Short title: Attorney General v Mayor of King's Lynn. Plaintiff(s): Sir Jeffrey Palmer,...

Short title: Attorney General v Mayor of King's Lynn.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Jeffrey Palmer, kt and bart (Attorney General), by information.

Defendant(s): The mayor and burgesses of Kings Lynn, Thomas Green, Robert Thorowgood, Henry Bell, Walter Kirby, William Wharten, Thomas Robinson.

Subject of depositions: Borough and port of Kings Lynn. Concerning money receivedby the corporation "upon ordinances of Parliament" "for the Earl of Manchester's arrears." How employed? In compensation to the inhabitants for the quartering of soldiers upon them? Touching a duty of 2s. per chaldron of coals in the port (levied by Act of Parliament of 1641), and disposal of the proceeds. Money paid to the corporation "upon subscripc'on of the proposic'ons soe "called of Parlt." Repair and re-edification of St Magdalen's Hospital in Heywood. Compensation to persons for loss sustained during the siege by the Earl of Manchester. Value of the possessions of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich in the borough (from 1641 to 1649) by whom received? What public money. received by the corporation since 1641, and how disposed of? Receipt of excise of salt brought into the port.

County/place: Norfolk.

Date of commission: 12 February 1664.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 18 April 1664 at Kings Lynn.

Deponent(s): Robert Greene (2); Joseph Braban (2); John Williamson (2); Benjamin Keene; Samuel Girlyn (2); Francis Rolfe (2); Francis Whalye (2); Thomas Codd; Jonas Scott; Jonas Davy (2); Joseph Greenwood; Roger Haynsworth; Thomas Brady.