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Short Title: Lewis v Edmunds. Plaintiff(s): Mary Lewis, the wife of John Lewis, by...
Catalogue reference: E 134/29Geo3/Hil8
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This record is about the Short Title: Lewis v Edmunds. Plaintiff(s): Mary Lewis, the wife of John Lewis, by... dating from 1789 Jan 23-1789 Feb 12 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/Hil8
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1789 Jan 23-1789 Feb 12
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Description (What the record is about)
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Short Title: Lewis v Edmunds.
Plaintiff(s): Mary Lewis, the wife of John Lewis, by Thomas Lewis her next friend, James Davis, Richard Lewis.
Defendant(s): Richard Edmunds, Isaac Jones, John Lewis, John Eaton, Charles Maddox, Nathaniel Watts.
Depositions for: Plaintiffs.
Subject of Depositions: The attestation of deeds executed by James Price of Bedwas (Monmouthshire), gent, Evan Rosser, Mary Lewellin (who afterwards became Mary Lewis, the plaintiff) and John Lewis (one of the defendants), etc.
County: Glamorganshire; Monmouthshire.
Taken at: Cardiff [Glamorganshire].
Date of Commission: 28 November 1788.
Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (9 Jan 1789); the forms of the oaths.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Litigation
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