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Short title: Attorney General v Newman. Plaintiff(s): Sir Heneage Finch, kt and bart...
Catalogue reference: E 134/24Chas2/East18
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- 1672 Apr 24-1672 May 20
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Short title: Attorney General v Newman.
Plaintiff(s): Sir Heneage Finch, kt and bart (Attorney General), for and on behalf of His Majestie and of Sir William Morice the elder, kt, and Sir William Morice his son, bart.
Defendant(s): John Newman.
Subject of depositions: Collecting, the duties of "butlerage or prizage" of wines in the port of Plymouth or duchy of Cornwall, and in the ports, members, and creekes thereof, i.e. in the ports of Falmouth, Truro, Penryn, and Helston. Touching the accounts of Anthony Gross, collector of the duty under plaintiff's deputy (John Martyn), and the last will, of Gross (of which defendant is executor), including his lands in Milor (Cornwall).
County/place: Devon; Cornwall.
Date of commission: 12 February 1672.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 22 April 1672 at Plymouth.
Deponent(s): Peter Hill (2); Dennis Russell; Thomas Payne.
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