Catalogue description Short title: Attorney General v Yorke. Plaintiffs: Sir Henry Hobart, Attorney General,...

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Details of STAC 8/19/10
Reference: STAC 8/19/10
Description:

Short title: Attorney General v Yorke.

Plaintiffs: Sir Henry Hobart, Attorney General, afterwards Sir Francis Bacon, Attorney General.

Defendants: Sir John Yorke kt, Dame Julian Yorke his wife, William Yorke, Thomas Yorke, John Yorke, Richard Yorke, John Yorke, Thomas Angleby, William Darnbrooke, Anthony Croftes, William Horner, Christopher Ellesher [Ellerker ?], Christopher Johnson, Humphrey Baynes, John Rayner, Thomas Fenton, Richard Beckwith, Anthony Serrvant, Thomas Eyre, Francis Grange, Christopher Sampson, Robert Sampson, Katherine Franck and Margaret Almond.

Subject: Producing a play in his house at Golthwaite [Gowthwaite Hall in Nidderdale, parish of Kirkby Malzeard] in derision of Protestantism.

Yorkshire.

Note: interrogatories and depositions.

Barnes category: subversion; offence against religion; defamation. New category: religious differences; theatre.

Date: 1612 December
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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