Judge Jeffreys papers,

A group of thirty documents of, or relating to, George Jeffreys, 1st baron Jeffreys of Wem, Lord Chancellor. They include acquittances and releases, 1667/8-77, for the payment of money, partly by the hand, or for the use, of Sir Robert Clayton and Mr. [John] Morris; dockets, 16886-8, from the Treasury Chambers, of the creations of titles (e.g. marquis of Powis, 1686/7), grants of offices and licences, and leases of fines in the Court of King's Bench and of the profits of the Alienation Office, with the counter-signatures of John Belasyse, baron Belasyse, Sidney Godolphin, 1st earl of Godolphin, [Sir] John Ernle, Henry Jermyn, 1st baron Dover, and [Sir] Stephen Fox; an undated petition by Leonard Bryar, gent., to Lord Jeffreys to be one of the Masters Extraordinary for taking affidavits in Chancery, together with a recommendation by Rich[ard] Allibon; recommendations [1688] by Rich. Allibon for the offices of Masters in Chancery in Stratford, Herefordshire, and near Settle, Yorkshire; case, and opinion of [Sir] J[ohn] Holt, 1686, in an action before the Lord Chancellor; and a petition [1689] by Thomas Burdet and the rest of the farmers of the markets of the city of London to Lord Jeffreys for the reimbursement by the city of losses incurred as a result of the reduction of duty payable by tanners at Leadenhall market.

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Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 11061D

January 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);

For other legal papers relating to Sir Robert Clayton and John Morris, see NLW MSS 4989D, 8472E, 11016-11021E; NLW Plymouth papers 1581; NLW Tredegar (4) papers 58/118; and NLW Milborne papers 1910.

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