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3. Dame Margery Acton v. Sir Robert Acton84
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2008
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Paper Copy of Bill of Complaint 27 April 1553 REQ 2/14/53, m. 1 29
Court Order 22 June 1553 REQ 1/9, fo. 157 30
Paper Copy of Order 22 June 1553 REQ 2/14/53, m. 2 32
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See also BL Lansdowne MS 125, fo. 157; Caesar, The Ancient State, p. 164.
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85 The top corner of the document is ripped.
86 JP for Surrey, ktd. 1542; succeeded his father-in-law as king's saddler, and exercised the office of deputy; see VCH Surrey, vol. 2, p. 123; Shaw, Knights, vol. 2, p. 53; D.F. Corcos, ‘Acton, Sir Robert’, in History of Parliament 1509–1558; Hayward, M., Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII (Leeds, 2007), pp. 339–340Google Scholar.
87 £700.
88 500 marks, or £333 6s 8d.
89 i.e. ‘much’.
90 The original mistakenly reads ‘to be’.
91 i.e. ‘answer’.
92 ‘At Westminster 27 April 1553. Writ under privy seal directed against Robert Acton, knight, to appear in person before the Council of the Lord King in the Court of Requests at Westminster on the morrow of the Holy Trinity next [29 May] to answer to what shall on the part of Dame Margery Acton his wife be then and there objected against him, under pain of £100’.
93 William May, Master of Requests 1550–c.1553 (see Appendix 2).
94 John Cocks, Master of Requests 1550–1553 (see Appendix 2).
95 John Lucas, Master of Requests 1551–1553 (see Appendix 2).
96 i.e. ‘font stone’.
97 End of membrane: no more to follow.
98 ‘Trinity Term [2–21 June] 1553. Let it be recorded in the register’.