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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… survive, and it is likely that Lambert was saved from a humiliating submission by the cessation of the court's … Healon, gent, and Edward Howlden, clerk. They were to meet from 11 to 13 January 1640/1 in the inn of Edward Pryce … drunkenness military officer royalist ship money taxation …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Mitton, on Rivers' behalf, had attempted to buy him off from pursuing his action in Common Pleas and that Brookes had … they had been boasting that he would never benefit from the earlier judgement in his favour by the Earl Marshal: … by 'many disgraceful speeches and words of provocation' from Rivers, and what were those words? Were Burley's words …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Darcy was suspected of Roman Catholicism and excluded from the Essex bench, but his close links at court provided …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… co. Cornwall March - May 1636 John 2nd Baron Robartes from a print of 1647 (National Portrait Gallery Creative …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… for mitigation, citing his poverty and also a letter from the Prince of Wales's council asking that he be excused … they were commonly accounted gentlemen and descended from gentlemen? 5. Whether John Samuel the elder had formerly … sayd we are gent and it stoode mee money to search it over from the herraulds, and John Samuell as hee then tould mee …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… have responded 'civillie...saving some words that passed from him when he spoke about his gentilitie.' Slater was … how the Slaters had ascended through three generations from yeomen to gentlemen, mainly by dint of their … sheriff office-holding other courts scatological insult taxation …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… and Hugh Lewis procured a grant to take over the office from Thomas Rookes on 23 November 1637( Coventry Docquets , … whole issue be settled by law. Rookes obtained an order from the privy council in his favour on 9 January 1639, but … of his office. He therefore obtained another order from the council of 27 February 1639 to take possession of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… a gentleman, without any blemish to that stock and family from which he is derived, that, nevertheless, one John Kippes …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1637 the court passed sentence and heard a certificate from the Kings of Arms based on the pedigree presented at the … been gentry for up to 200 years, while Richard Mace was from plebeian stock. From September to April Mace had said … drunkenness Herald insult before gentlemen office-holding taxation visitation …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… defence in February 1638 which included an affidavit from his servant denying the words which the bailiff alleged … and he hath none.' Cur Mil I, fo. 172, Libel Rudd was from a family that had been gentry for up to 300 years, and … in the bill and formerly by Rudd, and hopeth for relief from this honourable court and the justice thereof.' Dated 29 …