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Short title: Sheriff v Parsons. Plaintiff(s): Richard Sheriff, clerk. Defendant(s):...
Catalogue reference: E 134/20Jas1/East11
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- E 134/20Jas1/East11
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1622 May 8-1622 June 3
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Sheriff v Parsons.
Plaintiff(s): Richard Sheriff, clerk.
Defendant(s): John Parsons, Judith Tomkins, Edward Laurence, and Susanna his wife.
Subject of depositions: Rectory or parsonage of Little Comberton. Tithes. [The possessions of George and Thomas Willoughby, lords of Comberton Manor, John Cale, Griffin Roberts, John Hancks, Sir Thomas Hancks, and Francis Horsepoole, incumbents of the parsonage, and of Francis Folliott and Richard Gosling, are mentioned].
County/place: Worcestershire.
Date of commission: 12 February 1622.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 12 March 1622 at Sudbury.
Deponent(s): Thomas Cresheld; John Pennell; Thomas Berrington (2); Nicholas Archbold; Stephen Maylard; William Warmstry; John Archbold, D.D; Thomas Clarke; John Wright alias Spooner; William Newman; John Byrd; Richard Beand; James Berrington; Thomas Pope; Margery Stymson; Sir Samuel Sandys, kt.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Topics
- Manors
- Litigation
- Tithes
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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