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Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… esq., to sell certain lands for payment of his debts and preferment of his wife and children. L. 1a. [ Blank] L. 1a. An act to make the lands … of the country whose cattle where heath is burnt can have food of grass, which by the burning of the heath is increased …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Nelson had called him 'a base beggarly fellowe, a rogue and a beggarly rascall', thereby provoking him to strike … According to Faldoe's witnesses, Peter Troveil, a painter, and John Warren, a Gray's Inn gentleman, Nelson's remarks … Griffin in Gray's Inn Lane. The two men started hurling food at each other and ended up throwing a candlestick and a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Fanshawe complained that Glanville had called him 'a knave and a rascall, and to have bidd one Richard Baker then present to tell him … he had engaged in years of lawsuits. Fanshawe won the case and Glanville was ordered pay a fine of £50 damages, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… complained that Needham had accused him of lying and called him 'a Knight of the Post'. Needham argued that … constant harassment in the King's Bench, imprisoning him and his sons, and refusing them bail. No further proceedings survive. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… for 200 years, it was rumoured that the fathers of Badd and Rigges had been tradesmen. Both parties were skilled in the use of the law and the suit in the Court of Honour was but the most recent … but Rowte 'could not perceive that he was distempered with drink.' 3. The words mentioned in his deposition were spoken …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Fowke claimed to be 'a gentleman of ancient discent' and a captain at the Isle de Rhé, Cadiz and in Ireland. Barnefield was a Staffordshire ironmaster, … then, after the said difference and reconcilements, drink a cupp or two of wyne in friendly manner the one to the …
22nd March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Montagu Sir Thomas Estcourt Sir Edmund Bowyer All lawyers and merchants that will come are to have voice. Wednesday, … Knights, burgesses of Essex, Middlesex, Hertford[shire] and London Sir John Savile Sir Maximilian Dallison Mr. … that Lovell set these men a-work, gave them 6d. to drink and they were to give him £6 if they did not choose him …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… St Peter's parish church. In January 1639 Thomas Fulwood and Thomas Greene quarreled at Richard Biddle's house in the … January 1639 at Richard Biddle's house in Wootton Wawen, and at Gray Mill, Warwickshire, Greene, the minister of Aston … 'Thou art a stinking fellow, a base condiconed fellow', and 'come out of thy dores if thou darest'. The following day …
24th February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… SIR EDWARD HOWARD elects to serve for Calne in Wiltshire, and relinquishes Wallingford in Berkshire. SIR EDWARD COKE … of the want of the poor for work and, consequently, for food; how dangerous it may prove he desires it may be … in a month could get no work, and that many had no other food, both about London and elsewhere, than parched peas and …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… felt he had been deceived of his money in a card game and claimed that while Matthews verbally abused him another … his lodgings for his sword after the initial altercation and returned to strike Needham, drawing blood and tearing his band. He maintained that Greaves would have …