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Short Title: Dawes v Black. [Cause code: SCEL-16567]. Documents: interrogatories,...
Catalogue reference: STAC 5/D14/19
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This record is about the Short Title: Dawes v Black. [Cause code: SCEL-16567]. Documents: interrogatories,... dating from 1602 Nov 17-1603 Mar 24 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Short Title: Dawes v Black. [Cause code: SCEL-16567].
Documents: interrogatories, depositions.
Plaintiffs: Anne Dawes, Anne Friswell.
Defendants: John Robinson.
County: Kent.
Subject: Forgery of a lease; suit in the ecclesiastical court of Rochester concerning claim to nuncupative will; forgery of a will, where Richard Black put 'a pen between 2-3 of her [Joan Dawes, wife of William Dawes] dead fingers and made her mark'. Withheld bequeathed goods from parish poor.
Regnal year: 45 Eliz I. Note: see L.A. Knafla (ed.), Kent at Law 1602, Volume III: Star Chamber (List and Index Society, 2012), pp 104-105.
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