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Transfered to STAC 8/312/16
Catalogue reference: STAC 8/193/34
Transfered to STAC 8/312/16
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Short title: Poultney v Westwraye. Plaintiffs: Ralph Poultney, citizen and clothworker...
Catalogue reference: STAC 8/243/4
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This record is about the Short title: Poultney v Westwraye. Plaintiffs: Ralph Poultney, citizen and clothworker... dating from 1622 May in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- STAC 8/243/4
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1622 May
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Poultney v Westwraye.
Plaintiffs: Ralph Poultney, citizen and clothworker of St Mildred's, London.
Defendants: Mercy Westwraye [a man], John Noble, Alexander Parker, Fortune Parker his wife, Alexander Webbe, and John Westwray.
Subject: Assault and false imprisonment, false affidavit of the peace in Chancery, obtaining administration of the estate of Mongey Peirson by perjury, and forgery of a will in the name of Alice Westwraye wife of the first-named defendant Mercy Westwraye, formerly the wife of the said Mongey Peirson, disposing of a lease of land in Scalding Alley, adjoining Grocers' Hall.
London.
Another action was also brought before the Ecclesiastical court.
Barnes category: assault; forgery; perjury; unlawful assembly; conspiracy; destruction of property.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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STAC 8
Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I
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Short title: Poultney v Westwraye. Plaintiffs: Ralph Poultney, citizen and clothworker...
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