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Short title: Fitzjames v Forester. Plaintiff(s): Sir John Fitzjames. Defendant(s):...

Catalogue reference: E 134/15Jas1/East1

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This record is about the Short title: Fitzjames v Forester. Plaintiff(s): Sir John Fitzjames. Defendant(s):... dating from 1617 May 7-1617 June 2 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/15Jas1/East1
Date
1617 May 7-1617 June 2
Description

Short title: Fitzjames v Forester.

Plaintiff(s): Sir John Fitzjames.

Defendant(s): Abraham Forester, clerk, George Miller.

Subject of depositions: Hamlets of Butterwick, Alveston alias Alfeston, and Westhall, in the parish of Folk. Metes and bounds. Tithes of the rectory of Folk. Whether a pension was paid to the late monastery of Sherborne in lieu of tithes? Tithes belonging to the prebend of Sherborn. [The names of William Hemeford and Walter Chubb, late parsons of Folk, are mentioned].

County/place: Dorset.

Date of commission: 12 February 1617.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 8 April 1617 at Sherborne.

Deponent(s): Brian Pope; Thomas Strowde; Robert Masters; Leweston Fitzjames (2); Richard Warman; William Lawrence; Richard Hebdich; John Manndfeild (2); George Horsey (2); Richard Wright; John Wynniffe; George Sterr; Henry Barnes; Thomas Hall; John Burte; Humfrey Ewmans; Silvester Viall, alias Harris; John Chepman; William Lacie; John Coome; James Balch (2); John Brokenburie; John Fitzjames; Ralph Horsey; John Pisinge; Bonfeild Chaffin; Robert Ringe, clerk; Robert Gannet, clerk; John Barbet, alias Aden; Thomas Scott; Gregory Miller; John Collens; William Manfeild; Aldred Chapple; Robert Burbidge; Thomas Nashe; Francis Scarlett, clerk.

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