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Transferred to C 94/4 no 6
Catalogue reference: C 47/19/6/6
Transferred to C 94/4 no 6
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Short title: Devill v Matthews. Plaintiffs: John Devill gent, of Southwark, Surrey....
Catalogue reference: C 6/402/57
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This record is about the Short title: Devill v Matthews. Plaintiffs: John Devill gent, of Southwark, Surrey.... dating from 1693-1694 in the series Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Collins. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1693-1694
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Short title: Devill v Matthews.
Plaintiffs: John Devill gent, of Southwark, Surrey.
Defendants: Philippa Mathewes widow, Sir John Holman, Peter Hughes, Margaret Hughes his wife, Joseph Shewen, Henry Tibutt (alias Henry Tippett) Thomas Mathewes, Humphrey Smart, Michael Jones, Thomas Slaughter, Edward Evans, Thomasine Barnett, John Peck, Charles Arthur, James Andrews, Robert Cooke, William Brighting, [unknown] Brighting his wife, John Fellowes, Robert Coveney, James Nash, John Eagles, [unknown] Eagles his wife, [unknown] Harbert and Samuel Becks.
Subject: The plaintiff's right of inheritance to a mansion house, formerly part of a dissolved monastery and other messuages and lands, once the property of his great grandfather: mentions Richard Devill, Thomas Devill and John Devill: property in Rotherhithe, Surrey; Bermondsey Place, Bermondsey, Surrey and St Saviour, Southwark, Surrey.
Document type: bill, three answers.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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C 6
Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings before 1714, Collins
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