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Short title: Attorney General v Earl of Ranelagh. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General,...
Catalogue reference: E 134/35Chas2/East45
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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Earl of Ranelagh. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General,... dating from 1683 Apr 25-1683 May 21 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/35Chas2/East45
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1683 Apr 25-1683 May 21
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Short title: Attorney General v Earl of Ranelagh.
Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General, at the relation of Francis Tyrwhitt.
Defendant(s): The Right Honble. Richard Earl of Ranelagh, Elizabeth his lady, Richard Lord Brereton and Frances his lady, Richard Kent, Charles Duncombe, and Patrick Trant.
Subject of depositions: Francis Lord Willoughby, Governor of the Isle of Barbados, and his brother (and immediate successor in the governorship) William Lord Willoughby, and the employment of the plaintiff Tirwhitt by Lord Francis "in and about his Maties revenue of four and a half per cent in the Barbadoes." Touching the equipment by said Lord Francis of a fleet at Barbados with fitting land forces to go to leeward against the French to reduce St Christopher's, and the credit, given by plaintiff (an officer in the customs at Barbados) for victualling, and accounts left unsettled between the plaintiff and Lord Francis at the time the latter was drowned or cast away in his voyage "to leeward" etc.
County/place: West Indies; Barbados.
Date of commission: 5 July 1682.
Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 10 February 1683 at Barbados, delivered into Court 23 April 1683.
Deponent(s): [unspecified].
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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