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Short title: Attorney General v Chester. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General. Defendant(s):...

Catalogue reference: E 134/27Chas2/Mich29

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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Chester. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General. Defendant(s):... dating from 1675 Oct 23-1675 Nov 29 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/27Chas2/Mich29
Date
1675 Oct 23-1675 Nov 29
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Short title: Attorney General v Chester.

Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General.

Defendant(s): Thomas Chester, William Player, Francis Creswick, John Meredith, Henry Silcock, John Smyth, William Morgan, William Clement, John Peirce, Sarah Rich, Andrew Beams, John Watkins, Thomas Beames, Walter Jones, Thomas Coole, John Briant, Henry Smith, Roger Jones, William Webster, Jane Rich, Robert Kevill, Samuel Leonard, Robert Woodward, John Burges, Thomas Rosse, Nicholas Duffen, Francis Brayne, John Cottle, Thomas Ford, John Hedges, Elizabeth Whippy, Lazarus Underhill, Benj. Sparrow, William Tippet, William Bright, Isaac Bastin, Samuel Hind, Richard Beames, Isaac James, Richard Beames, Thomas Harding, Richard Jones, Andrew Nicholls, Henry Prattent, John Cribb.

Subject of depositions: Chace called Kingswood Chace, and the parishes of St Phillip and Jacob, Mangotsfield, Stapleton, and Bitton. Metes and bounds. Perambulation. Right of digging coals and stones. Common of pasture. What part of Chase is ancient demesne of the Crown? Touching the "inner bounds" of Chase. Incroachments. Survey.

County/place: Gloucestershire.

Date of commission: 23 June 1675.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 14 October 1675 at Barton Regis.

Deponent(s): Gabriel Jones (2); Brice Seed (2); William Rodbourne; Henry Jones (2); John Bynne; John Holbin; Edmund Tucker; Benjamin Bayliffe; William Brayne; Thomas Badder (2); George Clarke (2); Robert Dover; George Hacker; William Jones; John Owen; John Jones; Giles Curtis (2); Obadia Tucker; John Baber.

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