Search
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… London, merchant July 1639 - April 1640 Bishopsgate Street and its surrounds, as it appeared in 1599. Thomas Milles and Thomas Buckley exchanged insults at the Ship Tavern in … name noe man but if he can prove any such thinge against my kinswoman I will be asmuch against her as ever I have been …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May - June 1639 The funeral monument to Sir John Millicent and his wife in St Mary’s church, Linton, Cambridgeshire. … that in the presence of several witnesses, between January and March 1639, Flacke called him 'a base gentleman' and a … 20s for every baronet and knight. The order was endorsed: 'My lord Marshal being acquainted herewith sent his secretary …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that Jones had called him 'a base, baffled rogue', and a coward who had been 'kicked out of doores' by one … the landlord on behalf of Jones, Minshall drew his sword and 'swore he would naile [Jones] to the wall'. Jones, … Jones further, saying 'he lived by walking of horses', and Jones replied that Minshall was 'the cheater that did use …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… during a game of piquet by palming two of the cards and attempting to discard them when Monson was not looking. … to fight and declaring, 'If you will fight I will lend you my sword, and I will have another.' Monson tried to calm the … and called the rest of his game, and plaid his first card, Welch did hold the two cards which he had to many in …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that Fowlkes called him a base fellow, 'a bastard and the sonne of Cap. Lloyd', between August and October 1638 in the parish of Poole, Montgomeryshire. He … of a base kindred, and that he neither cared for me nor my base kindred.' 3. He also said that 'I was a bastard and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May 1637 - May 1638 Peterborough, where Thomas Billiard and Matthew Robinson quarreled at the Three Tuns Tavern in … Robinson gave him the lie, calling him a son of a whore and challenging him to fight. Robinson claimed that he had … where the lawe shall right mee and I will not right my selfe'. In spite of all this, in May 1637 Billiard pressed …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… co. Middlesex, gent December 1639 - June 1640 Holborn and Drury Lane as they appeared in 1570, before the building … the early Stuart period. In October 1639 Thomas Mucklowe and William Skipwith fought with swords in Maypole Alley, … Eden. 'Mr Watson I pray accept of these interr *in paper* my man shall engrosse them tomorrow or next day and take out …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… legal proceedings against him at the Guildhall, and had said 'that he would have me hold up my hand at the barr for killing his mother'. He also claimed … instigating legal proceedings against him at the Guildhall and had said 'that he would have me hold up my hand at the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that there was a gallows nearby that 'groaned for him, and for such other base conditioned scurvy gentlemen or fellows as he was', adding that Bingham's 'estate and meanes would hang him the sooner: for to his knowledge … of the words here expressed are fitt for action in my L. Marshals Court. Others are fitt to be omitted which I …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1639 Abstract Nicholls complained that between March and May 1638 in St Andrews, Holborn, Lloyd had said that 'Randolph Nicolls is noe gentleman, but a rogue and a rascall; and the cause I will not fight with him is … the arme and pulled the stoole from under me and struck up my heeles, and threw me on my back, and sett his foote upon …