Short title: Starling v Attorney General. Plaintiff(s): Sir Samuel Starling, kt,...

Short title: Starling v Attorney General.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Samuel Starling, kt, John Mann, Hugh Hovell, Maurice Hunt.

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

Subject of depositions: Excise of beer and ale. in Norfolk and city and county of Norwich and the island of Lovingland (Suffolk). Touching the loss sustained by the revenue of excise in Suffolk and Norfolk in consequence of the contagious disorder called "the plague" and claim of allowance (from the Government) for defalcations made by the farmers of such revenue.

County/place: Norfolk; Suffolk.

Date of commission: 12 February 1669.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 6 April 1669 at Norwich.

Deponent(s): Thomas Fuller; William Cosh; Stephen Griggs; Abel Wright; John Lacester; Richard Harman; Reginald Pitfeild; John Girlinge; Thomas Nowell; Augustis Curtis (2); Robert Bocking; Robert Grube (2); William Hellwys (2); Richard Paine; William Curtis; Henry Clarke (2); Christopher Moore; Thomas Palgrave; John Ansell; Thomas Chickering; Peter Copping (2); John Curtis; Richard Browne (2); James Yeomans; George Gaunt (2); William Drake; Rebecca Benee; Edward Coppin; Jehosophat Davy; John Feuke; John Todd; Anne Barnfather; Thomas Allen; Edward Tompson; Thomas Coppin; Clement Shephard; Henry Wood; John Lowe; Edmund Hunton; John Elliot.