Short Title: Hexte v Rich. [Cause code: SCEL-06988]. Documents: bill, answer/s, commission,...

Short Title: Hexte v Rich. [Cause code: SCEL-06988].

Documents: bill, answer/s, commission, interrogatories, depositions [also includes an answer from STAC 5/H64/2, SC-EL13220].

Plaintiffs: Edward Hexte of Devon.

Defendants: William Ryche, William Brode and others.

County: Cornwall.

Subject: [tithes in the parishes of St Enoder, St Columb, and Crantock: see also depositions in Rich v Hext, 1590, E 134/32Eliz/East22, where they are claimed by Rich in the right of his wife].

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): [631] Hext, plaintiff; Rich, defendant: for forgery and other misdemeanors, witnesses examined before the mayor and burgesses of Bodmin touching the forgery in this court on the defendant’s behalf which the court much misliked and therefore granted process against the mayor to answer his misdemeanor. Trinity 26 Elizabeth fo. 20. [677] Hext, plaintiff; Andrews, mayor of Bodmin, Walker town clerk there, Sandy and Stubbs two burgesses of the same town, William Rich et al: that Walker knowing that Rich was of lewd behaviour and that the plaintiff made title to the [Sarbes? {tithes ?}] of the parish and that he meant to encumber the plaintiff’s title to the same and to that purpose in the presence of the said mayor took the depositions of 14 persons whom he knew not ready written tending altogether to the impeachment of the plaintiff’s title without any bill, plaint or action exhibited in the said town’s court which depositions by the procurement of the said Rich he caused to be exemplified under the town seal and very falsely and indirectly to be certified under the hands of the said mayor and the two other burgesses for which they were committed and fined 2 at £40 apiece and other two at £30 apiece. Trinity 28 Elizabeth fo. 254 [note: folio references are to the lost Star Chamber decree and order entry books].