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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… complained that Lunsford, later Lieutenant of the Tower and a notorious royalist swordsman, had intended to break the … him to fight. Whatman explained that his son was at home in Chichester at the time and that his right hand was lame which disabled him from …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May 1639 Vaynol Old Hall, co. Caenarfon, the Elizabethan home of Sir William Williams, with his family chapel … a common pasture, Richard Williams threw stones at him and threatened to unhorse him, calling him 'villaine'. Process was granted on 24 May 1639 and Sir William entered bond; but nothing further survives. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… knowing from whence he came, nor whither he would [go]'; and that if Winter 'had not layen with his wife in her former … called him 'a beggarly fellowe [who] durst not goe home for feare of bayliffs'. Process was granted on 16 December 1639 and both parties entered bonds; but nothing further survives. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… V ALLOTT Sir Francis Wortley of Wortley, co. York, knt and bart v Robert Allott of Worsbrough Dale, co. York, yeoman … of his men thou art a rogue: for he keeps none but beggars and rascalls, and he is no better himselfe; and doe you tell … and further sayth that the reason wherefore he did not go home that night was for because there came other persons that …
7th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Sir Gilbert Gerard Knights, burgesses, Cambridge, Suffolk and Norfolk Sir Clement Throckmorton Sir Alexander St. John … sale of the lands of Sir Anthony Aucher, Sir Roger James and John Wroth. Committed to: Mr. Secretary Calvert Sir … he desires a clear and public way. Our connivance at home did not procure any ease to the Protestants abroad, but …
8th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… L. 2. Lady [Mary] Bulkeley's bill. MR. [WILLIAM] NOYE. He and some others appointed to search precedents, whether those … beginning of Richard the 2[nd], a great number one way, and other. Some petitions that begin above thus: " A nostre … there were of them? Responsum, 2,000 and upwards at home and abroad. 2. How many cloths they vented this last …
8th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… to be engrossed. L. 2a. An act concerning the purveyance and taking of horses, carts and carriages, by land or by water, for his Majesty's … he fears that this bill will occasion the Dutch to call home their money. He is jealous of all new laws and desires …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May - August 1640 The Elizabethan house at Trerice, the home of John Arundell (Photograph: Richard Cust) Abstract … contended that he had spoken the words in 'a merry and pleasant way' and the following day had made a full apology, putting his …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… had assumed the wardship of Heane's nephew, James Heane, and the two men made a £10 wager over whether a Mr Morse had … 'the Heanes were as good men or better' than the Callows and challenging him 'to do what he durst do with four … and threatening to 'lay [him] safe enough' when he came home. Proceedings on the case were under way by January 1635 …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1639 - May 1640 The fourteenth parish church of St Mary and All Saints at Willingham, Cambridgeshire which hosted the cudgels match between Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely at which William Crispe challenged the … his house to dinner who accepted of his courtesie and went home with him'. Castell 'gave Crispe free welcome and in a …