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Folio: 15. Short title: Clerke v Gryffith. Plaintiffs: William Clerke. Defendants:...
Catalogue reference: STAC 2/10/8
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STAC 2/10/8
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1543-1544
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Description (What the record is about)
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Folio: 15.
Short title: Clerke v Gryffith.
Plaintiffs: William Clerke.
Defendants: Sir George Gryffith, Thomas Redynge, and others.
Subject: False imprisonment, wrongfully putting the plainitff in the stocks, and other acts of oppression, and seizure of timber at Alrewas, in contempt of a Chancery decree.
County: Staffordshire.
Document Type: bill.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Litigation
- Forestry
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STAC 2
Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Henry VIII
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