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Short title: Hewet v Nashe. Plaintiffs: Margaret Hewet late the wife of John Hewet....
Catalogue reference: STAC 8/168/16
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This record is about the Short title: Hewet v Nashe. Plaintiffs: Margaret Hewet late the wife of John Hewet.... dating from 1605 November in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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STAC 8/168/16
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1605 November
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Short title: Hewet v Nashe.
Plaintiffs: Margaret Hewet late the wife of John Hewet.
Defendants: John Nashe, husbandman, Elizabeth Nashe his wife, John Powell of Steeple Ashton, weaver, and others.
Subject: Assault on plaintiff Margaret Hewet and her children, seizure of tools, destruction of a cart, reaping and wasting wheat, etc, on her dower land in Tilshead.
Wiltshire.
Barnes category: assault; destruction of property; unlawful assembly.
SFP
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Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I
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Short title: Hewet v Nashe. Plaintiffs: Margaret Hewet late the wife of John Hewet....
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