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Mid-C17th Chancery cases

This page provides a listing of selected Court of Chancery cases relevant to an understanding of Oxenden family commercial ventures and family litigation over domestic issues involving the Court of Chancery

Tobell Aylmer litigation

C5/15/3
C6/130/5 f. 1
C6/130/5 f. 2
C10/5/21 f. 1
C10/5/21 f. 2
C10/12/128 f. 1

Loyal Merchant litigation

C10/488/141

Oxenden vs Dallison litigation following Elizabeth Dallison's death

C 9/49/48 Dalison v. Oxenden 1667
C 9/49/48 f. 1 Complaint by Maximilian Dalyson of West Peckham to Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor
C 9/49/48 f. 2 The several answers of Sir Henry Oxenden kn:t one of the def:ts to the Bill of Compl:t of Maximillian Dalyson Esq: Comp:lt

SVJS & KF litigation

Thirty separately indexed Chancery documents have been identified in the National Archives which are related to Sir George Oxenden’s ventures in 1655-1659. A significant number are indexed under titles which are not obviously linked to Sir George Oxenden. The documents fall into four series, of which C9 and C10 are the dominant ones, with thirteen records in the C9 category and fifteen records in the C10 category. There is one record in C5 and one record in C22.

C5:

C5/58/51

C9:
C9/28/10
C9/29/37
C9/30/96
C9/47/10
C9/59/10
C9/232/127
C9/243/71
C9/243/130
C9/229/52
C9/236/131
C9/243/13X

C9/405/357

C9/409/92

C10:
C10/60/30 f. 1
C10/60/30 f. 2
C10/60/30 f. 3
C10/60/30 f. 4
C10/65/99
C10/82/2
C10/87/49
C10/90/73
C10/106/142
C10/109/102
C10/158/94
C10/172/61
C10/173/72
C10/469/40
C10/470/103
C10/471/114
C10/477/19
C10/492/28

C22:
C22/1036/34

Chancery case listing by archival category

Fuller details of the documents are listed below, with links to images, transcriptions, and/or summaries of the documents

C 3/429/50 Short title: Stone v Dalison. 1640-1642

C 9/40/57 Oxenden v. Dallison and Stanley 1668
File(C 9_40_58 Oxenden v. Dallison, 1668)
C 9/49/48 Dalison v. Oxenden, 1667
C 9/240/194 Stanley v. Walsall 1650
C 9/242/63 Dallison v. Skepper 1658
C 9/243/66 Dallison v. Skipper and Smith 1666

C 10/14/38 William Cane v Barnabas Walsall and Thomas Stanley: Rochester, Kent 1651
C 10/19/66 Robert Levett v Jacob Searle, Nicholas Gould, Robert Abdy, William Williams, Andrew Rickards, Nathan Wright and others: money matters, Middlesex. Bill and answer 1653
C 10/57/109 Gore, Woodward and Meggs v. East India company, Governor & c. and others 1652
C 10/74/1 Roger Andrewes, John Connis, William Pennoyer, Francis Dashwood and Edward Crispe v Frederick Skinner: money matters, Middx. 1664

C 22/58/39 Dalyson v. Oxinden. Between 1558 and 1714
C 22/968/8 Cane v. Stanley Between 1558 and 1714

C 142/483/82 Dallyson, Maximilian, knight: Kent 8 Charles I
C 142/623/52 Dallyson, William: Kent 20 Charles I.

Chancery case listing by document date

Fuller details of the documents are listed below, with links to images, transcriptions, and/or summaries of the documents.

Legal issues by case

- Concealment of assets as a failed commercial man (C 10/14/38, C 22/968/8)
- Contesting a will as unnatural (C 9/243/66)
- Power and title over an estate (C 9/49/48, C 9/40/57)
- Unauthorised sale of goods and attempt to recover goods (C 10/19/66)