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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… April 1638 Abstract Wharton complained that during August and September 1637, on two separate occasions, in Penrith, Cumberland, and Warcop, Westmorland, Farer had said, in front of numerous witnesses 'that I was a base beggarlie fellowe, and noe gentleman and that I lived by cozening and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… of Yorkshire where Michael Wharton’s mare was paraded up and down ‘on purpose to disgrace me’ (Photo: Richard Cust). … Cliffe, The Yorkshire Gentry from the Reformation to the Civil War (London, 1969), p. 325; B. English, The Great … either killed at Naseby or Drogheda. P.R. Newman, Royalist officers in England and Wales, 1642-1660: A biographical …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… complained that Lunsford, later Lieutenant of the Tower and a notorious royalist swordsman, had intended to break the … that his son was at home in Chichester at the time and that his right hand was lame which disabled him from … of his outlawry in his petition. P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers in England and Wales, 1642-1660: A biographical …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… apothecary v Sampson Sheffield of Seaton, co. Rutland and gentleman pensioner to His Majesty March - June 1640 … for refusing to serve against Parliament in the first civil war. He was an active parliamentarian and after the … in 1649. Robert Ashton, Counter-Revolution: The Second Civil War and its Origins, 1646-8 (New Haven: Yale University …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… March 1638 - September 1639 Abstract White, whose father and grandfather were knights, complained that between January and March 1638, at the Bell Tavern in St Dunstan-in-the-West, … King, a plebeian, had said that he was 'a base fellow and a bastardly rogue, and a bastardly chitt, and begot by a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… North Crawley, Buckinghamshire, Seabrooke gave him the lie and 'bid him also to kisse his arse'. White also claimed that … 'a very wealthy fellow...of a most stubborn disposition and bo[a]steth of his abusing gentlemen' and that to 'incite' White to strike him, 'whereby he might …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Dod said that William confessed this on his deathbed and was now 'hanging in hell'. Wignall and Dod were examined before Lord Maltravers on 2 December … 1637, who referred the cause to Sir Thomas Bludder and John Angell, esq, to negotiate a settlement. Bludder and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Somerset, where the quarrel between Thomas Brooke and Clement Gutch began in March 1640. Abstract Brooke accused Gutch, a mercer, and William Brodripp, an alehouse keeper, of having, on 16 … saying that 'his two daughters were no gentlewomen and that he was no more a gentleman then one Stephen …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… a common pasture, Richard Williams threw stones at him and threatened to unhorse him, calling him 'villaine'. Process was granted on 24 May 1639 and Sir William entered bond; but nothing further survives. … (Exeter, 1900), vol. 1, p. 198; P.R. Newman, Royalist officers in England and Wales, 1642-1660: A biographical …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… hath dealt basely with me', repeating 'I am basely and scurvely dealt with'. When bystanders asked by whom, he … my Lord Willoughbie.'Process was granted on 16 July 1640 and Willoughby presented his libel on 10 October; but no … Middlesex Westminster West Indies Topics of the case civil war denial of gentility military officer Parliament …