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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… did favour none but knaves such as were like himself, and that he was a dishonest man, and that he would prove the same'. Dixon was a justice of the … witness indebted or obliged to either party and if so by how much? 3. Was the witness a tenant or servant to Dixon; if …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… apprenticed to Babington, a respectable London silkman, and had apparently been injured in the course of his work … recognise the differences with him, for one John Robins, Kemp's man told John Done at Duddon in Cheshire that … William Herbert, Captain Houghton, John, the elder Kemp, Mr Lewin, William, lawyer Parry, George, lawyer Robins, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1640 (Miniature by John Hoskins c.1635, copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London). Abstract Dorset complained that while Rigges and Thomas Badd were arguing at the Red Lion Inn, Fareham, … of the penalty for perjury and bearing false witness. How did they know the parties? 2. Was the witness related to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Randall Minshawe, over getting a ride downstream to London and had ended up, allegedly, insulting the blue coat with a … 'You fellow with the goose on sleeve, you are too saucy and peremptorie', without realising that the coat was Dover's … suggests that the London watermen understood very well how to use the court to protect their interests. Plaintiff's …
16th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… L. 1. An act for the advancing the trade of dornic weavers and better government of the same trade. L. 1. Edward … the Court of Requests, between [John] Edwards the elder and [John] Edwards the younger. Committed to: Sir Clement … customs: 1. The legality thereof. 2. The calculation, how it comes to 40s. upon the sack of wool. 3. The …
16th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… An act to enable [Sir] James Ward, alias Fermor, to sell and dispose a messuage and certain lands in Ibstock within the county of Leicester, … have no other punishment that then his charge [ sic], how shall we justify the sending down a new writ? [f. 56v] …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1635 - February 1636 Philip Herbert, 4th earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, the Lord Chamberlain, copy of a portrait by … lose his place in the household of Henry, Prince of Wales, and more recently for failing to deliver on a promise to make … determination to 'doe some thing to lett the world know how ill you have used me.' On 11 February 1636, Pinchbecke …
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] … him and them. A report from the conference with the Lords, how his Majesty had sent his dispatch to Sir Walter Aston for …
17th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… kt., to sell certain lands for payment of his debts and raising portions to his younger children. L. 2a. An act … the payment of his debts, etc. Committed to the: Knights and burgesses of Wiltshire Mr. John Kent Mr. Attorney Wards … exhibited by [Robert] Grice. For the first, seeing how slow business went on, thought fit to have it as last …
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 … from Bacchus and Mumford, which first and which last, and how and in what manner they were spoken.' 5. After all had …