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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… apprenticed to Babington, a respectable London silkman, and had apparently been injured in the course of his work … 1639, but soon after Babington regretted his outbursts and approached Thomas Bavand, esq, a London based Chester … took place with Babington at the Greyhound Tavern in Fleet Street. Meanwhile, on 20 March 1640, Bavand and John …
17th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… bill. Monday, Star Chamber, burgesses of Kent, Surrey and Sussex. SIR NATHANIEL RICH. A member of this House sued … weavers. Committed to: Knights, burgesses of Norfolk and Suffolk Burgesses of Bristol, Norwich, London [William] … HENRY POOLE tenders a petition from the prisoners of the Fleet. To have a committee to examine these abuses, as the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1637 - April 1638 Early Stuart Cambridge. John Backus and Simon Mountford quarrelled in the Harts Horn Inn in … Mountford had said of him that he was 'a base fellow and no gentleman.' Mountford claimed that Backus had provoked … a notorious debtor who had spent much of his time in the Fleet prison and that his father and grandfather were yeomen. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… quarrelling over a Star Chamber case in which John Reresby and Samuel Ballard esqs had brought an action against Keresforth, George Sitwell gent and others. Keresforth's contention was that Reresby and … soliciting the same, Mr Ballard beinge a prisoner in the Fleet and not prosecuting the cause, Mr Rearesby declaimed …
19th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… to send 4 of each company to attend at 2 o'clock, Tuesday, and to be heard why restraint shall not be enlarged. Ordered, … be given to all the merchants to send 4 of every company. And to have them set down the present state of trade in their … of Ireland; strengthening our forts; setting out a fleet; assisting the Low Countries, 10,000; 40,000 to …
1st April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… to have voice. L. 1. An act touching taking apprentices and money with them. SIR THOMAS WENTWORTH prefers a petition … that came for Sir Richard Beaumont. A number of recusants and papists brought in: 40 of them made burgesses to carry … is precedents for it. The King of Spain has as great a fleet as in [15]88. He has been providing divers flat-bottoms …
1st March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… for certain ordinances in the King's Majesty's dominion and principality of Wales. SIR A[RTHUR] INGRAM moves that … from the House to Dr. [Isaac] Bargrave for his sermon; and that he will take further pains to put the same in print. … To secure ourselves by preparing and setting out our own fleet; and to do this by those penalties the papists have …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… called his wife Elizabeth 'Goldback Jade, Mangy Jade, and feend' in church before a large congregation. Process was granted on 3 November 1637 and on the 28 th Dr Duck alleged that the words against … esq. In 1638 he was imprisoned for a fortnight in the Fleet. Royalist in his sympathies, he was M.P. for Steyning …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Winchell, arms painter, had given Peter Farnden his arms and genealogy on a shield of arms. Proceedings in the case were mentioned on 26 April and 3 May 1634, but not thereafter as the case was subsumed … esq. In 1638 he was imprisoned for a fortnight in the Fleet. Royalist in his sympathies, he was M.P. for Steyning …
20th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… L. 2. An act for the naturalizing of Abigail Little and William Little. Ordered, to be engrossed. Sir William Cope added to the committee for the Fleet. L. 2. An act for the speedier payment of the debts of … be engrossed. L. 2. An act for the true making of serges and perpetuanas. Committed to: [f. 154] Mr. Comptroller Sir …