Anonymous ID: 6c7417 Jan. 29, 2023, 5:04 p.m. No.18250727   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0764 >>0814 >>0836 >>0842 >>1008 >>1096 >>1101

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https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6580

 

This series contains surviving depositions relating to cases heard on the King's Remembrancer's side of the Exchequer, taken by commissioners appointed by the Court of Exchequer, with associated documents. Local commissioners were appointed only when the witness to be examined lived outside a ten mile radius of London. The series includes both equity and revenue cases.

 

Depositions, or statements of witnesses, were answers to a pre-agreed set of questions known as interrogatories. The taking of these proofs followed the initial proceedings of the case in which the plaintiff and defendant set out the matter in dispute by the bill and answer process.

 

Disputes covered a wide range of topics: title, tithe and testamentary disputes; manorial customs and disputes over common lands; mining and minerals; commercial ventures both on land and at sea, including fraudulent insurance claims; and a wide spectrum of revenue matters of direct interest to the Crown, including customs evasion and maladministration by Crown officials.

 

Cont'd at link.