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Short Title: Attorney General v Earl of Leicester. Plaintiff(s): Edmund Prideaux...

Catalogue reference: E 134/1658/Mich6

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This record is about the Short Title: Attorney General v Earl of Leicester. Plaintiff(s): Edmund Prideaux... dating from 1658 Oct 23 - 1658 Nov 29 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/1658/Mich6
Date
1658 Oct 23 - 1658 Nov 29
Description

Short Title: Attorney General v Earl of Leicester.

Plaintiff(s): Edmund Prideaux (late Attorney General), Richard Pight, Edmund Berriman, Elizabeth Leeds, widow.

Defendant(s): Robert Earl of Leicester and his wife Dame Dorothy Countess of Leicester.

Subject of depositions: Custody, of the Duke of Gloucester and the Lady Elizabeth (children of late King) at Penshurst.

County/place: Kent.

Date of commission: 5 October 1658.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 23 October 1658 at Penshurst.

Deponent(s): Dorothy, Countess Dowager Of Sunderland; The Lady Anne Pidney; Thomas France; John French; James Minche.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3707615/

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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission

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