Short title: Short v Attorney General. Plaintiff(s): Peter Short, John Bryan, John...

Short title: Short v Attorney General.

Plaintiff(s): Peter Short, John Bryan, John Bishop, Rawson Hart, Benjamin. Smith, Alexander Lawson, Robert Stanney, John Stanney, John Hastings, the younger, William Wright, Noah Milner, Chr. Hastings, John Yates, Thomas Cannock, Francis Tinsley, widow, Robert Punshaby, Thomas Hill, John Grunnell, Samuel Hodgson, Henry Greathead, John Worts, William Pygott, Edward Atkinson, Thomas Pridgeon, William Milner, Samuel Lovell, Chr. Reynolds, George Pridgeon, John Smith, William Bilton, John Harrison, Robert Hodgson, William Ward, Francis Simpson, Samuel Gannock, Richard Tupholm, Richard West, Simon Lovell, Charles Gosling, Nicholas Wilkinson, Thomas Saull, George Boroffe alias Bowis, William Turrington, Thomas Porter, William Franks, Tobiah Butler, Matthew Wilkinson, John Ward, John Blessed, Thomas Pearson, Christopher Thompson, John Hall, Edward Beaver, Seth Tinsley, Josh. Portington, Robert Scott, Richard Milson, James Weymiss, - Robinson, widow, Thomas Grebby, Robert Beach, Samuel Sherriffe, Richard Vallentine, Robert David, John Cole, Matthew Phillips, Richard Moore, Edward Ellis, William Young, Eustace East, - Chaunce, widow, Thomas Young, Nicholas Clay, William Wright, Leonard Thomas, John East, Martin Smith, Francis Gibbons, John Enderby, Robert Smith, John Smith, John Browne, Thomas Robinson, Thomas Key, Thomas Clarke, Reuben Crisp, Zechariah Burton, William Penn, John Whaley, Anthony Johnson, Augustin Cheales, Thomas Tasker, Henry Evison, Richard Padley, John Wrightson, landholders, tenants, and inhabitants in the said soake of Bullingbroke, in Lincoln.

Defendant(s): The Attorney General, Sir William Massingbert, baronet, Richard Cuthbert, John Thornley, and others.

Subject of depositions: "Ea or Haven commonly called Wainfleet Ea and Wainfleet Haven." Touching the several towns belonging to the soake of Bullingbrooke, and the fens called the East Fenns, the Ea or Haven commonly called Wainfleet Ea and Wainfleet Haven, the towns called "the Levell Towns" namely Wainfleet, Croft, Firsby, Bratoft, and Irby (Lincolnshire). Touching the orders and decrees of the Commissioners of Sewers (defendants and others) about cleansing and scowring said haven.

County/place: Lincolnshire.

Date of commission: 28 November 1693.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 18 January 1694 at Spilsby.

Deponent(s): Robert Searson; Charles Barber; George Langley; Jarratt Johnson; William Bew; Richard Parker; Edward Bew; Nicholas Graves; Thomas Keale; Edmund Lawis; Robert Campion; Robert Holmes; Robert Havard; Richard Gooding; William Melbourne; George Davenport.