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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Leigh in other courts, had supported Burnett with money and attempted to deter his witnesses. The case was under way … it? 13. If the witness deposed that Beard was a common drunk and robber of orchards, he was to be asked how he knew this? Had he seen Beard drunk, or thieving, or had he only heard this, and from whom? …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Stoke Climsland, co. Cornwall, gent v Nicholas Lampen and William Lampen of Stoke Climsland, millers June 1638 - … captain of the local trained band, clashed with Nicholas and William Lampen in an alehouse in 1635. Abstract Mannaton … in the libel, spoken over two years earlier, they had drunk healths to each other and Mannaton had invited them to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… town quarreled with Rowland Meyricke at Alice Webb's inn and outside the jail in 1635 (From, John Speed, Theatre of … inn of Alice Webb in Pembroke, saying 'I was a base rogue, and that himselfe was as good a gentleman as any in Wales'. … that Meyricke did lie. When Meyricke said Catchmaye was drunk, Catchmaye replied, 'But Sirra, thou Meyricke art more …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… London, merchant July 1639 - April 1640 Bishopsgate Street and its surrounds, as it appeared in 1599. Thomas Milles and Thomas Buckley exchanged insults at the Ship Tavern in … Smith before or since. 5. Glascocke and Smith were both drunk, because 'they were not able to make answer to any …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… fellow'. Their quarrel, which stretched back to 1637 and beyond, was over Rookes's possession of the searcher's office for Sandwich and Dover. This office had previously been held by his son … persons'? Whom had he deceived? Did Matthews behave in 'a disorderly manner', with whom and where, and was his …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May 1637 - May 1638 Peterborough, where Thomas Billiard and Matthew Robinson quarreled at the Three Tuns Tavern in … they were again reconciled, and that thereupon they drunk together each to other, let such witness be … home to fetch a flagon of sack, which he did. The sack was drunk by the company present, and they then retired to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Surgeons held to swear in the new master between September and November 1637. Woodhall maintained that he had been provoked by Morris striking him on the head and insulting him. Morris responded that he struck Woodhall's … then and there present'? 5. Were Woodhall or the Polonian drunk 'immediately, or a very short tyme, before the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… co. Middlesex, gent December 1639 - June 1640 Holborn and Drury Lane as they appeared in 1570, before the building … common haunter of alehouses and taverns'. She had seen him drunk two or three times 'that he could not speake plaine and … 'to be idle people, and Johnson had been seen to keep a disorderly house and to entertaine lewd people.' In August …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… in another case between his father, William Freeman, and Robert Hartell [see cause 226]. In addition to his role as commissioner Child was Hartell's landlord and one of his witnesses. Freeman believed that Child had … himself been drinking, provoked him by saying that he was drunk, and that his father, William Freeman, had taken his …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the King's Bench prison. Tomlinson acknowledged his fault and petitioned for release. In April he also signed a … by your lordship to the King's Bench for indiscreete and unadvised arrestinge of Captayne Plunkett upon an accon, … the Captayne had voluntarily offered him satisfaction and for a great affront and publique disgrace putt upon a …