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Short title: Smythe v Lock. Plaintiff(s): William Smythe. Defendant(s): Thos Lock,...

Catalogue reference: E 134/13Jas1/Hil2

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This record is about the Short title: Smythe v Lock. Plaintiff(s): William Smythe. Defendant(s): Thos Lock,... dating from 1616 Jan 23-1616 Feb 12 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/13Jas1/Hil2
Date
1616 Jan 23-1616 Feb 12
Description

Short title: Smythe v Lock.

Plaintiff(s): William Smythe.

Defendant(s): Thos Lock, Henry Fortescue, George Armyn alias Armond, Richard Upsher.

Subject of depositions: Manor of Witham, and two water corn-mills parcel thereof, called "Newland Mill" and "Chipping Mill" demised by Crown about 9 August 3 James I, to Henry Smythe, at a reserved rent of 95l. Also touching defendants' mill in Witham, called Machins Mill. Was it ever reputed parcel of Bluntshall Manor? Alleged injury to plaintiff's mills by defendants diverting custom to theirs.

County/place: Essex.

Date of commission: 28 November 1615.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 15 January 1616 at Witham.

Deponent(s): Thomas Hall; Edmund Halles; Tobias Twede; Nicholas Tonstall (2); John Alixsander (2); William Haven; Thomas Bridges (2); John Hardinge; Thomas Porter; William Clayton; William Wytham; Alexander Brooke; William Borrowes; Robert Bouchard; Josias Sanso[...]e; Jeremy Garrard; Robert Hutt; John March.

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Record URL
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