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

Catalogue reference: E 134/14Chas1/Mich22

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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Sheldon. Plaintiff(s): Sir John Banks, kt (Attorney... dating from 1638 Oct 9-1638 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 134/14Chas1/Mich22
Date
1638 Oct 9-1638 Nov 28
Description

Short title: Attorney General v Sheldon.

Plaintiff(s): Sir John Banks, kt (Attorney - General), by the relation of Francis Stewart, son to the late Earl of Bothwell, deceased.

Defendant(s): William Sheldon, Thomas Combe, William Barnes, Thomas Child, Robert Tupper, Anthony Langston, Thomas Lumbrick.

Subject of depositions: Right and title to Blockley Park lands in Northwick in the parish of Blockley (Worcestershire), the manor of Treddington. Touching also the bishopric of Worcester, John Throgmorton, Thomas Savage, Roger Lopez.

County/place: Gloucestershire; Worcestershire.

Date of commission: 13 June 1638.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 12 September 1638 at Moreton Hynmersh.

Deponent(s): William Freeman; Thomas Parkyns; Edward Walker; Thomas Hayward; William Webb; Nicholas Fletcher; Robert Chapman; Thomas Morris; Robert Heyward; Thomas Mansell; William Widdowes; Richard Nicholls; Joan Chapman; Mary Fletcher; Walter Childe; Thomas Barnes.

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Open Document, Open Description
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