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Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Clarke, a servant to Robert Hall, brought to the bar and kneeling, was charged by MR. SPEAKER with serving an order and a process upon Sir Robert Brooke, a member of the House, … King's Bench Lady Blount Warden of Fleet Playing-card makers [ Blank] [f. 188] Inhabitants of Leighton in …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Lady [Joan] Jermy to meet 2 [o']clock, Exchequer Chamber, and to be reported first upon Monday next by Sir H[enry] … question, not to be committed. The proviso thirdly read and, upon question, passed. Robert Hall, that served the … the town seal was to be added to the cloth as also the makers'; and all this was done [f. 120] for the securing of …
23rd April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Sir Richard Burneby, kt., to sell the manor of Watford and divers pastures in Hollesworth in the county of Northampton for payment of debts and raising of portions for younger children. Moor-burning: … [f. 78v] An act for the good order and government of the makers of knives, sickles, shears, scissors and other cutlery …
25th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Ward's bill, former place. Northampton, Stafford, knights and burgesses added to the committee. Knights, burgesses, Northampton added to [Thomas] Cope's bill. And the Bishop [of] Coventry to have notice of it. Monday … 114] Sir Edward Conway being propounded to be one of the makers of the manifest, [MR. JOHN] SELDEN excepted against …
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
… a ten shilling piece from Kettle, he gave him the lie and called him 'a base shufflinge fellowe', between October and December 1635 at the White Hart Inn in St Botolph's, … that some of Haslewood's witnesses were indebted to Kettle and that they were attempting to use this case to threaten …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Combe Martin, Devon, 'that I am noe gentleman, but a base and ignoble person; and that my brother is but a crowd [i.e.fiddle] string maker; and that I was christened Tom unto which if I pleased I might …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… two actions against Grove in the High Court of Chivalry and Grove, in turn, brought at least two against Lock [see … he lost, as a result of which he had had to pay damages and perform a submission. Undeterred, in February 1638 he … in St Saviour's church, Southwark, Surrey, between March and July 1637, Grove had called his wife Susan Lock a scold, …
3rd April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… [CJ 753; f. 101v] Sabbati , 3 Aprilis 1624 L. 2. Butter and cheese. [ Blank] Committed to: Sir Edward Coke Sir Henry Poole Knights, burgesses of London, Essex and Suffolk, Middlesex, Chester, Wales, Wilts, Gloucester, … of the year. L. 2. An act for the order and government of makers of knives, scissors and sheers in the county of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… had challenged him for 'wearing his hatt before him' and denigrated the honour of knighthood, saying that he was 'a better man than hee that yeare, and as good a man as hee at all other times', adding that 'it … personal assistance to go in person with them to the soap makers in Exeter or some of them, and offered to show his …