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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'reputed' to be worth £1000 a year, had spat in his face and insulted him in the Nag's Head, in Worcester, on 27 … the quarrel had begun when his wife claimed that 'if she and her husband had been well dealt withal they had had that … 3-6. Somers and Edmund Baxter were present, but Somers had drunk much and was asleep on a bench in the room. To …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1640 (Miniature by John Hoskins c.1635, copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London). Abstract Dorset complained that while Rigges and Thomas Badd were arguing at the Red Lion Inn, Fareham, … and behaviour at the time and place, and were they not drunk or very far gone in drink' at the pretended speaking of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Randall Minshawe, over getting a ride downstream to London and had ended up, allegedly, insulting the blue coat with a … 'You fellow with the goose on sleeve, you are too saucy and peremptorie', without realising that the coat was Dover's … so he refused to go in it. 5. The waterman 'was then drunk and railed at Humphrey Fox and gave him much abusive …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1637 - April 1638 Early Stuart Cambridge. John Backus and Simon Mountford quarrelled in the Harts Horn Inn in … Mountford had said of him that he was 'a base fellow and no gentleman.' Mountford claimed that Backus had provoked … 'Hath he not spent much money in such places, vainely, disorderly and idlely? Is he not for such a one commonly …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… esq., to sell certain lands for payment of his debts and preferment of his younger children. Upon question, … Twyne, a fellow of Corpus Christi, being 5 times found drunk in the college, the president being told of it [ … who, being 5 times complained of to him to have been found drunk, was not censured by him for it nor admonished until …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… for 200 years, it was rumoured that the fathers of Badd and Rigges had been tradesmen. Both parties were skilled in … drinking healths at Lady Norton's on the same day, 'or had drunk much before he came thither, and thereby was much … and confess that he had been drinking verie hard and had drunk verie much wine and beare just before you came to the …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Lady [Joan] Jermy to meet 2 [o']clock, Exchequer Chamber, and to be reported first upon Monday next by Sir H[enry] … question, not to be committed. The proviso thirdly read and, upon question, passed. Robert Hall, that served the … first. Pretermitted customs began then. Now a man may be drunk by dispensation. It was excepted in the last bill of …
25th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Ward's bill, former place. Northampton, Stafford, knights and burgesses added to the committee. Knights, burgesses, Northampton added to [Thomas] Cope's bill. And the Bishop [of] Coventry to have notice of it. Monday … justices of peace of Middlesex to make search for those disorderly fellows. [ Blank] That the King desires there may …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… between two senior local officeholders. Gwynne was a J.P. and deputy lieutenant and 'esteemed to be of the best family … complained that Lewes had said to him 'Sir, you were drunk yesterday. Is that newse to you?', adding, in an … Lewes had said to Gwynne at Presteigne: 'Sir, you were drunk yesterday and repeated the same words. And said …
26th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… sold by Sir Edward Herne unto Bevil Molesworth, esqr., and enabling the said Sir Edward Herne to make sale of other lands for payment of his debts and settling of certain manors, salt marshes and other lands, … anyone, what if a drunkard do accuse 10 others, being drunk, the justice may punish them for his only testimony. …