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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Maltravers for process against Beard, which was granted on 22 October 1639. Both parties entered bonds and on 27 February 1640 the witness John Usher testified for … meane and intend the scarlet coate Mr Underhill then had on'. Notes Underhill did not appear in the 1619 nor 1682-3 …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… that at musters to select men for the Scottish campaign on Bedfield Green, Suffolk, on 26 March and 2 April 1639, … Warner admitted that he had struck him with his cane, once or twice upon the shoulders. Process was granted on 13 June … drunck to his house and could neither speake for himselfe or his friend. Theise abuses happening before a great …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… the cause might be arbitrated by local churchmen, aldermen or gentlemen. This may have been the outcome as proceedings on 4 December 1640 mention an agreement between the parties. … 1. Brome's family had been reputed gentry for 100 years or more. 2. In August or September, Woodman gave Brome the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… June 1638 - February 1640 Abstract Warner complained that on 28 April 1638, he was riding with his servant in Ufford, … and that they were as good men as I and that they had four or five hundred pounds to spend rather then I should have the … 'Had you bene a gentleman you would not have used me soe, or such like wordes', but he and Snelling were found guilty …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… Who a devil made him a gentleman? He is a shitbreech.' On 20 October 1638 Filcott was ordered to attend the court and give bond. Watson's libel was presented on 5 December and his witnesses were examined on 9 and 21 February 1639. Filcott maintained that two of …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… maintained he had been provoked into these words because on 15 June 1637 Watts had refused to bind William Chambers to … who could be brought to testify untruths. 2. 'No faith or credit is to be given to the testimony of William Rutt; … may easily be drawne to depose an untruth for reward or gaine.' 3. Between May and July 1637, especially on 15 …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… terms outlined in Pye's initial suit.Process was granted on 19 November 1639 and witnesses were examined before John … his family had been gentry for up to 100 years. 2. On 12 or 13 March 1639, Pye said 'that the Weavers were base … blood and armes'? 'What are his armes as you know beleeve or have heard'? Did 'Walter Pye marrie Joyce Weaver daughter …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… a sharke, and livest by sharkeinge, and I am a better man, or as good a man as thou'. Green admitted that he had been … saying, 'Goe your way like a sharke' after West struck him on the face with his fist and called him 'a rogue and a … a sharke, and livest by sharkeinge, and I am a better man, or as good a man as thou', which words were provocative of a …
6th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Sole trade of drugs and distillation. Rested on this: that the merchant had a great wrong by this. That … recusants at home. [f. 112] Desire a committee of a few (4 or 5) to meet with their Lordships. SIR JAMES PERROT. 2 … that those which bear office shall do these within a time or else be within the danger of justly suspected, thinks the …
The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… by fighting his son near St Pancras Church, Middlesex on 11 October. Lunsford allegedly counterfeited a letter from … gent., with manie wrongs and disgraces, to fight with him, or elce to suffer himself to be disgraced by Mr Lunsford, and … of purpose to cast a disgrace upon the petitioner's sonne, or elce to draw him within danger of his Majestie's lawes and …