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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… one of the commissioners appointed to examine Thomas Cooke's witnesses (Photograph: Richard Cust) Abstract Wadham complained that at George Wadham's tavern in Liskeard, Cornwall, Cooke, a mercer, had several … 'did assaulte, strike and beate me, Thomas Cooke, upon the head and face and other parts of the body black and blew; and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Exton presented the libel on 21 February 1639 and Walcott's witnesses were examined by Basil Berridge, rector of … thereby to provoke and c.' 1638 No signature. Plaintiff's case Acta (4), fo.239, Letters commissory for the plaintiff … for the hearing. Acta (4), fos. 232v-234v, Plaintiff's depositions Taken before Basil Berridge, rector of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… accused him of being drunk, and then, before Waldegrave's company, struck him 'on the head divers times with a cudgel'. Warner, who had been … Page had earlier agreed to serve, but Waldegrave, Warner's lieutenant, then tried to question this in front of his …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'and fowly abused him by pulling him by the haire of his head and lyinge upon him'. They also called him 'idle … ordered to appear in court in December 1638 and Warner's libel was presented the following February. The case had … of 'the proceedings and sentence' of the Earl Marshal's court as 'against lawe'. In his speech before parliament on …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 688 WATERHOUSE V HOLTE Sir Edward Waterhouse of Lincoln's Inn, co. Middlesex, knt v William Holte of Holborn, co. … fifteenth-century hall and Tudor Old Buildings at Lincoln's Inn. Sir Edward Waterhouse was a resident of the inn, near … madde. And sometimes suddenly att his backe and upon his head first to assault and beat him, and after to run away …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Green was bound over to appear on 18 November 1637. West's witnesses, including Stringer, were examined by a … Francis West, gent, on 12 March 1638 at Edward Dickenson's Falcon Inn at Hemsworth, Yorkshire. The arbitration was … I, fo. 160, Libel 1. West was descended from a family that head been gentry for up to 300 years, and were kin to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… complained that Humberstone had slighted the Earl Marshal's warrant on 3 September 1638 in the King's Head Tavern, near the Old Exchange, London, and detained him …
6th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… HENRY POOLE reports the bill of levying fines in other men's names. Ordered, to be engrossed. Mr. Carew Ralegh sworn … of the House, whether this afternoon. Sir Francis Clerke's bill. This afternoon, former place. SIR EDWARD COKE reports … sit at the same time; and Mr. [Nicholas] Herman, my Lord's secretary, to attend at that time; and that any writings or …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… against the Scots, and the quarrel arose over Sheffield's refusal to pay the full sum of £11 that Wheeler requested … of a number of witnesses, he uttered the words in Wheeler's libel to which Wheeler retorted 'that he was as good a … Wheeler soe, but that Wheeler had invented it of his own head'.Wheeler denied this and named the man who told him so, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… was granted on 27 June 1639 and order was given for White's witnesses to be examined by a commission headed by Roger … and Thomas Stafford, esqs, 15-17 August in John Prestman's Saracen's Head Inn at Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire. Seabrooke's …