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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
… were examined by a commission headed by Sir Richard Buller and Sir William Wray on 3 January 1639 at Richard Rowe's inn, … master'. Others deposed that Stephens had indeed brewed and sold beer in large quantities and that he had been claiming the title of gentleman over a …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry III
… de Malo Lacu to the custody of the county of Northampton; and mandate to archbishops &c. to be intendant unto him. Jan. … marrying without his licence Isabel, one of the sisters and heirs of Eustace de Fercles, who was in the king's gift; … for permitting herself to be married to William de Fossa and afterwards to the said Hugh without licence. Jan. 5. …
19th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… 1624 L. 1. An act for the naturalizing of Abigail Little and William Little. L. 1. An act for incorporating the apothecaries of London, and within seven miles. Committee for the bill of [John] … Edwards. Counsel assigned: Serjeant Thynne, Mr. Hugh Pyne and Mr. Moore. [ Blank] L. 1. An act to restrain butchers …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Haskett called him 'base fellow, base conditioned fellow' and told him that he fed 'on sheeps henges or gathers; and challenged him to come forth for he dared to fight with him; and was not fearefull or affeard of him'. Fillioll also …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 1639. Browne had also said 'sure he is some trooper', and that if Gifford had a purse of money in a tavern 'amongst … his family had been ancient gentry for up to 100 years, and that he was sergeant major of Colonel Francis Hammond's regiment. Process was granted on 15 June 1640 and his three witnesses, including Barnes, were examined by a …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that Lawrence, who he claimed was 'a serving man and person of meane quality', abused him on 20 September … 1637. Lawrence allegedly accused him of slandering him and his wife and, 'when the petitioner little expected any such affront, …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… John Kelliawe accused Thomas Cullys of assaulting and abusing him at Thomas Dod's inn in August 1638 … Cullys of having struck him on the head with his fist, and having said 'thou art a base rogue and a base fellow, and … and doth himselfe in person, plough, mowe, dig, thresh and sand with other workes of husbandry, and soe hath often done …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… 'Thou bearest thyself soe high on thy Mr John Pierpoint, and thy M[aste]r soe highe on the earle of Kingston that men … been spoken, in the earl's absence, before local farmers and their wives out in the barley fields of Wadworth at … on Mr Copley's ground called the outmore flat in Wadworth sand field about this tyme twelvemonth in the afternoone of a …
3rd March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of certain Lands sold by Sir Thomas Beaumont, knight and baronet etc., to Sir Thomas Cheke, knight. Agreed, Sir … Crane, having taken the oaths, shall come into the House and receive the communion the next Sabbath; upon question. … who in town, but has not received the communion, and doubts will not, nor take the oaths. Agreed, he to be …