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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the length of your sword.' The words were spoken at an inn in Presteigne, Radnorshire, at a meeting with Mr Hill, the king's auditor, attended by local gentry and officials on 31 October 1638. Gwynne's witnesses, including a former sheriff, supported his story, …
26th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… SERJEANT [RICHARD] DIGGES reports [Sir Thomas] Redferne's bill, agreed by all the committees. Engrossetur. MR. SERJEANT [WILLIAM] TOWSE reports Colchester['s] bill with a proviso added for Mr. [ sic] [Thomas] Lucas, … Court of Wards. A writ of error [CJ 691] lies in the King's Bench for the Chancery, for that part where a court of …
26th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… exhibited. Their power somewhat defective. The committee's desire to have their power enlarged to send for witnesses, … 44M69/F4/20/1 [p. 12] Thursday morning SIR ROBERT PHELIPS'S motion that the power of the committee should be enlarged … ROBERT MANSELL. Assent all will; soldiers fear naturally. S emble indiscreet de instruct le enemy. The bill for fees to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… co. York, gent May 1637 - July 1638 Sir Ralph Hansby’s sixteenth century house, Tickhill Castle in Yorkshire. … Robert Rockley, esq, 9-11 January 1638, at Thomas Milner's Swan Inn at Bawtry, Yorkshire. French lost the case and on 14 …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'bid him alight from his horse'. This happened on St James's Day, 25 July 1637, on the highway at Bucknell, Oxfordshire, … to Aynho. It was the day after the funeral of Staunton's deceased master, Richard Cartwright, esq, and he maintained … a commission headed by John Watson, esq, at the Red Lion Inn, Aynho, on 19 April 1639. One of them maintained that …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… between October and December 1635 at the White Hart Inn in St Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London. Kettle maintained that some of Haslewood's witnesses were indebted to Kettle and that they were …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Braunston, co. Leicester, esq v William Poulton of Lincoln's Inn, London, gent February 1640 Abstract Only Hastings's bond of February 1640 to prosecute Poulton survives for …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Sir Robert Bannester of Passenham, monument in St Guthlac’s church, Passenham, Northamptonshire. Abstract Bannester … manor which included lands belonging to the defendant's brother, Thomas Nicholls, whom he then had imprisoned for … enabling him to let his estate to other tenants. Bannester's conduct infuriated William Nicholls, who admitted to saying …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Heighmore complained that on 3 July 1639 in the Blackboy Inn in the parish of St Clement Danes, Middlesex, Bennet had … into another'. The quarrel arose at the end of an evening's drinking when Mr Thomas Delacourt called Bennett over and … was granted on 14 August 1639 and Dr Parry entered Bennett's defence on 4 February 1640. On 15 June Bennett was found …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… December 1638 - December 1639 Abstract The nature of Hide's complaint is unclear, but it was probably another case of … under way by December 1638 and the commission for Hide's depositions was ordered to sit at the Swan Inn, Axminster, 18-20 April 1639. Hide won the case and by …