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

Catalogue reference: E 134/1658-59/Hil8

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This record is about the Short Title: Attorney General v Earl of Leicester. Plaintiff(s): Edmund Prideaux... dating from 1659 Jan 24 - 1659 Feb 12 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/1658-59/Hil8
Date
1659 Jan 24 - 1659 Feb 12
Description

Short Title: Attorney General v Earl of Leicester.

Plaintiff(s): Edmund Prideaux (Attorney General), by the relation of Richard Pight, Edmund Beryman, Elizabeth Leeds, widow.

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

Subject of depositions: Lady Elizabeth, daughter to Charles I, and the Duke of Gloucester her brother. Touching their jewels, apparel.

County/place: Dublin.

Date of commission: [unspecified].

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 15 November 1658 at Dublin.

Deponent(s):.

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Record URL
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