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10th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of Sir Robert Anstruther, Sir George Abercromby and [Dr.] John Craig. Committed to: [f. 125] Sir George More … to the award. To have the Speaker to grant Edward Bois and Doctor Bois his warrant for these. Wednesday next to be … bill of Magdalen College. L. 1. An act for the catechizing and instruction of children. Speaker went out of his chair, …
10th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Jacobi L. 2a. An act to enable William, Earl of Hertford, and Sir Francis Seymour, kt., his brother, to sell certain manors and lands for payment of debts and to establish others of better value in lieu thereof. SIR …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'There having been sondrie suits, betweene your petitioner and one Henry Heskett, who albeit he by his indirect courses and subtill practices hath much prejudiced your petitioner … both by slanderous defamations impaired his good name, and upon mere spleene indited your petitioner and two others …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that in August 1639 Barber had said that he was a cozener and that 'he learned nothing by hearing of sermons but to come home and cosen his neighbours'. Process was granted on 10 October … of divers persons, say that your petitioner was a cozener and that he is joined with his man to cosen him Barber; and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1637 Abstract The cause of the quarrel between Codrington and Ithell remains unknown, but sentence was awarded against Ithell and his submission was performed on Friday 9 June 1637 in the … Gloucester, before Robert Smith of Wotton, Thomas Webb, and others invited by Codrington. Submission R.19, fo. 31r, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the top of the walled town. Abstract Coffin was 'accounted and reputed to be a souldier' since he had served as a lieutenant on the Cadiz and Isle de Rhé expeditions and commanded a Devon militia company. The quarrel took place …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… - November 1638 Abstract Colvile, a justice of the peace and former high sheriff, petitioned that at a public meeting at Wisbech between August and October 1637, together with the Bishop of Ely, he wrote … Society, 41, 1897), p. 105; J. Broadway, R. Cust and S. K. Roberts (eds.), A Calendar of the Docquets of Lord Keeper …
11th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of the yearly rent of £82 10s. to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and his successors forever out of certain manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments thereby assured to Edward Fisher, esq., and …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… H[enry] Poole Mr. Thomas Fanshawe Sir M[iles] Fleetwood And all that will come to have voice. Wednesday, Whitsun … [ROBERT] SNELLING moves concerning Wintertonness lights and the survey of coals, which takes from the merchants of … to sit for this in [ sic] Thursday in the afternoon; and the committee for trade to sit then in the Exchequer …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Carlyle had said that he was as good a man as Constable and a few weeks later had declared that John was a 'gentleman … entered bond to prosecute the cause on Constable's behalf and in Michaelmas term a commission for examining Constable's … Initial proceedings 5/116, Petition 'Your petitioner and his ancestors have been and are descended of an ancient …