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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Draper complained that in the last six months Abdy and Robert Saunderson, a London innkeeper, had tried to … Abdy had said that Draper was 'a base pernitious fellow', and that 'your honor's Court Military was a base court', … Petition to Maltravers Draper was 'a gentleman of blood and armes, and that within six months last, without any …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… v Thomas Doubleday, Robert Walsh, Cassy Borrough, gents, and John Coxe, the Earl Marshal's messenger May - June 1638 … for seeking to fight a duel. The quarrel between Walsh and Doubleday had arisen when Doubleday tried to extricate … from a £100 bet on a horserace arranged at Hyde Park, and when Walsh refused to allow this, called him a liar. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1634 St Oswald’s church, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. The vicar and churchwardens certified that William Hurt was descended … assuming the arms of the Hurts of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and setting them up in the windows of St Helen's church, … court was sent to Ashbourne to enquire of Hurt's ancestors and on 2 June 1634 Nicholas Hurt of Ashbourne signed a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… MYLES Arthur Duck, LL.D., King's Advocate v Gabriel Myles and John Holland of London, gents June - July 1639 Christ's … was a cause of office in which Dr Duck prosecuted Myles and Holland for falsely displaying arms at Grocers' Hall and the church of St Martin Orgar during the funeral of the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1635 - February 1636 Philip Herbert, 4th earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, the Lord Chamberlain, copy of a portrait by … lose his place in the household of Henry, Prince of Wales, and more recently for failing to deliver on a promise to make … submission to Pembroke, confessing he had sent the letter and that it contained 'divers opprobrious, contumelious and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… duel with Sir William St Ravie, also involving Henry Percy and John Carey esqs. The testimony of Duck's prosecution … let us end it strucke Sir William St Ravie in the face and drewe blood of him, and holding the naked sword in your hand you said... two to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Advocate v Sir Henry St George, knt, Norroy King of Arms and John Philpot, Somerset Herald December 1638 - March 1639 … on 5 December 1638 against the Officers of Arms St George and Philpot for having granted arms without a warrant from … of the Colours a Griffin's Head erased per pale Argent and Gules gorged with a Ducal Coronet countercharged Mantled …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1637 - April 1638 Early Stuart Cambridge. John Backus and Simon Mountford quarrelled in the Harts Horn Inn in … Mountford had said of him that he was 'a base fellow and no gentleman.' Mountford claimed that Backus had provoked him by calling him 'a base fellow' and 'the son of a whore.' He also claimed that Backus was a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… his father displaying the arms of Underwood of Norfolk and also using these on his seal ring. On 7 June he was ordered to have the arms put out of his picture and his seal ring defaced, and also to disclaim his gentility at the Office of Arms, all …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… descent from Richard Woodall of Glenfield, Leicestershire, and maintained that he had had the escutcheon for thirty … signature of Cooke, but with the original arms 'scraped and razed'. Whether Lilly was simply asking him to renovate … did not begin Woodall's defence until February 1640 and the arms painters made their depositions in June. …