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Short title: Mayor of Exeter v Shilston. Plaintiff(s): The mayor, bailiffs, and cominalty...

Catalogue reference: E 134/14Chas1/East25

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This record is about the Short title: Mayor of Exeter v Shilston. Plaintiff(s): The mayor, bailiffs, and cominalty... dating from 1638 Apr 11-1638 May 7 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/14Chas1/East25
Date
1638 Apr 11-1638 May 7
Description

Short title: Mayor of Exeter v Shilston.

Plaintiff(s): The mayor, bailiffs, and cominalty of the city of Exeter, Nicholas Spicer, Judith Wakeman, widow, George Langworthy, and his wife Elizabeth.

Defendant(s): Richard Shilston, Phillip Balston, John Bagwell, Thomas Allington alias Arundel.

Subject of depositions: Mills belonging to the city of Exeter called "Cricklapitt Mills" others called "Duryerd" parcel of Duryerd Manor, and others in Execland Manor. Custom of "suit and grist" to mills (i.e. grinding corn, etc.).

County/place: Devon.

Date of commission: 12 February 1638.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 12 April 1638 at Exeter.

Deponent(s): Roger Tuckfeild (2); Michael Joanes; George Rowe; Robert Sherwood; Nicholas Jefferie; James Fabian; John Sowdon; Stephen Robyns; Edward Burnell; John Levermore.

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