Money expended in prosecuting Baxter’s discharge from prison

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 123 DWL/RB/1/166
  • Former Reference
      GB 123 Treatises iv.127
  • Dates of Creation
      September 1686
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
      ff 411-412 (f 411r and f 412v are blank), 370 x 305 mm.

Scope and Content

This is the bill of David Williams for costs accumulated in in the prosecuting Baxter's discharge from the King's Bench in 1686. Sheet includes Baxter's marginal notes refuting the validity of these exorbitant costs.

Other Finding Aids

Argent / Black iv.127; Thomas p.21

Bibliography

  • Printed in Powicke, ii, pp. 286-287. This is the bill of David Williams, mentioned in Baxter’s letter to Lord Powis, 21 Dec. 1686: Letters, iii, f 280 [Corr 1170].
  • For Sir William Herbert, 3rd Baron, 1st earl, 1st marquess, and titular duke of Powis (c 1626-1696), a Roman Catholic and Jacobite, see McElligott, Corr 1152, 1161, 1162, 1163, 1164, 1165, 1166, 1167, 1170, 1171, 1172, 1182 and ODNB.
  • For David Williams see Corr 1160-73.

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