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Short title: Attorney General v Britten. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General on behalf...

Catalogue reference: E 134/1WandM/East2

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This record is about the Short title: Attorney General v Britten. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General on behalf... dating from 1689 Apr 17-1689 May 13 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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E 134/1WandM/East2
Date
1689 Apr 17-1689 May 13
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Short title: Attorney General v Britten.

Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General on behalf of His Majesty and of the poor of the parish of Saint Andrew, in the city of Norwich.

Defendant(s): James Britten, clerk.

Subject of depositions: Rectory and parish of Elvedon (Suffolk). Whether Sucklyn Jay, late of Holveston, the patron of said rectory, settled a portion of tithes in the said parish called "Hospitlers Tithes" on the defendant or on the rector of said rectory "for the payment of eight pounds a year to the overseers of said parish of St Andrew, in Norwich, freely discharged of all taxes for the benefit of the poor of said parish "? etc. Tithes.

County/place: Norfolk; Suffolk; City of Norwich.

Date of commission: 22 November 1688.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 14 January 1689 at Norwich, delivered into Court 9 May 1689.

Deponent(s): Bernard Skelton; John Jay; Samuel Scott; John Demee; Joseph Holey; Richard Pitcher.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
E 134/1W&M/East2
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3710642/

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