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Short title: Mayor of Bristol v Morgan. Plaintiff(s): The mayor, burgesses, and comynalty...

Catalogue reference: E 134/10Chas1/Mich42

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This record is about the Short title: Mayor of Bristol v Morgan. Plaintiff(s): The mayor, burgesses, and comynalty... dating from 1634 Oct 9-1634 Nov 28 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/10Chas1/Mich42
Date
1634 Oct 9-1634 Nov 28
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Short title: Mayor of Bristol v Morgan.

Plaintiff(s): The mayor, burgesses, and comynalty of the citty of Bristol.

Defendant(s): Richard Morgan, Henry Badman, Robert Pattison, John Holbrook, John Miller, Thomas Hopkins, George Wykes, Robert Pope.

Subject of depositions: Port of Bristol, and Kingroad Harbor, and Crewkerne Pell, on the Severn. Erection of "tippling houses." Alleged interference by defendants with "pitching of posts" and other privileges of plaintiffs.

County/place: Somerset.

Date of commission: 25 June 1634.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 17 September 1634 at Bristol.

Deponent(s): Abraham Lyne (2); John Horsam; Peter Good; William Brookeman; William Edwards; Richard Bond; Christopher Berry (2); William Melgrave; John Brooke (2); Thomas Cole (2); Stephen Keech; Thomas Phelpes; Thomas Hopkins; Richard Skinner; Henry Perry; Henry Elkington; Miles Lavington (2); Nicholas Merideth; Simon Stokes; Richard Griffith; John Pirrye; Samuel Fishpitt; Anthony Crosse; Richard Morgan; John Sesse; Walter Kemishe; John Baker; John Cotterell; William Wynter; John Hamme; Anne Read; William Lawrence.

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