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20th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… 2. An act for the naturalizing of Jacques de Best. Ordered to be engrossed. L . 2. An act for the making of the river of Thames navigable to Oxford. SIR WILLIAM COPE. To have the bill have a free passage. To have it committed. …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… May 1640 - January 1641 Abstract Despite both claiming to be from families that had been established as gentry for … of litigation between the two families and complaints to the privy council about ship money assessments. The … father had been high sheriff, was especially concerned to prove himself a better man than the sixty-year old Rigges, …
21st April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… in again. MR. SOLICITOR tenders the bill of subsidy. This to be first read tomorrow morning at 7 of the clock. Moved to send a message to the Lords to speed our petition concerning religion. …
21st February 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Upper House, declaring his Majesty had sent for this House to come up and present their Speaker unto him. Whereupon, Mr. … being set in his chair and the House settled, according to the usual custom, there was read, L. 1a. An act concerning … down declaring that his Majesty had sent for this House to come up and present their Speaker to him. And thereupon, …
21st March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… [21 March 1624] Lord Keeper's message from both Houses to the King. On this Sunday, 21 0 Martii, the Lord Keeper, … two Houses of Parliament understanding of a complaint made to his Majesty that the Duke of Buckingham in a narration which his Grace, by his Majesty's command, made to committees of both Houses, 24 0 Februarii, concerning the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… November 1637 - November 1638 Abstract Fowke claimed to be 'a gentleman of ancient discent' and a captain at the … Lawrence Lane, London, in early November 1637. According to Fowke, Barnfield said that he 'was a poore conditioned … my worst' at the Earl Marshal's court and challenged him 'to go to a fencing schoole and fight it out with him at …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Francis in his parish church during divine service, 'to the admiration both of the churchwardens and the whole … the king's servant and rode with his sword, desiring Cole to do likewise until he had given Francis 'a better … Francis petitioned the Earl Marshal that Cole be summoned to answer, but no further proceedings survive. Initial …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Hartell and Page's defence was that Freeman had sought to force them off their land at Weaver's close, threatening to shoot them and their horses and swearing that if it 'were … and as honestly bred as you'; and then when Freeman tried to catch him out by asking, 'Art thou as good as I am?', he …
22nd March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… for the naturalizing of Sir Francis Stewart. L. 1. An act to enable Sir Richard Lumley to make sale of certain lands. Inferior courts: tomorrow, 4 [o']clock, Committee Chamber. L . 2. An act to enable the master of the rolls to make leases of certain …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… years or thereabouts, wherein he hath always indevored to do his best service for his Majesty, to the contentment of his Majesty's said commissioners, one … a neighbor of your petitioner's, knowing the premises to be trew, maliciously and in disgrace of your petitioner, …