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Short title: Stanley v Stanley. Plaintiffs: Richard Stanley, gent, son and heir of...

Catalogue reference: STAC 8/267/12

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This record is about the Short title: Stanley v Stanley. Plaintiffs: Richard Stanley, gent, son and heir of... dating from 1606 May in the series Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, James I. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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STAC 8/267/12
Date
1606 May
Description

Short title: Stanley v Stanley.

Plaintiffs: Richard Stanley, gent, son and heir of Henry Stanley.

Defendants: Anne Stanley wife of Henry Stanley, brother of plaintiff Richard Stanley, Richard Waldram, John Kenthe his brother-in-law, Richard Mercer of Widmerpool, Thomas Nixson, John Dawson, and Thomas Stanley, yeoman.

Subject: Perjury in Chancery at Nottingham assizes concerning an entail of messuages, cottages and lands of said Henry Stanley the elder in Sutton Bonington, West Leake, and Hathern fraudulently drawn by Thomas Waldram, Anne Stanley and Richard Waldram, and forging of a will in the name of the said Henry Stanley the farther.

Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire.

Another action was also brought before the Chancery.

Barnes category: forgery; fraud; perjury; conspiracy.

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The National Archives, Kew
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