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Short title: Attorney General v Samwell. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General and Thomas...
Catalogue reference: E 134/37and38Eliz/Mich40
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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Samwell. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General and Thomas... dating from 1595 Oct 9-1595 Nov 28 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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E 134/37and38Eliz/Mich40
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1595 Oct 9-1595 Nov 28
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Short title: Attorney General v Samwell.
Plaintiff(s): Attorney General and Thomas Harris.
Defendant(s): William Samwell, John Langham.
Subject of depositions: Two corne milles called "cotten milles" in the parish of Hardingston (Northamptonshire), and mills called "St Jeames Mills" alias "Samwell Mills." The plaintiffs charge the defendants with "turning and drayning out the high river water from the said cotton mills. ".
County/place: Northamptonshire.
Date of commission: 9 July 1595.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 23 September 1595 at Northampton.
Deponent(s): William Harrowdon; John Clarke; Thomas Craswell; Richard Jackson; William Weston; George Smyth; John Robertes; Hugh Sergent; John West; George Hall; Thomas Wrighte; Thomas Braye; William Corbie.
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E 134/37&38Eliz/Mich40
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Litigation
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