Appeals to the Privy Council

Report No. 13_1696_00

Appeal of Bowtell

Virginia 

Case Name Short

Bowtell, appeal of

Not a ‘true’ appeal.
Case Name Long

William Bowtell and Thomas Wenborne, appeal of

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.2 [632] p.299 – 18 June 1696 – entry 1

 
CSP Citation 

X no. 46

 
PC Register Citation 

William III v.4 (2 December 1694 – 23 April 1697) p.451: PC 2/76/451

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Colonial Courts

No colonial court decision

Participants

Bowtell, William

Wenborne, Thomas

Description

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

Disposition

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

Notes

The petition regards a presumed debt of John Lear, a member of the Virginia Council, who by a rule of the General Court was immune from suit. The petition is of interest, though not an actual appeal from a court judgment. According to Kammen, “Virginia at the Close of the Seventeenth Century,” p.143–144, the “very first piece of business referred to the Board [of Trade] in 1696, before it had held its first meeting, concerned Virginia. . . . The lords commissioners were ordered to report on the case of William Bowtell and Thomas Wenborne, merchants, who raised the issue of privileges enjoyed by councilors in Virginia. . . . In consequence, at their seventh meeting, on July 13, 1696, the Board heard the petition of the two aggrieved parties.”


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