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10th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Mr. Solicitor sent up to the Lords with the message he was to have delivered yesterday. MR. SOLICITOR reports … the same number of committees. Delivers in that note that he was ordered to bring in writing yesterday touching the … After had set it down, acquainted the Prince with it. He approved it and said it was true. This to be entered into …
10th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Tomorrow, to the committee for trade. The Serjeant reports he had found where Sir Thomas Gerrard sometime lies, viz. at … To send for the principal of Liverpool, who knew he was a recusant when they chose him. Ordered, the Clerk of … for naturalization have twice passed this House. That he, in modesty, has forborne to sit here. That Levinus Munck, …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… the law and against the statutes of 39 E. 3 and 29 H. 7. He would have a bill here passed for the establishing of a … or discourage the Merchants [ sic] Adventurers. But he fears if trade be thrown open and war come up, so that every man may send over a boat with cloth where he list, they will be catch [ sic] up apace where the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… v Henry Heskett No date Abstract Asheton complained that he had suffered 'slanderous defamations' from Heskett, which he had been forced to disprove at the quarter sessions. He claimed that Heskett had been fined £500 by the Duchy of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Sir John Claxton, claimed that Tunstall had written that he 'had degenerated from his gentility' in a replication … at the Lord President's Court at York. Tunstall claimed he was absent in Durham at the time it was drawn up and had he known of it would have had it expunged. In October and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… came to his residence on Sunday 1 September 1639, where he twice challenged him to fight him, vilifying him 'with … bravinge and challenging your petitioner to meet him if he durst; and this hee did two severall times the same day, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Cobb petitioned 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 … persons, say that your petitioner was a cozener and that he is joined with his man to cosen him Barber; and that he …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Coffin was 'accounted and reputed to be a souldier' since he had served as a lieutenant on the Cadiz and Isle de Rhé … and base fellow', giving him the lie and declaring that 'he would procure more friends in the Court of Chivalry than … been attempting to provoke him into striking him so that he could bring an action for battery at common law. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'that I was a base fellow, a cheating base fellow, and he would prove it', which words were provocative of a duel. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the choice of 'a quest man' or other parochial official. He also claimed that Collin had called him 'drunken fellowe, … forsworne fellowe, and idle base quarrelsome fellow' after he appeared as a witness for a Mr Deaves in a suit against … his claim on a coat of arms painted on a parchment which he told his fellow grocer, James Holiwell, belonged to him …