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Short title: Attorney General v Lord Craven. Plaintiff(s): Sir John Banks, kt (Attorney...

Catalogue reference: E 134/14Chas1/East34

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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Lord Craven. Plaintiff(s): Sir John Banks, kt (Attorney... 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/East34
Date
1638 Apr 11-1638 May 7
Description

Short title: Attorney General v Lord Craven.

Plaintiff(s): Sir John Banks, kt (Attorney General).

Defendant(s): William Lord Craven, the bailiffs, of the boro' of Ludlow, Walter Long and his wife Dame Ann Foxe, Thomas Aldwell and his wife Awdrey, Rice Jones, Cosmeday Mellichop, Thomas Lewknor, William Pickering, John Bergwyn.

Subject of depositions: Moiety of three ancient corn-mills in Ludlow, parcel of Acornbury Monastery (Herefordshire), also the castle mills in Ludlow. Custom of "suit and grist" to mills. (i.e. grinding corn, etc.).

County/place: Shropshire; Herefordshire.

Date of commission: [unspecified].

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 19 March 1638 at Ludlow.

Deponent(s): Thomas Taylor (2); John Comber; Simon Cupper; William Hughes (2); Edward Stepple; John Fawlkner (2); William Gregory; Thomas Haynes (2); Richard Protherowe; Francis Tyther; Richard Pingle; Thomas Watkines; William Harper; Richard Clarke; Richard Bowdler; Richard Warde; Thomas Bowland.

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Record URL
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