188 Edoplhe v Prowde

188 EDOPLHE V PROWDE

Samuel Edolphe of Hinxhill, co. Kent, esq v Searles Prowde of Mersham, co. Kent, esq

November 1639

Abstract

Edolphe complained that when he had Prowde arrested for owing him money on 28 September 1638 in Wye, Kent, Prowde called him a 'base Rogue', in the presence of several people, and said that Edolphe's mother was 'a base woman'. Process was granted on 1 November 1639 and Edolphe entered bond to prosecute the cause; but no further proceedings survive.

Initial proceedings

2/169, Petition to Arundel

'Sheweth that Serles Proud, a gent very abusive in his ordinary conversation, being arrested at the petitioner's suite for money due to the petitioner, did upon 28 September 1639 in the towne of Wye in Kent, in the hearing of divers persons of good creditt, call the petitioner base Rogue, and said the petitioner's mother was a base woman, repeating these opprobrious words often times and offering your petitioner many other abuses and unsufferable provocations.'

Petitioned that Prowde be brought to answer.

Maltravers granted process on 1 November 1639.

Attached affidavit:

'Edward Reignalds of Hinxhill in Kent, aged fifty yeares, do depose that I herd Mr Serles Proude call Mr Samuell Edolph Base Rogue, and base drunken fellow, and Rogue, and that his mother was a base woman, and did offer at the same time which was the 28^th of September, last divers other greate abuses to Mr Edolph in the hearing of divers persons.

31^o Octob: 1639

Jurat Robt Aylett'

2/168, Plaintiff's bond

11 November 1639

Bound to appear 'in the Court in the painted Chamber within the pallace of Westminster'.

Signed by Samuel Edolph.

Sealed, subscribed and delivered in the presence of Humphrey Terrick.

Notes

Neither Searles Prowde nor Samuel Edolphe appears among the 1619-21 and 1663-8 Visitations of Kent, although both surnames had pedigrees mentioned: R. Hovenden (ed.), The Visitation of Kent taken inthe years 1619-21 (Publications of the Harleian Society, 42, 1898); G. J. Armytage (ed.), A Visitation of the County of Kent, 1663-8 (Publications of the Harleian Society, 54, 1906).

Documents

• Initial proceedings
  • Petition to Arundel and affidavit: 2/169 (1 Nov 1639)
  • Plaintiff's bond: 2/168 (11 Nov 1639)

People mentioned in the case

• Aylett, Robert
• Edolphe, Samuel, esq (also Edolph)
• Howard, Thomas, earl of Arundel and Surrey
• Prowde, Searles, esq
• Reignolds, Edward
• Terrick, Humphrey

Places mentioned in the case

• Kent
  • Hinxhill
  • Mersham
  • Wye
• Middlesex
  • Westminster

Topics of the case

• debt
• denial of gentility