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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… had ended up, allegedly, insulting the blue coat with a swan on the sleeve which the waterman wore as a servant to … The waterman answered that it was not a goose but a swan. Fox replied that waterman 'would prove himselfe a goose … sleeve was not a goose. Noe, said the waterman, It is a swan, and the earle of Dover's coate of armes. Said Fox to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… him soe'. Harris had raised the floodgates of the mill pool at Minster Lovell, which spoiled the fishing that Eure … there been any quarrelling over fishing in the flood gate pool at Minster Lovell, a part of the River Windrush? Did … to draw up and shut down the gates between the floodgate pool and millpond? Did Eure 'by force of armes against the …