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Short title: Every v Dormer. Plaintiffs: Elizabeth Every, executrix and late the...

Catalogue reference: STAC 8/136/3

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This record is about the Short title: Every v Dormer. Plaintiffs: Elizabeth Every, executrix and late the... dating from 1619 June in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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STAC 8/136/3
Date
1619 June
Description

Short title: Every v Dormer.

Plaintiffs: Elizabeth Every, executrix and late the wife of John Every gent.

Defendants: John Dormer gent, John Hampton clerk, Henry Greene, Margaret Greene his wife, John Horne, Ann Feakly, and others.

Subject: Obtaining by perjury a licence for the said John Dormer to marry Elizabeth Every daughter of plaintiff Elizabeth Every, kidnapping the said daughter from the said Margaret Greene's house, and marriage against her will at St Peter's, Oxford.

Oxfordshire.

Barnes category: maintenance; perjury.

SFP.

Another action was also brought before the Ecclesiastical court

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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
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STAC 8

Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I

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