Short Title: Dawbney v Gore. [Cause code: SCEL06422]. Documents: bill, answer/s,...

Short Title: Dawbney v Gore. [Cause code: SCEL06422].

Documents: bill, answer/s, rejoinder.

Plaintiffs: Arthur Dawbney.

Defendants: Gerrard Gore, Thomas Gore and others.

County: London.

Subject: perjury; in a Chancery suit [C 3/224/27], involving debts incurred in trade with Barbary, North Africa; and in a trial in the King's Bench heard in the Guildhall before Sir Christopher Wray.

Regnal year: 26 Eliz. Case report, taken from Star Chamber Reports, BL Harley MS 2143, ed K. J. Kesselring (List and Index Society, Special Series 57, 2018): [608] Dawbney, plaintiff; Gore et al: for perjury in the defendant’s answer in Chancery to a bill preferred by the plaintiff likewise touching the very principal cause which was there heard and ordered which being referred by this court to the Lord Chief Justice of England and the Master of the Rolls whether the defendant should answer the bill or not they certified they ought not to answer the same yet they reported that so many of the defendants as are charged as witnesses in the same cause or with the procurement thereof shall answer the same bill. Trinity 26 Elizabeth 5 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].