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Short Title: Attorney General v Lacy. [Cause code: SCEL-16434]. Documents: information,...
Catalogue reference: STAC 5/A2/18
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This record is about the Short Title: Attorney General v Lacy. [Cause code: SCEL-16434]. Documents: information,... dating from 1601 Nov 17-1602 Nov 16 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Short Title: Attorney General v Lacy.
[Cause code: SCEL-16434].
Documents: information, answer/s.
Plaintiffs: Attorney General (Edward Coke).
Defendants: William Lacy, Anthony Mason and his wife, William Jobson and his wife, Nicholas Buck and his wife, William Bale and his wife and others.
County: Lincolnshire.
Subject: a series of enclosure riots over several days by riotous women in and around Market Deeping or Deeping St James in May 1602 to destroy ditches created by Captain Thomas Lovell, who had been awarded a third of Deeping Fen by the Commissioners of Sewers in exchange for drainage work; overthrowing and hindering the work of the Commissioners of Sewers.
Regnal year: 44 Eliz I.
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