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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May 1637 - May 1638 Peterborough, where Thomas Billiard and Matthew Robinson quarreled at the Three Tuns Tavern in … Robinson gave him the lie, calling him a son of a whore and challenging him to fight. Robinson claimed that he had … telling him that he was 'no gentleman nor honest man' and Billiard, in turn, insisted that he responded to Robinson …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… co. Middlesex, gent December 1639 - June 1640 Holborn and Drury Lane as they appeared in 1570, before the building … the early Stuart period. In October 1639 Thomas Mucklowe and William Skipwith fought with swords in Maypole Alley, … house woemen and wenches whoe were reputed to be notorious whores and namely one Fountayne; and somuch hath been taken …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1638 Abstract Norton complained that between February and April 1638 in the parish of St Peter's, Cornhill, London, Dr John Buggs gave him the lie and said that 'I was the sonne of a whore and a base fellow'. Dr Duck was required to prove the libel …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… had boasted that he 'would lay George Rookes on the backe and would not leave him worth a groat, nor a fleece of wool'. … a conflict over holding the office of searcher at Sandwich and Dover. Morgan responded to Rookes's libel in April 1639 and in February 1640 the testimony of Rookes's witnesses was …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… provoking him to duel. Process was granted on 15 June 1640 and Rouse entered bond on 18 November 1640; but the case was … 'Whereas he is a gentleman of coat armour descended and lately come out of the ancient family of Rouse of Rouse Lench in the countie of Worcester, and married the daughter of Sir Thomas Hillersdon, knight, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Hursler, groom of his Majesty's stables, of the same, and Philip Cotham, tailor, of the same January - May 1640 Abstract Sibthorpe, a professional soldier and sergeant major in the king's army in the north, … Hursler, a groom in the king's stables, gave him the lie and called him a base fellow in Hursler's house in Covent …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… November 1638 Abstract Bowen alleged that between February and March 1635, at the Middle Temple in London, Nichols had said that he was 'the son of a whore' and challenged him to a duel. This was probably connected with the confrontation with Guy Moulsworth and William Gartfoote on 16 March 1635 referred to in the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… a Dutch merchant, had jostled him in the street and said that 'Paul Sone was a base fellow, a base rascall and noe gentleman, and that he John Vandeburgh was a better man then I, Paul …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Bray complained that Wenlowe had wished the pox on him and said that he 'loved a whore well'. He added that Bray 'was much indebted when his son married my kinswoman and had little or no stock upon his ground'. No further … 'William Wenlowe, gent., upon conference betwixt him and some others concerning the petitioner did very …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… a large number of people, that he 'was a base fellow, and that all the Vauxes (meaninge the petitioner and his brothers) were the sonns of a whore'. Moreover, … the said wordes.' Process was granted on 25 October 1639 and Vaux entered bond on 15 November; but nothing further …