| Appeals to the Privy Council |
| Report No. 05_1711_00 |
|
Massachusetts |
| Case Name Short |
Lillie v Bromfield Lillie v Adams |
| Case Name Long |
Samuel Lillie v Edward Bromfield and Francis Burroughs Samuel Lillie v Elias Adams |
Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series |
| APC Citation | v.2 [1150] p.655 – 30 July 1711 – entry 1 |
| PC Register Citation | Anne v.5 (2 June 1710 – 28 July 1712) p.278: PC 2/83/278 |
| APC Citation | v.2 [1150] p.655 – 29 March 1715 – entry 2 |
| PC Register Citation | George I v.1(1 August 1714 – 2 March 1717) p.201–202: PC 2/85/201–202 |
Colonial Courts |
|
Inferior Court of Massachusetts Bay – 7 October 1707 – re Bromfield and Burroughs Inferior Court of Massachusetts Bay – 4 November 1707 – re Adams |
Participants |
|
Adams, Elias Bromfield, Edward Burroughs, Francis Lillie, Samuel, merchant, of Boston |
Description |
Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series |
Disposition |
According to the APC, Lillie is allowed to appeal from the Inferior Court judgments and may also prosecute his appeals from the Admiralty Court of Massachusetts in the High Court of Admiralty in England. |
|
|
DOCUMENTATION |
Printed Cases |
Not found |
Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew |
| TNA Document | Report of the Attorney General – 6 Jan. 1714/5 – PC 1/58/1 | view_Document |
| Catalogued as | Catalogued by TNA with the petition of S. Lillie as follows: Petition of Samuel Lillie, merchant of Boston, concerning alleged unjust procedures in the Massachusetts courts of jurisdiction, with report of Attorney General |
| Notes about Document |
Stitched together are the petition, true copies of Lillie’s original request, order of reference to the Attorney General, and the Attorney General’s answer. Adams and Bromfield are treated together in these documents. |
|
| TNA Document | Petition of S. Lillie – Mar. 1715 – PC 1/58/1 | view_Document |
| Catalogued as | Catalogued by TNA with the report of the Attorney General as follows: Petition of Samuel Lillie, merchant of Boston, concerning alleged unjust procedure in the Massachusetts courts of judicature, with report of Attorney General |
| Notes about Document |
A complicated document: Our images are paginated consecutively. Page 1 is Lillie’s second petition. It is unpaginated and undated, though it must postdate 1 August 1714, because it is addressed to George I. The verso is not photographed and not paginated. Our page 2 is unpaginated but the verso is paginated 2. It contains “The Case of Samuel Lillie Merchant in Boston in New England relating to the Ship Samuel tried & determined the Court of Admiralty in New England, Nathaniel Byfield Judge.” This runs to page 9 (paginated 8), where there begins in mid-page “The Case of Samuel Lilley [sic] and Creditors tried and determined in the Courts of Common Law in Boston N. England.” This runs to page 12 (paginated 11), where there begins in mid-page “Case of Samuel Lillie relating to several oppressions and Wrongs sustained by him which have not been tried in any Court of Judicature.” This runs to page 14 (paginated 13). Page 15 (unpaginated but the next page is paginated 2) contains a certified copy of an order in Council dated 30 July 1711 referring the petition of Samuel Lillie to the Attorney General or the Solicitor General. Pages 16 and 17 (paginated 2 and 3) contain a certified copy of the petition of Lillie so referred. In the middle of page 17 begins a certified copy of the Attorney General’s report, the same report contained in the previous document, dated 6 January 1714/15. This continues onto page 18 (unpaginated). The dorse tells us that the document contains the “Petition and Report thereon of Mr Attorney General relating to the admitting of Samuel Lillie to appeal from several Decrees and Judgments given against him in New England.” |
|