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Comm.Ct.V.8	Acta
Comm.Ct.V.9	Acta
Comm.Ct.V.10	Acta
Comm.Ct.V.11	Acta
Comm.Ct.V.12	Acta
Comm.Ct.V.13	Acta
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Title	Acta
Reference	Comm.Ct.V.7
Covering Dates	1585–1614 (1585-1602, 1604-14)
Extent and Medium	1 volume (pp.1-582)

Content and context

Comprises acts in the fair court; prosecutions of flesh dressing on Fridays; beer sold above the price; hops, tobacco, rape seed and mustard seed out of condition; unfresh fish; dried fish mixed; illegal Scottish fish; regrating, forestalling (especially of oysters); defective weights; unmarked honey; also disputes, personal injuries and defamation. Notable entries include:

p.102: breach of contract: Lionel Ducket v. Matthew Law of London, for failure to deliver three parts of Lira;

pp.305-306: prosecution of Henry Slegge for theft of a gilded book in quarto from a bookbinder's stall;

p.328: Thomas Calvert, MA (Trinity), v. Richard Brinckworth, stationer of London, for failure to deliver two Bibles;

p.499: memorandum of attempt by men authorised by the Privy Council to search for defective cloth, 7 Sept. 1611.

The last three years are incomplete rough notes by Tabor only.

Cover: bifolium of a service book (as in UA Comm.Ct.V.6).

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