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Short title: Eddis v Parmiter. Plaintiffs: James Eddis, tanner, William Ryder, yeoman...

Catalogue reference: STAC 8/134/1

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This record is about the Short title: Eddis v Parmiter. Plaintiffs: James Eddis, tanner, William Ryder, yeoman... dating from 1610 April in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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STAC 8/134/1
Date
1610 April
Description

Short title: Eddis v Parmiter.

Plaintiffs: James Eddis, tanner, William Ryder, yeoman and Thomas Pearce, yeoman, all of Thornbury.

Defendants: Henry Parmiter, attorney in the Common Pleas, Thomas Grymstone yeoman and Henry Townsend, high constable of the hundred of Thornbury.

Subject: Procuring from Joan Pearce and Elizabeth Pearce, minors, granddaughters of William Pearce and Ellen Pearce a conveyance of their lands in Owlston, Tockington, Almondsbury, Redwick and Northwick, so as to risk leaving them chargeable to the parish of Thornbury; perjury as to a bond given to Maurice Baker, deceased; forgery of bonds concerning land in Oldbury; and extortion by the said Henry Townsend in office.

Gloucestershire.

Barnes category: lawyer's offence; forgery; fraud; extortion; maintenance; officer's misfeasance

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