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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'There having been sondrie suits, betweene your petitioner and one Henry Heskett, who albeit he by his indirect courses and subtill practices hath much prejudiced your petitioner … both by slanderous defamations impaired his good name, and upon mere spleene indited your petitioner and two others …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 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 November 1638 the court was due to hear the testimony of the prosecution witnesses, and in February 1639 proceedings were continuing; but nothing …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… him to fight him, vilifying him 'with most foule language and termes of dishonour'. Process was granted on 27 October … Petition 'Your petitioner being a gent. nobly discended and of liberall educacon, and living in creditt and reputation in his countrey, by …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the top of the walled town. Abstract Coffin was 'accounted and reputed to be a souldier' since he had served as a lieutenant on the Cadiz and Isle de Rhé expeditions and commanded a Devon militia … own or depend upon another? How much were they worth in goods with their debts paid? How much were they taxed during …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… - November 1638 Abstract Colvile, a justice of the peace and former high sheriff, petitioned that at a public meeting at Wisbech between August and October 1637, together with the Bishop of Ely, he wrote … He maintained that Landen read one of the letters aloud and, despite being warned that Colvile was a gentleman, …
11th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of the yearly rent of £82 10s. to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and his successors forever out of certain manors, lands, … ready to assist him and make it good with our bodies and goods to the uttermost. MR. [EDWARD] ALFORD excepts against …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… H[enry] Poole Mr. Thomas Fanshawe Sir M[iles] Fleetwood And all that will come to have voice. Wednesday, Whitsun … [ROBERT] SNELLING moves concerning Wintertonness lights and the survey of coals, which takes from the merchants of … trade there. The clause of imprisonment, confiscation of goods, etc. The rivers Senega[l] and Sierra Leone give 3,000 …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Carlyle had said that he was as good a man as Constable and a few weeks later had declared that John was a 'gentleman … entered bond to prosecute the cause on Constable's behalf and in Michaelmas term a commission for examining Constable's … Initial proceedings 5/116, Petition 'Your petitioner and his ancestors have been and are descended of an ancient …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… housed the family chapel of the Constables of Catfoss and the south side that of the Constables of Wassand. … make a judgement; but this did not prevent local gentleman and yeomen reporting that, by local repute, John belonged to … and Stephen Thompson had good estates in lands, tenements, goods and chattels; George Crowe was the parish clerk of …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III
… Hayes ( Hese). Writ de intendendo directed to the mayor and good men of St. James de Beuvron ( de Sancto Jacobo super … of Philip de Albiniaco, Drogo de Barentin, Geoffrey Talun and Walter le Neve, whom the king is sending to bear the care … of the chamber, at the New Temple, London, of the goods of Hubert de Burgo deposited in the said Temple, which …