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Short title: Mayor of Bridgnorth v Whitbrooke. Plaintiff(s): Bayliffs and burgesses...
Catalogue reference: E 134/2Jas1/Mich30
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- 1604 Oct 9-1604 Nov 28
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Short title: Mayor of Bridgnorth v Whitbrooke.
Plaintiff(s): Bayliffs and burgesses of Bridgnorth.
Defendant(s): Sir John Whitbrooke.
Subject of depositions: Bridge over the River Severn, between the high town and low town of Bridgenorth, the number of houses thereon, and the probable cost of building such another. Touching the weare above the bridge. Traffick. Value of the King's mills of Pendleston near the town.
County/place: Shropshire.
Date of commission: 27 June 1604.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 13 September 1604 at Bridgnorth.
Deponent(s): John Hughes; Rowland Peares; John Andrewes, alias Turner; Bartholomew Baker; John Wooseley; Richard Pall; Richard Moye; William Sayer; James Onyons; Jacob Taylor; Rowland Millner; William Hotch; Richard Tayler; John Wale; Thomas Gopp; Henry Goode; Thomas Boys; William Grove; John Morgan; John Jenkes; Richard Griffithes; James Harley; Ralph Bembowe; Roger Lloid; William Hughes; George Singe; Anne Paynter; Richard Browne; William Capper.
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- Litigation
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