Short Title: Bowyer v Blackwell. Plaintiff(s): Samuel Bowyer, gent, on behalf of...

Short Title: Bowyer v Blackwell.

Plaintiff(s): Samuel Bowyer, gent, on behalf of himself and others, the creditors of Samuel Blackwell esq.

Defendant(s): Anne Blackwell, widow, Humphrey Mackworth Praed esq, Jonathan Blackwell esq, James Blackwell, Anne Blackwell, spinster, Elizabeth Blackwell, Edward Lord Elliott, Jane Elizabeth Blackwell, Frances Mary Blackwell, James Lord Shirborne [James Naper Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne], William Napier esq, Sir Francis Bassett, bart, William Praed esq, "and others".

Depositions for: Plaintiffs.

Subject of Depositions: The value etc and disposition of the estate of the testator Samuel Blackwell esq; said estate including a "small estate held under a lease from the Bishop of Gloucester"; messuages etc situated in the parish of Coln St Aldwins [Coln St Aldwyns, Cirencester] (Gloucestershire) held of by lease from the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity in Gloucester [Gloucester Cathedral]; also goods etc in the testator's house in Welbeck Street, London, and at his mansion house in Gloucestershire, and testator's claim upon the estate of Samuel Peach, a bankrupt, etc.

County: [Somerset]; London; Gloucestershire.

Taken at: Court of Exchequer.

Date of Commission: 28 November 1789.

Document Type: Commission; interrogatories and depositions (24 Dec 1789), the examination of the defendant Humphrey Mackworth Praed (pursuant to a decree of the Court of Exchequer made 28 June 1788).

See also: E 134/30Geo3/Trin9.

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