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19. Thomas Birley v. Isabell Birley and Henry Cornoe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2008

Extract

Parchment Bill of Complaint   28 November 1616   REQ 2/422/19, m. 3  241

Parchment Commission   4 December 1616   REQ 2/422/19, m. 2  243

Parchment Demurrer and Answer   29 January 1617   REQ 2/422/19, m. 1  244

Court Order   26 November 1618   REQ 1/28, fo. 467  247

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2008

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References

603 The parchment is ripped.

604 The right edge of the parchment is faded.

605 Presumably Christopher Banaster of Barnard's Inn, adm. Gray's Inn 12 March 1596: see Gray's Inn Register, p. 90.

606 ‘28 November 1616. By warrant on paper’.

607 27 January–2 February.

608 Hugh Alington, clerk of the court.

609 ‘To be returned in the quindene of Hilary Term next [27 January–2 February]’.

610 I have not been able to identify these commissioners.

611 ‘The execution of this commission appears in the certain schedule attached to this commission’.

612 i.e. the fraudulent use of a writ of replevin, a legal process to recover goods unlawfully taken.

613 Edmund Breres of Lancs, adm. Gray's Inn 25 November 1602: see Gray's Inn Register, p. 105. See also Gray's Inn Pension Book, p. 246.

614 ‘The defendant has been sworn at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire on 15 January 1617 before George Hodgkinson and Thomas Waring’.

615 There were half a dozen Coles practising in London at this time, making a positive identification difficult.

616 ‘The answer of Isabelle Birley [&] Cornoe to the bill of Birley returned on 29 January 1617 by Henry Hodgkinson [on behalf of George Hodgkinson mentioned above?]’.

617 Master Robert Naunton presiding.

618 This has been inserted.

619 The page is torn and damaged.

620 ‘Without day’, a final dismissal allowing the defendants to depart without a day being named for any future appearance.