Short title: Attorney General v Merringe. Plaintiff(s): Sir Jeffery Palmer, kt and...

Short title: Attorney General v Merringe.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Jeffery Palmer, kt and bart (Attorney General), and Sir William Morrice, kt, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, and his son Sir William Morrice.

Defendant(s): John Merringe, merchant.

Subject of depositions: French and Spanish wines brought into the port of Plymouth (during five years last past) by defendant in ships called "The John of London" and "The Almond of Plymouth." Whether defendant did "not forbeare to loade or cause to be loaden aboard the said ships the full quantity of twenty tonnes of wines of purpose, and in hopes thereby to avoide the payment or delivery of two tonnes of wine due out of every twenty tonnes to his Matie for the prisage thereof." Touching the prevailing custom of merchants, and the avoidance of payment of prisage by importing nineteen tonnes instead of twenty, or nine tonnes instead of ten.

County/place: Devon.

Date of commission: 26 June 1667.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 24 September 1667 at Plymouth.

Deponent(s): George Cruft; William Warren (2); John Brangwin; Jeremiah Harris; George Makeworth; Joseph Ashe; Yohn Clarke (2); Nathaniel Deeble; George Strelly (2); John Jope; George Bellew; Mathuseleh Johnson; Pascoe Olliver; Francis Cocke; John Martyn; James Hull.