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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… a base knave, a rogue, a base fellow, a cheating knave', and 'challenged him to fight with him; and cast downe his glove upon the ground as a pledge'. Penny … speaking these words, maintaining that he was a gentleman and that Ingepen's cause was void because his real name was …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… assistance, Sir Richard demanded Counsell lend him £100 and sell some of his lands to Sir Francis Dodington, J.P. and former sheriff of Somerset. Counsell maintained that … if he refused he would testify in support of the libel and help James prosecute Counsell in Star Chamber for damages …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Jennings complained that Heygate called him 'knave and base knave' in the presence of several persons of quality … a captain of a trained band in Middlesex for five years and particularly resented Heygate saying that 'he would call … that Jennings had instructed his witnesses William Finch and George Pye how to depose. Process was granted on 20 …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… him to duel 'who by reason of his office is to keepe and see the king's peace kept.' He also claimed that … him 'whoreson'. Process was granted on 8 November 1639 and the depositions of Jones's witnesses were presented to … of Robert Edwards, Humphrey Bowen, Charles Lloyd and Francis Griffith, gents, on the 29 December 1640 in the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… with Bleadon Hill in the background, where Edmund Kenn and Henry Robins traded insults whilst hunting hare in early … given him the lie publicly, called him a base gentleman and said that he was a better man than Kenn. A reconciliation … Christopher Olmixton, Maurice Ceelie, Robert Maie, gents, and James Hadlie at Olmixton's house on 22 June 1636 by which …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… directed the funeral of his mother Mary Wiseman at night, and without his order and direction, although he had the right to direct all … as Clarenceux. Wiseman had caused arms to be displayed and carried from his mother's house in St Botolph's without …
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 … Huntingdon, Norfolk and Rutland, but he was killed by friendly fire in July 1643. P. R. Seddon, 'Robert Pierrepont, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… been provoked by Lavingston calling him 'a rascal, a rogue and a base fellow', and taking away the ladder used by the tradesmen who were … were they called by process of the court to testify? What benefit or reward did they expect for testifying and from …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that he 'would not be so very a knave as Lenche and his landlord [Sir Edward Terrell] to take of[f] a rate from themselves and to lay it upon their inferiors'. A warrant to levy £24 in … of Leckhampstead had just been read out in church, and Pollard felt he had been unfairly assessed because he was …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 372 Le Strange v Creamer and Stileman 372 LE STRANGE V CREAMER AND STILEMAN Sir Hamon … private discourse amongest other matters upon private and friendly meetings, taking reason of speaking of the … meeting at which the words by him deposed were spoken were friendly meetings upon other occasions.' Signed by John Tracy …