridge). Whether said premises were parcel of the late monastery of Tyltey (Essex). Whether leased by the abbot of Tyltey to the late priory of Royston.
County/place: Hertfordshire; Essex; Cambridgeshire.
Date of commission: 8 November 1590.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 7 December 1590 at Roiston.
Deponent(s): James Bolton; Francis Ridall; Thomas Chambers; William Cooper; John Harvy; Thomas Turner; Richard Turner; Thomas Blande.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Religions
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3701606/
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E 134
Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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