Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1759_05

Bayly v Poole

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Zachary Bayly v Rev. John Poole, Theodore Stone, and Francis Birbeck

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [392] p.419–420 (26 April 1759 – 11 July 1760)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.17 (1 Jan. 1758 – 21 May 1759) p.497: PC 2/106/497

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.18 (2 May 1759 – 10 July 1760) p.334–335, 418–422, 442: PC 2/107/334–335, 418–422, 442

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 22 Aug. 1758

 

Participants

Bayly, Zachary, appellant (assignee of Charles Knights Cole)

 

Birbeck, Francis, merchant, respondent (executor of Richard Wilson)

 

Cole, Charles Knights, deceased (husband of Mary, assignor of Zachary Bayly)

 

Cole (née Hobby), Mary (widow of Charles Knights, daughter of Mary Hobby [1], sister of William Hobby)

 

Hobby (née Wilson), Mary (1) (sister of Richard Wilson, mother of William and Mary [2] [now Mary Cole])

 

Hobby, Mary (2) – see Cole, Mary

 

Hobby, William (son of Mary [1], brother of Mary [2] [now Mary Cole])

 

Kelly (née Wilson), Ann (sister of Richard Wilson)

 

Life, Thomas, of Broadstreet Buildings (attorney for John Poole, Theodore Stone, and Francis Birbeck)

 

Poole, Rev. John, respondent (executor of Richard Wilson)

 

Smith (née Wilson), Rachel (sister of Richard Wilson)

 

Stone, Theodore, esquire, respondent (executor of Richard Wilson)

 

Wilson, Ann – see Kelly, Ann

 

Wilson, Mary – see Hobby, Mary (1)

 

Wilson, Rachel – see Smith, Rachel

 

Wilson, Richard, deceased (brother of Mary [now Mary Hobby [1]], Rachel [now Rachel Smith], and Ann [now Ann Kelly])

 

Description

Not stated in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series.

Disposition

Decree reversed in part with instructions for further proceedings.

Notes

The appellant’s and respondent’s printed cases are summarized in Caribbeana: miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies, ed. Vere Langford Oliver (London: Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 1909–1919), 6:156 (view).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Zachary Bayly v Rev. John Poole, Theodore Stone, and Francis Birbeck)

Counsel

C. Pratt; Geo. Perrott

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.40r–41v (Printed/manuscript date on dorse 7 July 1760; includes manuscript notes.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Zachary Bayly v Rev. John Poole, Theodore Stone, and Francis Birbeck)

Counsel

[C.] Yorke; Tho. Sewell

 
Note

First page of printed case has an engraving of ?Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane.

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.42r–43v (Manuscript date on dorse 7 July 1760; includes manuscript notes.)

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Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew

 

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