Short title: Attorney General v Garwell. Plaintiff(s): Sir Heneage Finch, kt (Attorney...

Short title: Attorney General v Garwell.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Heneage Finch, kt (Attorney - General), by the relation of the mayor and burgesses, of the borough of Boston (Lincolnshire).

Defendant(s): Bartholomew Garwell and his wife Alice.

Subject of depositions: Port and borough of Boston, and the alleged "forestalling and intercepting" of vessels (by defendants) from coming to the port, and unlading, of goods, and taking toll, at their wharfs and staiths in Skirbeckquarter, to the injury of plaintiffs by defrauding them of their customs' dues.

County/place: Lincolnshire.

Date of commission: 28 November 1673.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 6 January 1674 at Boston.

Deponent(s): Thomas Dickonson; Robert Francis; John Addams; George Slee; Elisha Jackson; Christopher Nobbs; Peter Addison; Joseph Ward (2); Robert Coxon; Richard Humfrey; Richard Atkyn; Thomas Welbye; Simon Cartwright; John Nicholson; Joseph Bell; Michael Storey; William Cartewright; John Browne; Richard Palfreyman; John Ellingham; Benjamin Johnson; Adlard Mell; Thomas Glaskin; Nicholas Smith; Henry Melsonby; Thomas Pulvertoft; Edward Baxter; Edward Shelburne; Robert Johnson; Luke Baxter; Richard Burch; Jeremiah Vasin; Edward Atkin.