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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… although he belonged to a well-established gentry family from Hawkyard Park, near Rugeley, Staffordshire. Smith was a … Rugely's servant, one Fitzwilliams, who showed a warrant from the commissioners. Fitzwilliams offered a shilling … King's Bench office-holding other courts Star Chamber taxation trespass …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Walter Powell, gent, and Lodovick Jones, clerk, to meet from 18 to 20 April 1639 at the inn of Edward Bowen in the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the auntient seat of the St Legers, which they have held from the tyme of the Norman conquest. Your petitioner humbly … would have ere this remembered himself, who is so far from it that he rants if they were unsaid he would say them … of court military officer nicknaming royalist ship money taxation …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that this respondent having received soe fowle language from him and seeinge him... respondent having none then went …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 412]. Initial proceedings 11/32/5, Libel 1. Salisbury was from an ancient family of co. Denbigh, who had been gentry …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… he had charged Salkeld with having stolen deer and rabbits from one of Popham's warrens. Proceedings were under way by … had Drake charged Salkeld with stealing deer and coneys from the warren, breaking in or climbing over a garden wall near one of Popham's houses, and stealing coneys from the garden? Was this not the occasion of differences …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… and was required to prove his gentility by a certificate from Thomas Thompson, Lancaster Herald, dated 30 May. His … The defence witnesses, most of whom were local yeomen from Egton and Lythe, alleged that Pearson had endured a series of provocations from Salven. In February 1636, at a hearing by commissioners …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Hawkins and John Wilder, gents. The quarrel had arisen from an alcohol-fuelled discussion of accounts, and the … of the case comparison denial of gentility drunkenness taxation …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… had led to imprisonment while in Muscovy and dismissal from his brother's service. Given these circumstances, he … for which Waytes, who had received 'many noble favours' from the Earl, had openly reproached him. Sanderson gave his … libel on 2 June 1638. By November evidence was being taken from his witnesses and Waytes was required to present his …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of gentility justice of the peace office-holding royalist taxation …