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Short Title: Queen's Almoner v Lewis. [Cause code: SCEL-01061]. Documents: bill only....
Catalogue reference: STAC 5/A1/13
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This record is about the Short Title: Queen's Almoner v Lewis. [Cause code: SCEL-01061]. Documents: bill only.... dating from 1566 Nov 17-1567 Nov 16 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1566 Nov 17-1567 Nov 16
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Short Title: Queen's Almoner v Lewis.
[Cause code: SCEL-01061].
Documents: bill only.
Plaintiffs: Queen's Almoner (Edmund Guest, Bishop of Rochester).
Defendants: Thomas Lewis.
County: Carmarthenshire [Wales].
Subject: suicide's goods; the refusal of the executors to pay a legacy of £4 left by Ellen verch David, daughter of Rice ap Gwalter Vaughan, of the parish of Abergwyllyn (Abergwili).
Regnal year: 9 Eliz I.
Note: see, A Catalogue of Star Chamber Proceedings relating to Wales, compiled by Ifan ab Owen Edward (Board of Celtic Studies, 1929), p 42.
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- Litigation
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