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Short Title: Stokes v Dixon. Plaintiff(s): Francis Stokes esq. Defendant(s): Isaac...
Catalogue reference: E 134/29Geo3/Mich24
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This record is about the Short Title: Stokes v Dixon. Plaintiff(s): Francis Stokes esq. Defendant(s): Isaac... dating from 1788 Nov 6-1788 Nov 28 in the series Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- E 134/29Geo3/Mich24
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1788 Nov 6-1788 Nov 28
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: Stokes v Dixon.
Plaintiff(s): Francis Stokes esq.
Defendant(s): Isaac Dixon and his wife Mary, Samuel Bowdler and his wife Hannah alias Anna, Thomas Bate and his wife Sarah, John Walter and his wife Anne, Elizabeth Elcock, and William Smith Stokes and his wife Nancy.
Depositions for: Plaintiff and Defendants.
Subject of Depositions: The manor or lordship of Kings Tottenhall alias Tottenhall Regis [Middlesex] and the manor and deanery of Wolverhampton (Staffordshire); customs of manors; the names and possessions of John Stokes senior and his wife Anne, formerly of the mill in the parish of Bushbury (Staffordshire), John Stokes junior and his wife Elizabeth (formerly Elizabeth Smith) and William Stokes of Rougton [Roughton] (Shropshire) (the plaintiff's nephew) are mentioned.
County: Shropshire; Staffordshire.
Taken at: Bridgnorth [Shropshire].
Date of Commission: 11 June 1788.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (14 Oct 1788); the forms of the oaths.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Topics
- Manors
- Litigation
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Record URL
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Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission
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