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Short title: Bulkeley v Bavand. Plaintiff(s): Sir Richard Bulkeley, kt. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/35Eliz/Hil9
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This record is about the Short title: Bulkeley v Bavand. Plaintiff(s): Sir Richard Bulkeley, kt. Defendant(s):... dating from 1593 Jan 23-1593 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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Date (When the record was created)
- 1593 Jan 23-1593 Feb 12
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Short title: Bulkeley v Bavand.
Plaintiff(s): Sir Richard Bulkeley, kt.
Defendant(s): Richard Bavand, and David Lloyd, aldermen.
Subject of depositions: Payment of "price wines" to Her Majesty in the port of Chester, and in Conway and Carnarvon (Caernarfonshire), and Bewmaris (Anglesea), and the farming of the "prisage" of wines, or "butlerage" of the wines by the plaintiff, and the mayor, of Chester. Customs of the port of Chester touching "prisage" of all wines brought thereinto by ships. Jurisdiction of the port. [The Right Honorable Lord Buckhurst, Chief Butler of England, is mentioned].
County/place: Cheshire; Caernarfonshire; Anglesea.
Date of commission: 16 November 1592.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 11 January 1593 at Ruthland.
Deponent(s): William Knight (2); John Aldersey; Robert Evaunce; Hugh Goodman; Edward Kytchin (2); Mawrice Gruffith; William Spicer; Robert Breerwood; Roger Ady; Gruffyth ap David as Lewis; Roland Hampsone [or Hampton] (2); Elice Barlowe; Hugh Holand; Hugh Frizer; Henry Gooden; William Pritchard; John Midleton; William Dodd; Ralph Smyth; Richard Rabon; Robert Evans (2); Alexander Cotes; Foulke Aldersey; William Aldersey; William Massey; Edmund Gamull.
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Litigation
- Food and drink
- Farming
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