Short title: Attorney General v Archbishop of Canterbury. Plaintiff(s): The Attorney...

Short title: Attorney General v Archbishop of Canterbury.

Plaintiff(s): The Attorney General at the relation of George Watson, esq.

Defendant(s): The Most Revd. Father in God John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Nordash Rand, Robert Jefferys, Thomas Sampson, Mary Watts, widow, John Eastes, Martha Knight, widow, Richard Neale, Margaret Potter, widow, Thomas Rayston, Phebe Scott, widow, Edward Ellis, Mary Webb, widow, Thomas Dale, Elizabeth Gill, widow, Elizabeth Brothers, Elizabeth Sawyer, widow, William. Smith, Anne Petts, widow, Henry Baines, Ann Bing, widow, John Wootton, Robert Wood, Charles Thompson and his wife Priscilla, Andrew Trale, Toby Bowles, John Underdown, Thomas Westfield, Andrew Hague, Thomas Brothers, Valentine Bowles, Sara Diggerson, Thomas Jewell, John Holloway, John Sampson, Richard Smith, the elder, John Kelsey, Daniel Pope, Elizabeth Downing, widow, Richard Teale, the elder, Phillis Kingsland, widow, Richard Partridge, Richard Hofford, Katherine Pearse, widow, Sush Pittock, John Rickman, Elizabeth Scarlett, widow, Geoy Saffery, Richard Smith, Jane Wildes, widow, John Saunders, Alexander Steward, George Loby, Margaret Potter, Robert Taylour, John Bridger, Jane Banks, Stepn Colt, James Neale and his wife Dorothy, Josa Lame, Robert Jeffers, Richard Gookin, Daniel Lubdale, Daniel Martin, Robert Clare, Thomas Lutchins, Thomas Warmesley, Henry May, Robert Harris, Stepn Ketherill, Edward Brickenden, Henry Pearse, William. Mann, William. Bowles, Richard Haydon, John Wood, Richard Stone, Arthur Archer, Samuel Thayres, - Lacy, widow, William. Canninge, Robert Freeman, William. Hofford, Richard White, Henry Simons, Richard Price, John Fuller, James Butterers, - Humphrey, widow, John Cokens, Thomas Stone, John Lee, Henry Parsons, John Langham, Vincent Benne, William. Snoade, William. Smith, William. Dixon, Abel Langbon, Charles Whiteing, Joshua Baldock, Benj. Hilke, John Younge, John White, William. Brothersea, Peter Phillips, Mary Norrington, William. Dissily, Geoy Snossell, - Bing, widow, Thomas Simons. Richard Cleydon, - Troward, widow, Thomas Wilson, John Allen, Moran Lodge, Peter Bridger, John Perie, and Henry Peirce, tenants or under tenants of the said John Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

Subject of depositions: Place called Upper Deale, and the town or village called Lower Deale, and the place or places called Deal Beach, the Sea Valley or Sea Beach, and the castles called Deale Castle and Sandown Castle. Metes and bounds. Touching the names and situation of the principal streets in said town, bulwarks, and forts built on land called "The Main or the Fee Simple Lands." The ownershiop of said lands and forts. Whether the site of said town and lands were originally overflowed by the sea, and have been gained from the sea. Survey.

County/place: Kent.

Date of commission: 12 February 1694.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 5 April 1694 at Lower Deale, 21 April 1694 at Barfreeston, at Romansgate and Sandwich.

Deponent(s): Robert Batty (3); John Cason (2); Jane Barrow (3); Thomas Barrow (3); Richard Behn (2); Thomas Dunkin (2); William Wilson (3); Henry Church (2); Katherine Bedee (2); William Nash (2); Anne Thorogood (2); Abraham Stock (2); Thomas Adcock (3); William Behn (3); Elizabeth Barret (2); William Harnett (2); Mary Carter (2); Thomas Clement (2); Sarah Atkins (2); Joan Pye (2); Anne Cotterell (2); Robert Baxter; James Farrer; Anne Lindsey (2); Mathew Ray (2); Sarah Baines (2); Abigail Hewet (2); Susan Martin (2); Nicholas Grigsby (2); Sarah Symonds (2); Mary Webb (2); Edmund Jones (2); Alexander Long (2); Nicholas Allabee (2); John Fowler (2); Terret Lister (2); Richard Parker (2); Roger Noble (2); Henry Martin (2); Nicholas Curling (2); Clement Leigh (2); Phineas Bunce (2); Isaac Atkins (2); Thomas Paramour (2); Richard Swayne (2); Caleb Burton (3); John Smith (2); Robert Flatman.