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

Catalogue reference: E 134/3Jas2/Trin14

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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Jones. Plaintiff(s): Sir Robert Sawyer, kt (Attorney... dating from 1687 May 27-1687 June 15 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/3Jas2/Trin14
Date
1687 May 27-1687 June 15
Description

Short title: Attorney General v Jones.

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

Defendant(s): Gaynor Jones, widow, William Crosse.

Subject of depositions: Capital messuage or mansion-house called Leyland Hall (Lancashire), sometime heretofore the lands, of Robert Charnock, "a priest sometimes called Mr Manley." Whether sold by Robert Charnock ( "a priest who had taken orders according to the Church of Rome? ") to Grace Bold? etc. And touching a tenement called "Starkey's Tenement." Whether it was purchased by Grace Bold (late servant to the Lady Tildesley) with her own proper moneys. Touching a lease of the aforesaid premises made by Robert Charnock to Grace Bold and her sister Gaynor Jones (one of the defendants). Were the premises the property of Robert, and the lease intended to "any secret trust "?.

County/place: Caernarfonshire; Lancashire.

Date of commission: 6 May 1687.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 23 May 1687 at Carnarvon.

Deponent(s): John Edwards; Ellis Rowlands; Grace Wynne.

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Open Document, Open Description
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