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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… fee for curing Mr Cooke who was dining with Robert Hale and Francis Goldsmith. When Gill demanded a £30 fee, Hale questioned his honesty and said that he 'was a rascall and should be pumped'. Process was granted on 1 February 1640 …
24th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… SIR EDWARD HOWARD elects to serve for Calne in Wiltshire, and relinquishes Wallingford in Berkshire. SIR EDWARD COKE … the realm of that which is the life of the kingdom: trade and [ blank]; the want of vent of native commodities, which brings a great want of money; and that begets a disvaluation of all our native commodities. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… felt he had been deceived of his money in a card game and claimed that while Matthews verbally abused him another … his lodgings for his sword after the initial altercation and returned to strike Needham, drawing blood and tearing his band. He maintained that Greaves would have …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… scandalous words against Amcotts, a Lincolnshire J.P. and the son of Sir Richard Amcotts, Knight of the Bath. … June 1638, Shuttleworth said that he was 'as good a man, and as good a gentleman, and a better man and a better gentleman than Mr Amcotts of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… London, had killed her late husband, William Wise, steward and cooper of the same vessel, in a duel at Renews Harbour, … that he been seeking to prevent Wise from raising a mutiny and murdering Vincent Harris, the captain. Discipline had broken down on board ship, with much drunkenness, and a duel arranged between William Derson, the master, and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1640 Abstract Keresforth complained that between March and August 1639, in Gray's Inn Lane, in St Andrew's parish, … Holborn, London, Scamaden said that he was 'a base fellow and no gentleman' that his name was not Keresforth but … 'he knew all that were of the right house of Keresforth, and that I was not of that familie; and said that the coate …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'Thou bearest thyself soe high on thy Mr John Pierpoint, and thy M[aste]r soe highe on the earle of Kingston that men … been spoken, in the earl's absence, before local farmers and their wives out in the barley fields of Wadworth at … anxious for Copley's appearance in the court as Copley and his father entered a bond for £1,000 in June 1637. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… nobleman in the 1630s (From, James Wright, The History and Antiquities of Rutland (1684)) Abstract Andrewes, the … of having called him 'the son of a whore, a base fellow, and noe gentleman' in the highway from Nottingham to London … inn of Michael Cooke in Nottingham on 4 September 1638, and testified that the two men had quarrelled prior to this …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… v Guy Moulsworth of St Andrew's, Holborn, co. Middlesex and William Gartfoote of the Inner Temple, London, gents … West, where Robert Napper was insulted by Guy Moulsworth and William Gartfoote is immediately above (From the plan of … a student of the Middle Temple, complained that Moulsworth and Gartfoote provoked him to duel in the parish of St …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… home of Francis Godophin, esquire, justice of the peace and commissioner for taking witness statements at Penzance in … He took out a bond to prosecute the case on 29 June 1637 and on 28 November Dr Duck responded to his libel. A commission headed by Francis Basset and Francis Godolphin, esqs., was appointed to meet to …