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Short Title: Queen's Almoner v Smith. [Cause code: SCEL-01800]. Documents: interrogatories,...
Catalogue reference: STAC 5/A18/35
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This record is about the Short Title: Queen's Almoner v Smith. [Cause code: SCEL-01800]. Documents: interrogatories,... dating from 1572 Nov 17-1573 Nov 16 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1572 Nov 17-1573 Nov 16
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Short Title: Queen's Almoner v Smith.
[Cause code: SCEL-01800].
Documents: interrogatories, depositions.
Plaintiffs: Queen's Almoner (Edmund Freke, Bishop of Rochester).
Defendants: Thomas Smith of Campden, Gloucestershire (father of the deceased), Thomas Lydyate.
County: [not yet known].
Subject: suicide's goods; estate of Thomas Smith of Campden, Gloucestershire, the father of of Henry Smith of the Inner Temple, who hanged himself on 10 May 1569 in the parish of St Clement without Temple Bar. [This Henry Smith, having been a firm Protestant known as Prattling Smith, went to Louvain and became a firm Catholic: his manner of death, naked except for a loin cloth, with his arms spread wide, hanging very low indeed from his bedpost [in the position of a crucifixion? auto-erotic asphyxiation?], was the talk of London and is described in Charles Perkin Gwilt, Notices Relating to Thomas Smith of Campden and to Henry Smith ., London 1836, and more briefly in Foxe's Book of Martyrs].
Regnal year: 15 Eliz I.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I
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