Short title: Androws v Priaulx. Plaintiffs: William Androws of Southampton. Defendants: Peter Priaulx, late mayor …

Description: Short title: Androws v Priaulx. Plaintiffs: William Androws of Southampton. Defendants: Peter Priaulx, late mayor of Southampton, John Smyth, town-clerk, George Braden and Richard Cornelius, serjeants-at-mace, Abraham Williams, Thomas Williams his father, William Eling, and others. Subject: Conspiracy to obtain judgment in the mayor's court on a bond given to the said Abraham Williams by Thomas Plowman, deceased, for whose administrators plaintiff William Androws had become surety, and besetting the house of William Combes in Southampton, where the plaintiff was. Hampshire. Barnes category: officer's misfeasance; conspiracy; destruction of property; maintenance; vexatious litigation; extortion.

Date: 01/10/1623 - 31/10/1623

Last import: September 11, 2017