Short title: Ewer v Cope. Plaintiffs: Edward Ewer of Bucknell gent. Defendants: Sir...

Short title: Ewer v Cope.

Plaintiffs: Edward Ewer of Bucknell gent.

Defendants: Sir William Cope bart of Hardwick, late sheriff, Richard Gostelow of Mallington, deputy-sheriff, Hugh Candish gent, under-sheriff, William Richardes (Rickettes), Thomas Welles, John Walker, Richard Robertes, and others.

Subject: Arrest of plaintiff Edward Ewer and of Edolph Dingley, coroner, at Middleton Stone on forged warrants, false imprisonment at Banbury and Oxford, etc, to hinder process on an extent for the price of the manor of Bletchington; arrest of a bailiff appointed on the said extent, forgery of bills of sale of goods taken thereon, packing a jury to inquire of riot in taking the said extent, poundbreach at Bicester, contempt of a habeas corpus, etc.

Oxfordshire.

Barnes category: officer's misfeasance; forgery; contempt; perjury; conspiracy; unlawful assembly; vexatious litigation.

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