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Short title: Sawyer v Clopton. Plaintiff(s): Sir Robert Sawyer, kt (Attorney General)....

Catalogue reference: E 134/1Jas2/Mich40

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This record is about the Short title: Sawyer v Clopton. Plaintiff(s): Sir Robert Sawyer, kt (Attorney General).... dating from 1685 Oct 23-1685 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 134/1Jas2/Mich40
Date
1685 Oct 23-1685 Nov 28
Description

Short title: Sawyer v Clopton.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Robert Sawyer, kt (Attorney General).

Defendant(s): Martha Clopton, widow (sister of said Bishop), and Walter Clopton, executors of the last will and testament of the late Dr Isaac Barrow, late Bishop of St Asaph, deceased.

Subject of depositions: Last will and testament of Dr Isaac Barrow, Bishop of St Asaph, an almshouse in the parish of St Asaph (for poor women) said to have been built and endowed by him, and a free school in the parish which, it is alleged, he wished should be built and endowed out of his estate.

County/place: Flintshire; Cheshire.

Date of commission: 8 July 1685.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 17 September 1685 at St Aspah.

Deponent(s): Enbule Thelwall; George Williams; Margaret Williams; Jeffrey Moulding; John Guilbert; Thomas Lloyd; Edward Lloyd; Richard Parry; Revd Thomas Clopton; Revd David Lloyd; Philip Barrow.

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The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3710269/

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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission

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