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Short title: Mayor of Bristol v Morgan. Plaintiff(s): Mayor, of Bristol, Thomas Pitte,...

Catalogue reference: E 134/5Jas1/Mich2

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This record is about the Short title: Mayor of Bristol v Morgan. Plaintiff(s): Mayor, of Bristol, Thomas Pitte,... dating from 1607 Oct 9-1607 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 134/5Jas1/Mich2
Date
1607 Oct 9-1607 Nov 28
Description

Short title: Mayor of Bristol v Morgan.

Plaintiff(s): Mayor, of Bristol, Thomas Pitte, gent, chamberlain of said city, Thomas Bassett.

Defendant(s): Thomas Morgan, Thomas Smithe.

Subject of depositions: Port of Bristol, and its rivers, etc. Touching the maintenance of posts in the harbour for mooring shipping, and in Crokern Pill especially. Also touching the bounds, of city of Bristol; the manors of Portbury and Easton in Gordane otherwise St George's (Somerset), the inheritance of Henry Lord Berkeley and the defendant Morgan. Hath the defendant Morgan the inheritance of the ferry across the Avon from Gloucester to Somerset? Customs of port. Metes and bounds. Survey. [The names of the port of Hungrode (member of Bristol), manor of Leigh (Somerset), Samuel Norton, William Burd, mayor of Bristol, (Rowneham), and "Pills" in the harbour, are mentioned].

County/place: Gloucestershire; Somerset.

Date of commission: 25 June 1607.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 22 September 1607 at Shirehampton.

Deponent(s): Richard White (2); […] Ricardes; John Lullett; Andrew Batten (2); John Hopkens (2); John Whitson (2); Samuel Norton; Robert Humble; Francis Kidnor; Thomas Whitinge; Andrew Mountzere.

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