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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… in the presence of several gentlemen, and said 'if he had a redd coate on his back he were as good a man'. Coxe was … of submission Text as in the submission above, 4/4 Cox was required to certify his performance on the first … clerk Carleton, Anthony, gent Coxe, William, gent (also Cox) Dethick, Gilbert, registrar Duck, Arthur, lawyer …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Captain Plunkett complained that Tomlinson had affronted a Spanish colonel during a scuffle in Tomlinson's house in January 1638, for which the … fault and petitioned for release. In April he also signed a quitclaim discharging Plunkett from all Tomlinson's …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Poyntz's mother, Grizelle, Lady Poyntz, calling her 'a base stinking Lady' for having 'taken a false oath', and … 'In Januarie last past, beinge at the house of William Cox at Asher [Long Ashton], he thus spake against the Ladye … Poyntz does not appear in the Visitations of Somerset: F. T. Colby (ed.), The Visitation of the County of Somerset …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… and 1613 (Publications of the Harleian Society, 33, 1891); A. W. Hughes Clarke and A. Campling (eds.), The Visitation of Norfolk, anno domini … Nov 1637) People mentioned in the case Coxe, Edward (also Cox) Hobart, John, knight and baronet Howard, Henry, baron …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1639 - November 1640 The notary's mark of Peter Whitehead, a hand drawn self portrait at the end of the depositions … has nothing to depose on the articles. Signed by Richard Cox and commissioners Chadwick and Noble. Acta (5), fo. 252v, … Cotton, Richard, labourer Coxe, Richard, cordwainer (also Cox) Danvers, John, gent Danvers, William, esq / gent Eden, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 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 … esq, won the cause, with Nichols being censured to pay a fine of 50 marks to the king, with costs and damages to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… The Theatre of Great Britain (1611)) Abstract Somerset, a younger son of the Earl of Worcester, complained that Good … had declared in summer 1636, in Good's house, that he 'was a base knight and as base a conditioned knight as any was in England, and that he did …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of 'divers persons of dignity', Bestney said that he was 'a foundling, found in a ditch in Lancashyre and taken out of a ditch from under a hedge; and that I was a base fellowe, or …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of several witnesses that his brother, Hugh Sydenham, 'was a base scurvey fellowe', that all Sydenham's brethren 'were … and £30 expenses and on 9 July 1639, in response to a petition pleading poverty, Lord Maltravers granted Cruse … commission of the peace for Somerset in September 1626. F. T. Colby (ed.), The Visitation of the County of Somerset …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… gent November 1637 - February 1639 Abstract This was a parallel suit to Thomas Lenche's against Pollard, also in … before many parishioners that he would 'not be so verie a knave as Lench and his landlord, to take of[f] a rate from themselves and to laie it upon there …