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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… doe confesse that we are fully agreed, and with your honor's good liking, I intend not to proceed any further against … of the case arbitration giving the lie insult before gentlemen provocative of a duel reconciliation …
16th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… that the Duke of Lennox, Lord High Steward of his Majesty's Household, was suddenly dead, whereby their power of … about two of the clock that afternoon by his Majesty's commission under the Great Seal of England, directed to … and would be presently ready to depart. Then one of the gentlemen of his chamber to whom this word was brought …
16th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… [CJ 687; f. 45] Martis , 16 0 Martii , 21 0 Jacobi Bill of s upersedeas in the afternoon, Court of Wards. Sir William … EDWARD COKE. Not to take away the jointure of young Cope's wife. MR. [JOHN] GLANVILLE. To have this bill to extend to … that the affirmative of his offence was proved by worthy gentlemen, and his witnesses are mean men who seek to prove a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… v Doubleday 172 DUCK V DOUBLEDAY Arthur Duck, LL.D., King's Advocate v Thomas Doubleday, Robert Walsh, Cassy Borrough, gents, and John Coxe, the Earl Marshal's messenger May - June 1638 Abstract This was a cause of … the contrarie, [Doubleday] desired Walsh to referr it to gentlemen then present... ... ... their knowledge therein. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… v Hanslopp 174 DUCK V HANSLOPP Arthur Duck, LL.D., King's Advocate v Thomas Hanslopp of Aynho, co. Northampton … This was a cause of office promoted by Dr Duck, king's advocate, against Thomas Hanslopp of Aynho in September … that Hanslopp's ancestors had been plebeians and not gentlemen over the past 200 years, and that Hanslopp for the …
17th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Have condemned 1, viz., Sir F[erdinando] Gorges's patent for a plantation in New England. Their counsel … their hurt, and therefore would have it only of country gentlemen. It was ordered there should be no subcommittee, … to peruse it that no mistaking. The King: my Lords and gentlemen all, I have nothing to say to the preamble but that …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Backus alleged that around the spring of 1636 at the Hart's Horn in Cambridge Mountford had said of him that he was 'a … abode, lived and had the reputation of yeomen and not of gentlemen, and that both or one of them was high constable of … half or 2 years ago 'there was some wrangling amongst the gentlemen being in a low roome' in her house in Cambridge …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Duck v Woodall 182 DUCK V WOODALL Arthur Duck, LL.D., King's Advocate v John Woodall of St Benet Fink, London, gent, … of altering of armes.' Dr Merrick did not begin Woodall's defence until February 1640 and the arms painters made … thereby asserted and alleged that he and his family were gentlemen, and that he bore the armes of his family approved …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… who had falsely assumed the title of gentleman. Edgecumbe's fifteen witnesses were examined by a commission headed by … now also a deputy lieutenant. He and his ancestors were gentlemen for as long as Rowe could remember, and some of … Thomas Stephens's ancestors were 'common people and noe gentlemen and soe reputed and taken'. Thomas Stephens had …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Gilbert Dethick, registrar. 20/3d, Libel 1. Eglesfield's family had been gentry for up to 300 years. Between January … March 1638 in the above parish, Cole said before several gentlemen 'that I was a base fellow, a base rascall, and gave … denial of gentility giving the lie insult before gentlemen provocative of a duel …