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The National Archives: C 24/1156 (Town depositions). These notes refer to bundle 69 within that box.
Brief Notes:
Interr on part of James Peters deft in Booth et ux v Peters
15 November 1692 James Oades, ?? Street, London, Scrivener aged 40 years & upwards
- no details extracted
15
November 1692 Thomas Prissick of Grace Church Street in London,
Upholder aged 28 years or thereabouts being pduced as a witness in the
part of the deft James Peters
- he doth know the complts & the deft, the complts for about 3 years now last past and the deft for about 2 1/2 yeares
- he did know Thos Attwell late of London Carpenter father of the complt Elizabeth, who died about 25th May 1690
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The day the Thomas Attwell died, the dept was sent to inform Peters,
and to enquire what writings he had of the said Thomas Attwell in his
hands.
- Peters came to the complt Elizabeth that afternoon
and told her that he had a writing in his hands whereby the said Thomas
Attwell was settling his effects but that the same was not signed or
sealed
- afterwards the said deft Peters did deliver or cause to
be delivered to the comply Elizabeth a bill of charges for drawing
& .... the said writings which ... to seaven pounds or nere &
she did tell the deft that she did not understand those things but she
would show the sd bill to a friend .. she did show the same to a Mr
Newland a scrivener
- Mr Newland & the complt Elizabeth met
Peters at the Blewcoate Coffee House near the Exchange London at which
this dept was present and Mr Newland declared that he thought five
pounds and a crown would be sufficient for the work and advised the
said complt Elizabeth to pay so much to the deft Mr Peters which Peters
agreed to accept
- Mr Newland drew up a receipt, and advised the
complt Elizabeth that she should not pay unless the deft Peters would
signe the receipt
- afterwards when the complts went to the
defts house & paid the money and asked him to sign the receipt he
fell into a passion and would not signe the receipt
- the
complt Mr Booth being a peaceable man & not willing to cause any
further dispute asked Peters to write a receipt himself & signe it,
which he did
- at that time Peters produced & showed at a
distance to the complt Elizabeth a bond and asked her whether she knew
her fathers hand, claiming this was a bond for £50 from ther decd
Thomas Attwell
- this dept had heard the complt Elizabeth say that her father had paid Mr Peters some time before his death
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this dept did about the beginning of Aprill 1690 marry with the
grandaughter of the sd Thomas Attwell who was the complts daughter, and
Thomas Attwell told him that if he married his sd grandaughter he
would give him some money as a porcon with her and accordingly paid him
the sim of £100 in his life tyme and some time after the
marriage. And this dept hath since the death of the sd Mr Attwell reced
some money from the complts but claims it was not Thomas Attwell's
money but that the Complts "tooke the same up of a gentleman"
14 November 1692 George Newland, West Smithfield in the Parish of St Sepulcher London, Scrivener aged 44 years or thereabouts
- no details extracted
15 November 1692 Susanna Grimes of ?Sith? Lane near St Anthonie's Church, London, widdow aged 50 years or thereabouts
- has known Robert Booth for 20 years, and Elizabeth his wife ever since she was a little girl
- has known James Peters for 7 years
- did know Thomas Attwell late of London Carpenter, father of the complt Elizabeth for about 20 years before his decease
-
deposition suggests that £50 was owing to James Peters at the time of
Thomas Attwell's death, apparently borrowed to provide for a marriage
portion of £100 for his grandaughter Mary Prissick when she married the
other dept Thomas Prissick