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Short title: Prowse v Bostock. Plaintiff(s): Robert Prowse, merchant, and others....
Catalogue reference: E 134/33Eliz/East9
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This record is about the Short title: Prowse v Bostock. Plaintiff(s): Robert Prowse, merchant, and others.... dating from 1591 Apr 21-1591 May 17 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/East9
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1591 Apr 21-1591 May 17
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Prowse v Bostock.
Plaintiff(s): Robert Prowse, merchant, and others.
Defendant(s): John Bostock, captain of Her Majesty's ship called The Crane.
Subject of depositions: "The taking of certain half-clothes and other merchandizes out of a bark called `The Merlin of Barstaple,' being in the high seas, whereof complaint being made to the Lords of Her Majesty's Privy Counsell, it was ordered that the said Bostock should be bound in this Court with sufficient suerties to answer such goods as should be proved by the said Prowse, and others, to be by the said Bostock unlawfully taken as aforesaid." [i.e. not being contraband].
County/place: Devon.
Date of commission: 12 February 1591.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 15 April 1591 at Barnstaple.
Deponent(s): Hugh Lake; Thomas Lake; Anthony Honey; David Cade.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Topics
- Clothing
- Litigation
- Trade and commerce
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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