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Short title: Bedle v Miller. Plaintiff(s): Joseph Bedle, clerk. Defendant(s): Richard...
Catalogue reference: E 134/34and35Chas2/Hil4
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This record is about the Short title: Bedle v Miller. Plaintiff(s): Joseph Bedle, clerk. Defendant(s): Richard... dating from 1683 Jan 23-1683 Feb 12 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/34and35Chas2/Hil4
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1683 Jan 23-1683 Feb 12
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Short title: Bedle v Miller.
Plaintiff(s): Joseph Bedle, clerk.
Defendant(s): Richard Miller.
Subject of depositions: Vicarage and parish of Great Bursted, and farms in such parish called Broomehill, Westhouse, and Snagtayles. Whether the farms were parcel of the possessions of the late Abbey of Stratford and therefore (as "Abbey lands ") exempted from the payment of tithes?.
County/place: Essex.
Date of commission: 28 November 1682.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 16 January 1683 at Billericay.
Deponent(s): William Shelton; John James; John Nott (2); William Dunbarr; Francis Tanner; Thomas Danvers; George Cary; Daniel Hodges; Henry Farr; Samuel Andrews.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- E 134/34&35Chas2/Hil4
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- Litigation
- Tithes
- Farming
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