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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… EM116, Petition 'Your petitioner is a gent of an ancient family and upon or about the 21 day of February last 1637[8] … Gird alias Knight as husbandman. 1. Prowse was from a family that had been gentry for up to 300 years. 2. Gyrd …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that Hugh Prust is a gent descended of an ancient family bearing armes and that I did him much wronge by …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… huld the cause.' Cur Mil II, fo. 62a, Libel 1. Pudsey's family had been reputed ancient gentry for up to 300 years, … 1. Pudsey was commonly accounted a gentleman of an ancient family, but Johnson 'is not commonly reputed to be a … 10 years, aged about 60 To Pudsey's libel: 1. Pudsey's family were always accounted gentlemen 'bearing armes and of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… to the great disparagement of your petitioner and his family, all which and more he is ready to prove by sufficient …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Initial proceedings 18/1g, Libel [damaged] Pygott's family had been gentry for up to 200 years and were descended of the ancient gentry family of Pyggott of Denbigh, whereas Sherriffe and his family were plebeians. Sherriffe said of Pygott in the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… and delivered by John Watson. 18/4a, Libel 1. Richardson's family had been reputed gentry for up to 200 years. 2. In the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Acta (4), fo. 311, Libel 1. Rigges was descended from a family that had been gentry for up to 200 years. 3. Thomas … [Inserted later] Was Rigges a gentleman of an ancient family and had Rigges's father been accounted a gentleman? … William Le Neve. Notes There was no pedigree for the Badd family, but Jane, daughter of Emanuel Badd. married Thomas …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… your petitioner is a gentleman descended of an ancient family, one George Lambert of Great Carlton in the County of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… any Darcy in England', which words were an insult to his family. The libel was given and the court required it to be … Initial proceedings 18/1i, Libel [damaged] Rivers's family had been nobility for many years, whereas Weekes's family had for all that time been plebeians. Weekes had said …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… a range of witnesses to demonstrate that he and his family had long been accounted gentlemen, and also paying for … and have matched with good familyes; and one of the family matched with the daughter of Harris of Launceston, … Samuell was and is a gentleman borne, and of an ancient family bearing arms that he is son and heir to [space left …