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Short title: Mayor of Cambridge v Fydling. Plaintiff(s): Mayor, bayliffes, and burgesses...

Catalogue reference: E 134/21Jas1/East3

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This record is about the Short title: Mayor of Cambridge v Fydling. Plaintiff(s): Mayor, bayliffes, and burgesses... dating from 1623 Apr 30-1623 May 26 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/21Jas1/East3
Date
1623 Apr 30-1623 May 26
Description

Short title: Mayor of Cambridge v Fydling.

Plaintiff(s): Mayor, bayliffes, and burgesses of the town of Cambridge, and Charles Dawson, lessee of mills under said corporation.

Defendant(s): John Fydling, Hugh Humfrey, John Austen, John Carter, Robert Dickson alias Dickenson.

Subject of depositions: Mills called "The King's Mill" in Cambridge. Custom of "suit and grist" to the mills. Alleged injury to plaintiff by defendants diverting custom from the mill to mills of theirs, called "Bishops Mills ", "Hauxton Mill" and "Newnam Mills" etc. Survey.

County/place: Cambridgeshire.

Date of commission: 12 February 1623.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 25 April 1623 at Cambridge.

Deponent(s): Thomas White; Roger Slegge; Thomas Hardinge; Giles Barker; Robert Boothe; John Archer; Thomas Martyn (2); Arthur Amy (2); John Skepp; Robert Greene; Richard Newman.

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Short title: Mayor of Cambridge v Fydling. Plaintiff(s): Mayor, bayliffes, and burgesses...

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