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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Priors, Warwickshire, to commemorate his wife, Margaret and two sons (Photograph: Richard Cust) Abstract Clarke … Dugdale's antiquarian interests. By the outbreak of civil war, Sir Simon Clarke had debts of £1500. This was … (Exeter, 1900), p. 111; A. Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620-1660 (Cambridge, 1987), pp. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Claxton for security for a loan he was arranging for him and that he was provoked by Claxton calling him 'base drunken rogue' and striking him in the face. He also claimed Claxton's three … Shall I have it? King 'answered him in a faire sober and civil way, Yes, if you will give me securitie. Presently …
10th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of Sir Robert Anstruther, Sir George Abercromby and [Dr.] John Craig. Committed to: [f. 125] Sir George More … to the award. To have the Speaker to grant Edward Bois and Doctor Bois his warrant for these. Wednesday next to be … proportion. Where there are people, there must be a government. If the fishermen commit murder, shall they not be …
10th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Jacobi L. 2a. An act to enable William, Earl of Hertford, and Sir Francis Seymour, kt., his brother, to sell certain … no. The Serjeant to bring here any of Sir Thomas Gerrard's servants to be examined about their master, and his horses to … in temporal causes do proceed according to the civil law, which is a thing against the rule of the common …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Jacobi L. 1a. Act against transportation of iron ordnance. And to be read again tomorrow. Motion made about the great … EARLE reports the bill against simony, with amendments and additions, which twice read. Recommitted in the Committee … sic] Adventurers, first, trade will be thereby cast out of government and so being carried to all places and not kept to …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… - February 1639 Durham in 1610, home of Thomas Tunstall, a local mercer (From, John Speed, Theatre of the Empire of … he was absent in Durham at the time it was drawn up and had he known of it would have had it expunged. In October and November 1638 the court was due to hear the testimony of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that in August 1639 Barber had said that he was a cozener and that 'he learned nothing by hearing of sermons but to come home and cosen his neighbours'. Process was granted on 10 October … of divers persons, say that your petitioner was a cozener and that he is joined with his man to cosen him Barber; and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the top of the walled town. Abstract Coffin was 'accounted and reputed to be a souldier' since he had served as a … Pecocke and Nicholas Prideaux, esqs, and Dr Gwynn, the civil lawyer from the Court of Chivalry, at the inn of … that [Holman] remembereth, unless it were some of the servants of the house'. Coffin 'seemed to be displeased that …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Sherehog, London, grocer, Philip Bisse, William Hodson and Henry Dudley, all of London, vintners February - December … tavern, Cheapside, in December 1639 that Joshua Collin and William Wigg quarrelled Abstract The principal … whom Collin, a ward constable, accused of jostling him and calling him 'brokerly fellow or knave or Rascall', in the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… - November 1638 Abstract Colvile, a justice of the peace and former high sheriff, petitioned that at a public meeting at Wisbech between August and October 1637, together with the Bishop of Ely, he wrote … He maintained that Landen read one of the letters aloud and, despite being warned that Colvile was a gentleman, …