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Short Title: Avery v Gotham. [Cause code: SCEL-01291]. Documents: bill, three answers,...
Catalogue reference: STAC 5/A32/34
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This record is about the Short Title: Avery v Gotham. [Cause code: SCEL-01291]. Documents: bill, three answers,... dating from 1568 Nov 17-1569 Nov 16 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1568 Nov 17-1569 Nov 16
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Short Title: Avery v Gotham.
[Cause code: SCEL-01291].
Documents: bill, three answers, rejoinder, commission, interrogatories, very long depositions.
Plaintiffs: Agnes Averye widow of Richard Averie (who died intestate) and Robert Averye their son.
Defendants: Roger Gottam, Christopher Galimor, Dennys Bennett, George Raynsbye, Thomas Rosse, Edward Bynford.
County: Devon.
Subject: bonds and lands called the Marsh; perjury [in the probate court?] [also litigated in Chancery against Thomas Southcote and others].
Regnal year: 11 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):
[410] Averie, plaintiff; Gotham et al: perjury committed in the spiritual court, search of the precedents ordered to be made whether this court had punished any perjury committed in any spiritual court before the statute of perjury made in year five of the Queen, to the end this cause might be punished. Trinity 13 Elizabeth fo. 333 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].
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Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I
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