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Short Title: Wigmore v Coningsby. [Cause code: SCEL-07232]. Documents: bill, answer/s,...

Catalogue reference: STAC 5/W17/15

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This record is about the Short Title: Wigmore v Coningsby. [Cause code: SCEL-07232]. Documents: bill, answer/s,... dating from 1584 Nov 17-1585 Nov 16 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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STAC 5/W17/15
Date
1584 Nov 17-1585 Nov 16
Description

Short Title: Wigmore v Coningsby. [Cause code: SCEL-07232].

Documents: bill, answer/s, demurrer.

Plaintiffs: Thomas Wygmor.

Defendants: Thomas Conningsbye esq, William Burfild and others.

County: Herefordshire [Marches of Wales].

Subject: riot and contempt at the Hereford Assizes.

Regnal year: 27 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): [683] Wigmore, plaintiff; Conysby, armiger, contempt against the plaintiff made by the justice of assize for abuse of the justice of assize in using to have contemptuous speeches, for a riot and contempt to the mayor of Hereford, fined £700, Fleet, and all his men £20 apiece. Trinity 31 Elizabeth fo. 88 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].

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