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Short title: Cook v Harrison. Plaintiff(s): Edward Cook, esq, Her Majesty's Attorney...
Catalogue reference: E 134/38and39Eliz/Mich29
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This record is about the Short title: Cook v Harrison. Plaintiff(s): Edward Cook, esq, Her Majesty's Attorney... dating from 1596 Oct 9-1596 Nov 29 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/38and39Eliz/Mich29
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1596 Oct 9-1596 Nov 29
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Cook v Harrison.
Plaintiff(s): Edward Cook, esq, Her Majesty's Attorney General, at the relation of Katherine Barber, widow.
Defendant(s): Roger Harrison, Emma Halam, widow, Dennis Backhouse, Agnes [illegible], Thomas Platts.
Subject of depositions: Right and title to cottages, lands, and tenements in Stony Middleton (Derbyshire),and lands in Hassope (Derbyshire); whether said premises were lands devoted to "superstitious uses" or parcel of the possessions of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and used for the support of divine service.
County/place: Derbyshire.
Date of commission: 30 June 1596.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 21 September 1596 at Stony Middleton.
Deponent(s): George White; Cuthbert Wylson; Stephen Greaves; William Sharpe; Thomas Ragg; William Dickenson; Richard Robertes; George Whyte; William Nedeham; Thomas Howson; Henry Harvye, alias Frenche; Richard James; Richard Harryson.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- E 134/38&39Eliz/Mich29
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- Litigation
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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