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Short Title: Anderton v Heaton. [Cause code: SCEL-12160]. Documents: bill, answer/s,...
Catalogue reference: STAC 5/A1/20
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This record is about the Short Title: Anderton v Heaton. [Cause code: SCEL-12160]. Documents: bill, answer/s,... dating from 1594 Nov 17-1595 Nov 16 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1594 Nov 17-1595 Nov 16
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Short Title: Anderton v Heaton.
[Cause code: SCEL-12160].
Documents: bill, answer/s, commission.
Plaintiffs: James Anderton esq of Lostock.
Defendants: Roger Heaton, Ferdinand, John Yate, Robert Heaton, James Yate the elder, James Yate the younger, Richard Horrabyn, William Marshe.
County: Lancashire.
Subject: [not yet described].
Regnal year: 37 Eliz I.
Case report, taken from Star Chamber Reports, BL Harley MS 2143, ed K. J. Kesselring (List and Index Society, Special Series 57, 2018):
[935] Anderton, plaintiff; Yate et al. For perjury and the bill amended for matter of form and in point where no matter of substance is to be altered. Easter 37 Elizabeth fo. 410 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].
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- Litigation
- Crime
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