Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission

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Reference code(s): E134

Title: Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Depositions taken by Commission

Date(s): c1558 - 1841

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 2632 bundles and files

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Scope and content: 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. At subseries level a file of note is: E 134/8Geo3/East9, Interrogatories, Depositions taken at Bristol 18 Apr 8 Geo 3, 1768. John Lean v. Edward Nicholas, William Tombs, Thos. Longden, John Fowler, John Vaughan the Younger, Thos. Eastern the Younger. Depositions for Plaintiff and Defendants. Concerning the ship Juno belonging to Defendants and sent by them from Bristol to the Coast of Africa to convey Negro Slaves purchased there to Jamaica in the West Indies.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Interest: Caribbean

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Slavery

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Jamaica