Short title: Beane v Attorney General. Plaintiff(s): Humfrey Beane, Thomas Williams,...

Short title: Beane v Attorney General.

Plaintiff(s): Humfrey Beane, Thomas Williams, Thomas Collyer, Thomas Calverd, Robert Davis, John Webb, Robert Adson, John Gosling, Owen Arthur, John Wilson, Samuel Vincent, William Powney.

Defendant(s): Sir Jeffrey Palmer, kt and bart (Attorney General), Sir Denny Ashburnham, bart Sir George Benyon, kt, Francis Finch, Edward Wingate (late Commissioners of Excise), William Forth, Dr of Lawes, Robert Huntington, Richard Kingdon, John James (present Commissioners of Excise).

Subject of depositions: Lease between said Sir Denny and others (Commissioners and Governors of Her Majesty's Receipt of Excise) and plaintiff Humfrey Beane, dated 17 Chas II of the farm of the duty of excise. Touching the loss occasioned to the revenue of excise in consequence of the infectious disorder called the plague, and claim of allowance (from the Government) made by the farmers of the revenue, according to the covenants of such lease.

County/place: Suffolk; Norfolk.

Date of commission: 12 February 1669.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 22 April 1669 at Ipswich.

Deponent(s): Richard Michell (2); Edmund Brome (2); Edward Gale (2); Thomas Paris (2); Simon Rosier (2); John Dawson (2); Luke Jours (2); Miles Wallis (2); Anthony St George (2); Thomas Nowell (2); William Keene (2); Richard Gray (2); William Howkins (2); Ralph Mathews (2).