Short Title: Shinn v Lye. Plaintiff(s): Benjamin Shinn [or Shim] and his wife Anne,...

Short Title: Shinn v Lye.

Plaintiff(s): Benjamin Shinn [or Shim] and his wife Anne, John Price.

Defendant(s): Henry Lye, Richard Gabb.

Depositions for: Plaintiffs and Defendants.

Subject of Depositions: The value of four leasehold messuages in Barton Street, Gloucester, lately belonging to John Pewtris, yeoman, and his wife Jane, by virtue of a lease from the Corporation of Gloucester, lately in the occupation of Thomas Smith, John Haynes of St Mary de Lode, Gloucestershire, blacksmith, Phillip Reading, William Griffith and Elizabeth Heath; touching alleged undue influence used in obtaining a gift or conveyance of said premises from said Jane Pewtris to Elizabeth Heath; also touching actions of ejectment brought at the assizes held in Gloucester in the years 1769 and 1771 wherein John Goodlittle on the demise of Elizabeth Heath, spinster, and also on the demise of Richard Gabb was plaintiff, and Benjamin Shinn and his wife Elizabeth, and John Price were defendants etc.

County: Herefordshire; Gloucestershire.

Taken at: Ledbury, Herefordshire.

Date of Commission: 29 Nov 1773.

Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (24 Jan 1774); the forms of the oaths.