Short title: Attorney General v Duke of Albemarle. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General,...

Short title: Attorney General v Duke of Albemarle.

Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General, as well for and on the behalf of His Majesty as also for and on the behalf and at the relation of William Sanford and William Glyde, Esqrs.

Defendant(s): His Grace Christopher Duke of Albemarle, Margaret Rowe, widow, Hugh Spicer.

Subject of depositions: Harbour of Topsham and "places called Kenton and Star Crosse ", "places or creeks" called Dawlish and Tingmouth, the manor of Kenton, "places called Hocker's Sands" and "The Knobb" the key and crane of the harbour. Metes and bounds, etc. Touching the duties, tolls, "usually, antiently, commonly, and constantly" paid to or collected by the keymasters or the owners or farmers of the key and crane, for "ballastage, busshellage" etc. Whether such owners or farmers have used or enjoyed the sole right or privilege of ballasting or selling, furnishing, finding, or providing ballast of, to, or for the vessels coming, riding, and harbouring within the port between Exmouth and Topsham, which had occasion to take or use ballast at Topsham, Hocker's Sands, or the Knobb, or at or near Star Crosse or Kenton, or elsewhere in the harbour, at the rate of 4d. per tun? etc.

County/place: Devon.

Date of commission: 13 February 1688.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 16 April 1688 at Exeter.

Deponent(s): John Norris; Thomas Kempson; George Neeles; William Pullen (2); Jonathan Carter; John Frost; Richard Hempson (2); Thomas Moull (2); Charles Warren; John Godling; Edward Manning; Thomas Hempston; Thomas Sexton; John Dowdall; Thomas Cocke; Ralph Marson.