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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: Rolfe v Frowyke. Plaintiffs: James Rolfe, esq, commissary to the bishop...
Catalogue reference: STAC 8/246/1
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This record is about the Short title: Rolfe v Frowyke. Plaintiffs: James Rolfe, esq, commissary to the bishop... dating from 1608 Oct in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- STAC 8/246/1
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1608 Oct
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short title: Rolfe v Frowyke.
Plaintiffs: James Rolfe, esq, commissary to the bishop of Lincoln, and official to the archdeacon of Huntingdon.
Defendants: Henry Frowyke, gent, JP, steward of St Albans, William Cade, gent of King's Langley, and John Ellys, attorney in the court of St Albans.
Subject: Attempt to deter plaintiff James Rolfe from giving evidence in libel action by attacking him for taking unjust fees, speaking against the established order of the church, examining a cause ot tithe in the said court, extortion, and other misconduct in office.
Hertfordshire.
Note: see also STAC 8/90/20.
Another action was also brought before other courts.
Barnes category: officer's misfeasance; subversion; contempt; extortion; conspiracy; lawyer's offence.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I
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