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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… insisted that as the younger son of 'an ancient family' from Cople, Bedfordshire, where his father and elder brother … provocative of a duel in the Cross Keys Inn, in St Neots, from 8 to 10 April 1640. Dr William Lewin assigned Richard … doore'. He 'was two or three yards or thereabouts distant from John Jackson att the speaking of the words [referred …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… him, with divers base language, without any provocation from the petitioner.' Petitions for process. Dr Duck informs …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of tobacco which Peasley and others took by force from the Custom House after Stafford had denied them …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Davy, clerk, John Smith and James Bonython, gents, to meet from 29 to 31 March 1637 at the house of Philip Webber, in St … house of Philip Webber, gent, in St Minver, co. Cornwall from 29 to 31 March 1637. On 14 October, Dr Eden was directed … was to sit in the court house in Lostwithiel, co. Cornwall from 23 to 25 January 1638. The cause was still depending on …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Petition Stapley claimed to be 'a gentleman descended from an ancient family'. On 26 December 1637 Butt came to … constable giving the lie office-holding ship money taxation …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… found in a ditch in Lancashyre and taken out of a ditch from under a hedge; and that I was a base fellowe, or a base rascall or rogue, and that I was fedd on the scrapps from Bestney's brothers' and sisters' trenchers'. In his … Peel', co. Lancaster. He and his ancestors were sprung from an ancient gentry family. Nicholas Bestney in 1633 or …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… on him and allowed further time to prove his gentility (From, John Speed, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain … produced his defence in November. An initial certificate from the King of Arms concerning Dobbins' gentility was … claim to gentility Herald other courts plague ship money taxation …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… them as yourself', which Williams, an Oxford graduate from a local gentry family, interpreted as an insult and … examine a cause of scandalous words provocative of a duel from 20 to 22 February 1638 in the town hall of … office-holding royalist ship money scatological insult taxation …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… gent v Pollard May 1636 Abstract Proceedings survive from May 1636, but they give no indication of the cause or …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… witnesses were examined at the Bear Inn in April 1636 (From, John Speed, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain … 1897); J. and J. A. Venn (eds.), Alumni Cantabrigienses from the earliest times to 1751 (Cambridge, 1922), vol. 1, p. … courts quarter sessions scatological insult ship money taxation …