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Short title: Fox v Shaw. Plaintiff(s): George Fox. Defendant(s): Jonathan Shaw. Subject...
Catalogue reference: E 134/34Chas2/Mich6
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This record is about the Short title: Fox v Shaw. Plaintiff(s): George Fox. Defendant(s): Jonathan Shaw. Subject... dating from 1682 Oct 23-1682 Nov 28 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/34Chas2/Mich6
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1682 Oct 23-1682 Nov 28
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Fox v Shaw.
Plaintiff(s): George Fox.
Defendant(s): Jonathan Shaw.
Subject of depositions: Impropriation of the parish or chapelry of Bradfield, in York, and defendant's farms in the parish called "Hallbroome Farm" and "Greens" and the vicarage and parish of Ecclesfield (Yorkshire). Tithes.
County/place: Yorkshire.
Date of commission: 5 July 1682.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 5 October 1682 at Sheffield.
Deponent(s): John Hudson (2); Ralph Haigh; Francis Morten; Henry Bromhead; John Broomhead; John Greaves; John Stead (2); Henry Shaw; Nicholas Bray; Thomas Lord; William Haigh; John Fox; Edward Revell; Abraham Slack; John Yellott (2); John Woodhead; Mathew Hawkesworth; William Barlow; Andrew Bacon; Thomas Ibotson; Thomas Marsden; Godfrey Hooley.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Litigation
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- Farming
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