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Two Tudor Subsidy Rolls for the City of London
… collector was Walter Plummer, who, with Henry Fawx, signed and sealed the indenture. Marginal notation: 'mediet.' …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Audley of Clavering, co. Essex, gent v Nicholas Maleing and Thomas Maleing, both of Langley Upper Green, co. Essex … said in the presence of several people that 'he lyed and was a base lowsie rogue'. Process was granted in June … descended of a generous family of gentry bearing armes and that within a month last past Nicholas Maleing and Thomas …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'reputed' to be worth £1000 a year, had spat in his face and insulted him in the Nag's Head, in Worcester, on 27 … the quarrel had begun when his wife claimed that 'if she and her husband had been well dealt withal they had had that … part to give a woman such words.' Dingley then 'made mocks and mouths, and grinded his teeth at him', and told him he …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… The market place at Newark in Nottinghamshire where Disney and Saxon quarrelled on a fair day in 1639, with St Mary … publicly said 'he cared not a fart for your petitioner and said a turd in his teeth'. When Disney urged him 'to use better termes and speeches', he repeated 'he cared not a fart for your …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… did favour none but knaves such as were like himself, and that he was a dishonest man, and that he would prove the same'. Dixon was a justice of the peace for Westminster and secretary to the Lord Privy Seal, the earl of Worcester. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that Killingworth called him a 'forsworne knave, and a base fellow' at a public meeting in Cherry Hinton, … Cambridgeshire. Process was granted on 12 February 1640, and a commission was appointed to examine witnesses on 15 … Gray's Inn, gent on behalf of Dockwra. Sealed, subscribed and delivered in the presence of John Watson. 2/35, Petition …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… apprenticed to Babington, a respectable London silkman, and had apparently been injured in the course of his work … 1639, but soon after Babington regretted his outbursts and approached Thomas Bavand, esq, a London based Chester … based in London, John, a soldier in the Bishop's Wars, and Edward, a linen draper, acted as intermediaries and a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1640 (Miniature by John Hoskins c.1635, copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London). Abstract Dorset complained that while Rigges and Thomas Badd were arguing at the Red Lion Inn, Fareham, … I for my Lord of Dorset, he is but a poore beggarly lord, and hath but one voice after twenty att Councell Board; and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Randall Minshawe, over getting a ride downstream to London and had ended up, allegedly, insulting the blue coat with a … 'You fellow with the goose on sleeve, you are too saucy and peremptorie', without realising that the coat was Dover's … declared that 'my lord of Dover was an honourable man and that he honored him.' According to Dover's counsel, Fox …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… being a fair day there) before divers gent of good fashion and qualitie'. Faulcon gave him the lie 'in a disgraceful and angry manner', calling him 'Will, or William Dowman, … been settled. Initial proceedings 6/89, Petition Dowman 'and his ancestors have been, and are, descended of an ancient …