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Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Lady [Joan] Jermy to meet 2 [o']clock, Exchequer Chamber, and to be reported first upon Monday next by Sir H[enry] … question, not to be committed. The proviso thirdly read and, upon question, passed. Robert Hall, that served the process upon Sir Robert Brooke, brought to the bar and charged by MR. SPEAKER with this offence, of serving …
24th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Stewart, Walter Stewart, James Maxwell, William Carr and James Levingston, esquires. [CJ 748] The bill of usury recommitted to the former committee. And all that will come to have a voice. Star Chamber, … for continuance of statutes to meet this vacation and prepare the bill against the next access. To meet on …
26th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… sold by Sir Edward Herne unto Bevil Molesworth, esqr., and enabling the said Sir Edward Herne to make sale of other lands for payment of his debts and settling of certain manors, salt marshes and other lands, upon Robert Herne and Edward Herne, sons of …
29th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… A warrant from Mr. Speaker for witnesses, books, writings and records concerning Corpus Christi College in Oxon. to the committee. L. 1a. [ Blank] Knights and burgesses of Surrey and Sussex added to the committee for Sir A[nthony] Aucher. …
30th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… An act for naturalization of Mrs. Elizabeth [ sic] Murray and William Murray, esq. L. 3a. An act for naturalization of … lose the benefit of that act; which twice read in paper, and then engrossed by the Clerk's man at the board, and then thirdly read. And the bill, upon question, passed. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… fellow'. Their quarrel, which stretched back to 1637 and beyond, was over Rookes's possession of the searcher's office for Sandwich and Dover. This office had previously been held by his son … but in August 1635 George had obtained the reversion to it and, after a series of suits resulting in his son's …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… given him the lie in the presence of several gentlemen, and had said 'a turd in thy teeth'. Pearse entered bond to … Petition to Arundel 'The petitioner being a gent of armes and antient descent was in July last before divers gentlemen much abused by many evill and base words given him by William Steward of Lakenheath in …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… to the Long Parliament 'Committtee on the Constable and Marshall' on 2 December 1640 mentioned Sir John Rivers's … he could prove himself a better gentleman than Sir John and had threatened to cut off the legs of Sir John's dogs who … Bowton was committed to prison merely upon Rivers's libel and that he had to give a bond of £100 to appear before the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of Iver, Buckinghamshire, Seers said 'that I was a knave and a base gentleman', in the presence of witnesses who included William Hawkins and John Wilder, gents. The quarrel had arisen from an alcohol-fuelled discussion of accounts, and the general consensus among the witnesses was that …
5th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… To let them have a time to produce their deeds and avow them. Recommitted. Mr. [William] Noye Sir John … this complaint exhibited to the committee of grievances, and courts of justice, and to have the Lord Treasurer have a copy of his charge. SIR …