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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 Ballard had abandoned the action, but that it had been …
19th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… 1624 L. 1. An act for the naturalizing of Abigail Little and William Little. L. 1. An act for incorporating the apothecaries of London, and within seven miles. Committee for the bill of [John] … Edwards. Counsel assigned: Serjeant Thynne, Mr. Hugh Pyne and Mr. Moore. [ Blank] L. 1. An act to restrain butchers …
19th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… first unto the Abbey, with the Prince his Highness, and attended by the Lords, judges, etc. At the Abbey, the Bishop of Exeter preached before him; and after the sermon, he came into the higher House of … the Privy Council, members of the House of Commons and great numbers of other the members thereof attended, …
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 increase or decrease, since the last Parliament and the reasons of this and of the decay [of] money, in …
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 … the return. Heard no counsel on either side. Had the writ and 2 indentures. Sir Henry Holcroft double-returned, he …
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. Ordered, Sir A[rthur] Ingram and Sir Edward Villiers shall do it. L. 1a. An act for …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Haskett called him 'base fellow, base conditioned fellow' and told him that he fed 'on sheeps henges or gathers; and challenged him to come forth for he dared to fight with him; and was not fearefull or affeard of him'. Fillioll also …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… had called him 'a vagrant knight' at the Spread Eagle, and later at the Swan Inn, in Gloucester, at the time of the … quarter sessions in 1636. In the presence of a gentleman and several yeomen 'of creditt', Perkes had said that Fisher was 'noe gentleman, and that he was as good a gentleman as Sir Edward Fisher, and …
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 … be engrossed. L. 2. An act for the true making of serges and perpetuanas. Committed to: [f. 154] Mr. Comptroller Sir … Knights, burgesses of Norfolk, Suffolk, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, Essex, London, Hampshire Thursday next, 2 …
20th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Cope Sir Henry Poole Knights, burgesses, Oxford[shire] and Berkshire Sir Richard Harrison Mr. [Edmund] Dunch Sir Guy … Palmes Sir Isaac Wake Burgesses of University [of] Oxford and Oxford town Sir George Manners Sir Hugh Myddelton Sir … Chamber. [f. 75] Mayor of Winchelsea brought to the bar and made his submission. Heartily sorry for his offence and …