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162 DISNEY V SAXON
Molineux Disney of Norton Disney, co. Lincoln, esq v John Saxon of Newark, co. Nottingham
June 1639
The market place at Newark in Nottinghamshire where Disney and Saxon quarrelled on a fair day in 1639, with St Mary Magdalen church in the background (Photo: Richard Cust).
Abstract
Disney complained that last Whitsun Tuesday, a fair day, in the street in Newark on Trent, Saxon publicly said 'he cared not a fart for your petitioner and said a turd in his teeth'. When Disney urged him 'to use better termes and speeches', he repeated 'he cared not a fart for your petitioner, and bid him doe his worst.' Process was granted on 22 June 1639 and Daniel Disney of St Andrew's, Holborn, London, gent, entered bond to prosecute; but no further proceedings survive.
Initial proceedings
6/76, Petition to Maltravers
'Upon Whitsuntuesday last past, one John Saxon, alias Saxton, at Newarke in the open streete there, it being a faire day, did publikely say that he cared not a fart for your petitioner and said a turd in his teeth, to which your petitioner answered and wished John Saxon, alias Saxton, to use better termes and speeches. Saxon thereupon again and again said he cared not a fart for your petitioner and bid him doe his worst.'
Petitioned that Saxon be brought to answer.
Maltravers granted process on 22 June 1639.
6/75, Plaintiff's bond
24 June 1639
Bound to appear 'in the Court in the painted Chamber within the Pallace of Westminster'.
Signed by Danyall Disney of St Andrew's, Holborn, London, gent, on behalf of Molineux Disney.
Sealed, subscribed and delivered in the presence of John Watson.
Notes
Molineux Disney (1614-1694) was the son of the royalist Lieutenant-Colonel William Disney of Norton Disney, and Bridget, daughter of Edmund Molyneux of Thorpe, co. Nottingham. On 14 January 1634 he married Mary (d.1669), daughter of Sir Robert Monson, knt. Disney compounded as a royalist intelligencer in 1649, but returned after 1660 to serve as a lieutenant-colonel to George Monck, Duke of Albemarle.
P. R. Newman, Royalist Officers in England and Wales, 1642-1660: A biographical dictionary (London, 1981), pp. 110-11; A. R. Maddison (ed.), Lincolnshire Pedigrees (Publications of the Harleian Society, 50, 1902), vol. 1, p. 307.
Documents
- Initial proceedings
- Petition to Maltravers: 6/76 (22 Jun 1639)
- Plaintiff's bond: 6/75 (24 Jun 1639)
People mentioned in the case
- Disney, Bridget
- Disney, Daniel, gent
- Disney, Mary
- Disney, Molineux, esq
- Disney, William, esq
- Howard, Henry, baron Maltravers
- Molyneux, Bridget
- Molyneux, Edmund
- Monck, George, duke of Albemarle
- Monson, Mary (also Mounson)
- Monson, Robert, knight (also Mounson)
- Saxon, John (also Saxton)
- Watson, John
Places mentioned in the case
- Lincolnshire
- Norton Disney
- London
- St Andrew's, Holborn
- Middlesex
- Westminster
- Nottinghamshire
- Newark
- Thorpe
Topics of the case
- scatological insult