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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of London, gents June - July 1639 Christ's Hospital in the seventeenth century which provided 120 boys to mourn … at the funeral of their benefactor, Mirabella Bennett, in May 1639 Abstract This was a cause of office in which Dr Duck prosecuted Myles and Holland for falsely …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1639 - February 1640 Abstract This was a cause of office in which Dr Duck prosecuted Raleigh for attempting to fight a … a coate... let us end it strucke Sir William St Ravie in the face and drewe blood of him, and holding the naked sword in your hand you said... two to two, come lett us to it, lett …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… who was not a gentleman. The arms were Argent three Fusils in fess/pale/bend Gules/Sable/Azure/Vert [?each] charged with … without a warrant from the Earl Marshal. The arms were 'In a field argent three fusills in... [hole in MS three or four words missing] charged with a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… one of the trio of causes of office commenced by Dr Duck in May 1634 following the recent Visitation of London by Sir … St George, Richmond Herald. All were about displaying coats of arms to which the defendants were not entitled. In this case Underwood was accused of having buried his …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 3 May 1634, of falsifying the genealogy of Peter Farnden in an ancient shield of arms, giving him the arms and … knight marshal. Plaintiff's case 7/15, Notes of Arguments in Court 'William Winchell pictorem 'This painter hath given … knight marshall.' Winchell made the escutcheons. 'Called in the visitation asked he answered he knew no armes he had …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… against Woodall for laying claim to a forged coat of arms in the libel of his Court of Chivalry suit against Richard … with it, he argued, must have happened when he had left it in the court registry. William Sedgwick, household servant to … painted the coat of arms of Gules three Escallops Argent in 1635 when he was servant to Henry Lilly, the late Rouge …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… co. Warwick, gent May 1637 William Dugdale portrayed in the frontispiece of his The Antiquities of Warwickshire … 'I beare Argent a Cross Moleyn gules with a Torteaux in the dexter quarter '. Kittermaster replied, 'You are … I beare Argent a Cross Moleyn gules with a Torteaux in the dexter quarter , to which Sumner replyed, you are …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Eyre complained he had been insulted by Keresforth in the hall of William Dickenson's inn at Rotherham, Yorkshire, in the presence of other gentlemen on 18 March 1638. The two men were quarrelling over a Star Chamber case in which John Reresby and Samuel Ballard esqs had brought an …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… his arms and genealogy on a shield of arms. Proceedings in the case were mentioned on 26 April and 3 May 1634, but … case was subsumed into Dr Duck's prosecution of Winchell in the same month [see cause 181]. [For another case … and fabricated the genealogy of Peter Farnden of Sussex in an ancient shield of arms, and that he gave Farnden the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… knight' at the Spread Eagle, and later at the Swan Inn, in Gloucester, at the time of the midsummer quarter sessions in 1636. In the presence of a gentleman and several yeomen 'of …