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Short Title: Bold v Griffith. [Cause code: SCEL-10297]. Documents: bill, answer/s,...

Catalogue reference: STAC 5/B87/27

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This record is about the Short Title: Bold v Griffith. [Cause code: SCEL-10297]. Documents: bill, answer/s,... dating from 1591 Nov 17-1592 Nov 16 in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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1591 Nov 17-1592 Nov 16

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Short Title: Bold v Griffith. [Cause code: SCEL-10297].

Documents: bill, answer/s, commission, interrogatories, depositions.

Plaintiffs: Rees Bould alias Price Bolde of Treddol, sheriff of Anglesey.

Defendants: Owen Griffith, Richard Lewis, William Griffith deputy sheriff, Owen Wood, Richard Morgan, John Bodychen, John Meyrick, Richard Jenkins and others.

County: Anglesey, Wales.

Subject: resistance by the deputy sheriff to the bailiffs of Llivon [Llifon] in executing a writ, and other affrays arising from the disputed possession of land at Holyhead; corruption of a jury at the Anglesey Assizes; forcible rescue from the sheriff and the bailiffs of the commote of Llifon.

Regnal year: 34 Eliz I. Note: see A Catalogue of Star Chamber Proceedings relating to Wales, compiled by Ifan ab Owen Edward (Board of Celtic Studies, 1929), p 18. Case report, taken from Star Chamber Reports, BL Harley MS 2143, ed K. J. Kesselring (List and Index Society, Special Series 57, 2018): [944] Bold, plaintiff; Wood, Lewes, Griffith et al,

Defendants: for not returning recognizances taken before some of the defendants being justices of peace for practice and unlawful conspiracy to indict the plaintiff as accessory to a supposed felony and for a contempt and misdemeanor in beating a commissioner of rebellion when he arrested the defendant by force thereof being awarded out of this court for which conspiracy and practise and beating of the commission of rebellion Griffith fined 100 marks for the conspiracy and £40 for beating the commission but the other defendant dismissed with £10 cost, for that the matters were not deemed worthy to trouble the court nor proved as seemeth. Michaelmas 38 Elizabeth fo. 57 [note: folio references are to the now lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].

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Acts of the Privy Council 1592. British Library Additional MS 37045 ff 34a and 35 - serjeant's certificates

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