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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Lovell which Henry Chaloner leased from Edward Heylin in 1637 (Photograph: Richard Cust) The notary's mark of … begun over six years earlier at the house of John Butler in Witney when a game which involved pulling off each … company where I was, I made him there (notwithstanding his great hanger and his pistoll which he there shewed to my …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… base fellowe, a base cowardly rascall, and no gentleman' in the presence of witnesses. Chambers maintained he could … for many years served his lordship [Thomas Lord Windsor] in the place and quality of a gentleman (which title your … appeared in the 1634 Visitation of Worcestershire. A. T. Butler (ed.), The Visitation of Worcestershire, 1634 …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Dando, co. Somerset November 1637 - November 1638 Bath in 1610. William King's witnesses were examined at the Three Tuns Inn there in March 1638 (From, John Speed, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611)) Thomas Johnson’s 1675 drawing of the …
10th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of privileges on Tuesday next. SIR JAMES PERROT puts in a bill for catechizing of children. Ministers' leases. All … For the first, resolved the number former might confer in the Painted Chamber presently. For the second, Monday, … JERMYN. Understands by a common fame that in Spain a great fleet, the greatest force by sea that these many years …
10th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… payment of debts and to establish others of better value in lieu thereof. SIR JOHN ELIOT. That as informed, these … and Edward Herne, sons of the said Sir Edward Herne, kt., in recompense of the same. [f. 32v] Committed to: Sir Edward … thereunto, nor the question ever stirred. The matter of great weight and therefore the committee would deliver no …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… And to be read again tomorrow. Motion made about the great want of powder within the kingdom. This by Mr. [John] Evelyn's fault. This patent to be delivered in by Mr. Evelyn upon Friday next, peremptorily. [Edward] Egerton's committee, tomorrow, 2 [o']clock, in the former place. [f. 35] SIR W[ALTER] EARLE reports the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… and two others at a private sessions (to your supplicant's great loss and hindrance), which your supplicant disproved in open court at the quarter sessions. And having obtained an … of children, and being not able any longer to contend in law with soe powerful an adversarie, that respects neither …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of Durham, mercer February 1638 - February 1639 Durham in 1610, home of Thomas Tunstall, a local mercer (From, John Speed, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611)) Abstract Claxton, the eldest son of Sir … had written that he 'had degenerated from his gentility' in a replication exhibited in a cause between them heard at …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… company. The quarrel took place at Robert Smyth's inn in Great Torrington, Devon, around Christmas 1636, when Coffin … the lie and declaring that 'he would procure more friends in the Court of Chivalry than James Coffyn could.' His …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… esq, which was to meet at the Black Bull Inn at Wisbech in the Isle of Ely between 28 and 30 March 1638. On 6 … to Arundel 'At a publique meeting of the county at Wisbech in the Isle, the petitioner, together with the Lord Bishopp … with other provoking and opprobrious words, to the great disgrace of the petitioner.' Petitioned that Landen be …