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

Catalogue reference: E 134/1WandM/Trin1

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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 May 31-1689 June 19 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/Trin1
Date
1689 May 31-1689 June 19
Description

Short title: Attorney General v Britten.

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

Defendant(s): Joshua Britten, clerk.

Subject of depositions: Rectory and parish of Elvedon (Suffolk). Whether Sucklyn Jay, late of Holveston (Norfolk), patron of said rectory, settled a portion of tithes in the said parish called "Hospitlers Tithes" on the now defendant or on the "rector of said rectory for the payment of eight pounds a year to the overseers of the 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.

Date of commission: 13 May 1689.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 1 June 1689 at Norwich.

Deponent(s): John Willis.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former reference
E 134/1W&M/Trin1
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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