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Short Title: Lloyd v Price. [Cause code: SCEL-15108]. Documents: replication. Plaintiffs:...

Catalogue reference: STAC 5/L37/24

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1600 Nov 17-1601 Nov 16

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Short Title: Lloyd v Price. [Cause code: SCEL-15108].

Documents: replication.

Plaintiffs: David Lloid of Abermaid, JP.

Defendants: Thomas Price and others.

County: Cardiganshire, Wales.

Subject: Misdemeanours of defendants in various local government offices, but mainly in the office of deputy lieutenancy - converting the ammunition and armour of the county to their own use; levying illegal taxes to replace the appropriated armour; corruption in the pressing and mustering of soldiers; erecting a new armour-house on the land of Richard Price; misdemeanours in the inspection of armour; raising commorthau for the benefit of kinsmen; corruption and malpractices in the Great Sessions, especially in cases of murder; forging the roll of escheats and amercements thereof, Price then being Custos Rotulorum; appointing Price's men as bailiffs of the hundreds, the easier to exact commorthau [the latter part of the bill is a vivid recital of the collecting of these commorthau].

Regnal year: 43 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 40.

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