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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… fee for curing Mr Cooke who was dining with Robert Hale and Francis Goldsmith. When Gill demanded a £30 fee, Hale questioned his honesty and said that he 'was a rascall and should be pumped'. … a cause of complaint and provoking him to duell,' Mr Hale swearing an oath said, What a rogue is this, meaning Mr Gill, …
24th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… SIR EDWARD HOWARD elects to serve for Calne in Wiltshire, and relinquishes Wallingford in Berkshire. SIR EDWARD COKE … [f. 8] L. 2a. An act to prevent and reform profane swearing and cursing. Upon question, not to be committed. … be engrossed. L. 2a. An act to prevent and reform profane swearing and cursing. Upon question, not to be committed. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… two men. Grove brought at least two actions against Lock and Lock in turn was involved in two cases against Grove [see cause 385]. Grove, a justice of the peace and captain in the trained bands, appears to have complained … initially that at some time between the previous June and August at Guildford, Surrey, Lock had said before several …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… called him 'base fellow jackanapes, hoggard or hoggrubber' and coward and 'bid him alight from his horse'. This happened on St … of Staunton's deceased master, Richard Cartwright, esq, and he maintained Hanslopp had spoken ill of him for telling …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Hawley v Futter 287 HAWLEY V FUTTER Henry Hawley, Captain and Governor of Barbados, gent v James Futter of St Margaret, … Mary Woolnoth, London, that 'I was a base cheating knave, and that I had none to wayte on me, but a hangman'. Futter … not he but John Holland that spoke the words in the libel, and that Holland had struck him, and abused him. Futter also …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… V MICHELL Thomas Heber of Marton, co. York, esq v William and Henry Michell of the same, yeomen July - October 1640 … William Michell had said that he was as good a man as him, and challenged him to fight in the street outside Heber's … with a pike staff upon his head and wounded him sore, swearing he would have his life ere he stirred from the …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… behind. Upon question, the Clerk to have 30, his son, 10, and the Serjeant, 20. Upon question, all those which pay not … X Prince's leases Recusants X Simony Sabbath X X Swearing X Oxon. navigation [f. 226] X Supersedeas X Statute … J ove principium. Others are to redress and punish profane swearing [f. 201] and cursing, and the loathsome sin of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… said that he was a 'base fellow, base shitten captaine, and when he spake he did barke as a dogg against the moone', … of his behaviour when drunk. Hudson submitted to this and entered a recognisance for £100, but then in the afternoon, in the presence of Sir Thomas Bludder and Edward Saunders, esq, J.P.s, asked why it was necessary. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… had been involved in lawsuits against Hungerford's mother and father and had, allegedly, defrauded the local taxpayers of sums … by Broad over an eighteenth month period between mid-1637 and late-1638 in London, Compton-in-the-Hole, Gloucestershire …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Hertfordshire, Wethered assaulted him with a pitchfork and wounded his horse, vowing he would kill him if he hunted … J.P.s sent examinations in support of his petition and the Earl Marshal committed Wethered to prison in the … assaulted this petitioner with a pitchforke, vowing and swearing that if he came upon his ground, or that he found …