Short title: Courtenay v Mayot of Honyton. Plaintiff(s): Sir William Courtenay, bart...

Short title: Courtenay v Mayot of Honyton.

Plaintiff(s): Sir William Courtenay, bart Phillip Levermore, William Boler.

Defendant(s): The mayor, aldermen, free burgesses, assistants, and commonalty of the borough of Honyton (Devon), Sir Courteney Poole, John Poole, Henry Fry, Sebastian Isaac, Sir William Drake, John Beare, JohnChichester, Gydeon Haydon, Richard Putt, George Southcote, John Hanbury, Samuel Hall, Hugh Vaughan, Thomas Blampin, John Gill, Thomas Southcote, Samuel Powning, Hy. Gaylard, William Richards, Henry Humphrys, Edward Ford, James Shepheard, Edward Saunders, Samuel Pomeroy.

Subject of depositions: Manor and borough of Honyton, of which plaintiff Sir William is "lord or owner." Customs of manor. Tolls of fairs and markets. Weights and measures. Touching defendants setting up "a public beame with weights within said burrough for the weighing of wooll, yarne, victualls, or other things there" and their claim to the sole right to the profits thereof. Also touching the alleged diversion of the custom of the frequenters of such market to other markets (e.g. that of Ottery St Mary). Annual profit of custom or duty on the weighing of wool and yarn particularly.

County/place: Devon.

Date of commission: 4 July 1688.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 16 October 1688 at Honyton.

Deponent(s): John Elmes; Joshua Northcott (2); Henry Pike; Richard Marshall; Sarah Marshall; James Meade; Jacob Hody; Samuel Pearse; Richard Chicke (2); Joan Longe; Thomas Hare; James Tiller (2); Thomas Lake; Tristram Stoneing; Thomas Hewes; Roger Andrewes; William Levermore; Grace Grove; Lewis Martin; Nicholas Basely; Daniel Call; Susanna Lamby; Mary Catterick.