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Short title: Williamson v Johnson. Plaintiff(s): Ralph Williamson. Defendant(s):...

Catalogue reference: E 134/36Chas2/East23

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This record is about the Short title: Williamson v Johnson. Plaintiff(s): Ralph Williamson. Defendant(s):... dating from 1684 Apr 16-1684 May 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 134/36Chas2/East23
Date
1684 Apr 16-1684 May 12
Description

Short title: Williamson v Johnson.

Plaintiff(s): Ralph Williamson.

Defendant(s): Edward Johnson.

Subject of depositions: Undertaking entered into by the plaintiff (under bond or penalty) by order of the Lords of the Counsel of Scotland to convey persons (prisoners) sentenced under the laws of Scotland to transportation into some of His Majesty's plantations, and an agreement made by plaintiff with the defendant to bring such persons by the ship St Michael, of Scarboro', into the river of Thames. Touching the defendant's non-fulfilment of his part of the contract by allowing some of the persons to escape, thereby causing the detention of plaintiff's solicitor in a Scotch prison, to the great expense and injury of plaintiff.

County/place: London; Scotland.

Date of commission: 12 February 1684.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 18 April 1684 at Alnwick.

Deponent(s): John Trotter.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3710128/

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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission

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