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Short title: Coke v Shouldham. Plaintiff(s): Edward Coke, esq, Her Majesty's Attorney...

Catalogue reference: E 134/43and44Eliz/Mich5

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This record is about the Short title: Coke v Shouldham. Plaintiff(s): Edward Coke, esq, Her Majesty's Attorney... dating from 1601 Oct 9-1601 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 134/43and44Eliz/Mich5
Date
1601 Oct 9-1601 Nov 28
Description

Short title: Coke v Shouldham.

Plaintiff(s): Edward Coke, esq, Her Majesty's Attorney General.

Defendant(s): Thomas Shouldham.

Subject of depositions: Fen ground called "Broad Fen" alias "Spadgong" in Wigenhall (Norfolk); whether the holders thereof are chargeable with "the task" in the town of Wigenhall, or with "acersilvers" or with the "charges of sea-banks" or for the "diking or scouring of Wigenhall Waterlees, being a drain for the said fen." Touching the right and interest of Henry Kervile, Sir George Coult, Mr George Coult, and defendant to put cattle in the fen.

County/place: Norfolk.

Date of commission: 1 July 1601.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 10 August 1601 at King's Lynn.

Deponent(s): John Broke; Thomas Jaxkson; Edward Moore; Henry Smith; William Fenne; Gawyn Rochester; Thomas Clerke (2); Adam Robynson.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
E 134/43&44Eliz/Mich5
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Litigation
Sewerage
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3702672/

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