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Short title: Coventry v Byron. Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Coventry, kt (Attorney General)....

Catalogue reference: E 134/20Jas1/Trin7

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This record is about the Short title: Coventry v Byron. Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Coventry, kt (Attorney General).... dating from 1622 June 21-1622 July 10 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
E 134/20Jas1/Trin7
Date
1622 June 21-1622 July 10
Description

Short title: Coventry v Byron.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Coventry, kt (Attorney General).

Defendant(s): Sir John Byron, the younger, kt.

Subject of depositions: Forest of Sherwood, and the chase called "Thorney Woods" belonging to the Crown, and the manors of Over Colwick and Nether Colwick. Touching "suit and service" alleged to be due by the defendant to the court of the forest for the lands he holds within same. Touching office of keepership of the forest Metes and bounds, liberties and privileges of the manors. Metes and bounds of forest Survey.

County/place: Nottinghamshire.

Date of commission: [unspecified].

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 27(?) April 1622 at Nottingham.

Deponent(s): Henry Wylde; William Aldred, clerk (2); John Digbie (2); John Burrowes; Thomas Blythe (2); Nicholas Lees; William Gibson; Christopher Slater (2); Hugh Trewman; John Parker; Mathew Barton (2); William Parker; Nicholas Cam; William North (2); Robert Crampton; Richard Trewman; Thomas Morley; Robert Mellars (2); Francis Wyron (2); Richard Blacknall (2); William Millward (2); John Wood (2); Genas Brinsley (2); Robert Martyn; Thomas Langdon, clerk; Zachary Saunders; Richard Wiggen; Bennett Walker; William Wyld; John Aldred; Montagu Wood; John Weston.

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Record URL
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