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Short title: Attorney General v Digby. Plaintiff(s): Attorney General. Defendant(s):...

Catalogue reference: E 134/8Jas1/Trin4

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E 134/8Jas1/Trin4
Date
1610 June 8-1610 June 27
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Short title: Attorney General v Digby.

Plaintiff(s): Attorney General.

Defendant(s): Thomas Digby and Maria his wife.

Subject of depositions: Debts and property of Sir Everard Digby, knight, attainted at the time of his death; did he borrow money for his mother, and did it come to her hands. Also touching the wardship of the body and lands of Richard Ereswick, son of Sampson Ereswick, late husband of Maria Digby (one of the defendants), granted to Lord Gerard (1 James I), and purchase of such wardship for £1,000 for which Sir Robert Digby, Sir Everard Digby, attainted, and Thomas Digby became bound to Cuthbert Ogle, and to one Vernon, of London. How was the bond satisfied. [The names of Mr Blower, of London, Mr Bowes, Mr Bulbeck, John Digby, of Seaton (Rutland), Mr Falconer, Sir Edward Watson, of Rockingham Castle, Mr Duncombe, and Sir Thomas Bennett, as parties from whom money was borrowed to satisfy the bond, are mentioned].

County/place: Middlesex.

Date of commission: 15 May 1610.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 8 May 1610(?) at the sign of the Weeping Eye, in the Strand.

Deponent(s): Mary, lady Digby (2); Sir Thomas Bennett, kt; Thomas Bulbecke; Richard Daye (2); John Woodward; Anthony Falkner.

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3703549/

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