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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of Aynho in September 1638 for wrongfully assuming the title and arms of a gentleman. Dr Merrick and Dr Roane … proceedings survive. [For a case brought by Hanslopp at the same time, see cause 275]. Initial proceedings 15/1p, … ancestors had been plebeians and not gentlemen over the past 200 years, and that Hanslopp for the past seven …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May - June 1634 St Oswald’s church, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The vicar and churchwardens certified that William Hurt was … of office commenced by Dr Duck in May 1634 following the recent Visitation of London by Sir Henry St George, … 180-1]. All were about displaying coats of arms to which the defendants were not entitled. In this case, Hurt was …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1636 Philip Herbert, 4th earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, the Lord Chamberlain, copy of a portrait by Anthony Van Dyck … prosecuted Pinchbecke for writing a scandalous letter to the Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain. It reproached … years before, apparently causing him to lose his place in the household of Henry, Prince of Wales, and more recently …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of office, promoted by Duck on 5 December 1638 against the Officers of Arms St George and Philpot for having granted arms without a warrant from the Earl Marshal to William Peere of Waltham, Kent, who was not a gentleman. The arms were Argent three Fusils in fess/pale/bend …
17th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… 17 APRIL 1624 SATURDAY, 17 APRIL 1624 I. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, PA, HC/CL/JO/1/13 [CJ 769; f. 147] … enabling of Sir John Ryves of Damerne near Blandford in the county of Dorset to take his remedy at the common law. … and of whom he had deserved better. Upon this, said the reporter, the Duke of Buckingham told them there was no …
17th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… 17 MARCH 1624 WEDNESDAY, 17 MARCH 1624 I. JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, PA, HC/CL/JO/1/12 [CJ 688; f. 47v] … portions to his younger children. L. 2a. An act for the confirmation of certain lands in c om . Wilts sold by … he would forthwith declare according to our advice. The reporter concluded with his own motion that the weight of the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Cambridge. John Backus and Simon Mountford quarrelled in the Harts Horn Inn in spring 1636 (From, John Speed, Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (1611)) Abstract Backus alleged that around the spring of 1636 at the Hart's Horn in Cambridge Mountford …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… drugster May - November 1634 Abstract This was one of the trio of causes of office commenced by Dr Duck in May 1634 following the recent Visitation of London by Sir Henry St George, … Herald. All were about displaying coats of arms to which the defendants were not entitled. In this case Underwood was …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… with Duck accusing Winchell, on 3 May 1634, of falsifying the genealogy of Peter Farnden in an ancient shield of arms, giving him the arms and genealogy of Sir Thomas Farnefold, a Sussex … be suspended from his position as licensed arms painter to the Earl Marshal. Winchell admitted the charge on 24 May and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Woodall for laying claim to a forged coat of arms in the libel of his Court of Chivalry suit against Richard … was charged with obtaining a false escutcheon that forged the mark of Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms. He claimed … Glenfield, Leicestershire, and maintained that he had had the escutcheon for thirty years. He also pointed out that it …